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It took Emily and Roald about 30 minutes Take the metro to get picked up by a Turkish truck driver who brought us all the way to Passau, Germanystop ''Slivnitsa'' (Сливница). Take bus 54 towards ''Bozhurishe'' or walk northwest along the avenue ''Slivnitsa'' for 2 km until you meet the Sofia ring road. You can hitch 200 metres after the intersection with the ring road.
However, it took Jass 4 hours just to get to the border, and he had long, long waiting times all This road enters Serbia at the way to [[BelgradeKalotina-Dimitrovgrad border crossing]], despite how incredible hitchhiking is in the rest of the country. Try not to accept rides get a lift straight to places in the middle of nowhere. As alwaysborder, it helps if as otherwise you have may be stuck for a [[map]] to know what to expectwhile at inconvenient spots.
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'''Sofia''' ([[Bulgaria]]n: ''София'') is the capital and largest city of [[Bulgaria]], lying in the west of the country.
== Hitching in and around ==
Sofia has a ring road. Drivers transiting between Serbia and points further east in Bulgaria will go around the north of the city. If you are dropped off on the ring road, you can walk a few hundred metres to a bus stop and tale a bus to the city centre.
== Hitching out ==
=== East towards [[Plovdiv]], [[Edirne]] and [[Istanbul]] ===
Take metro and get to last stop called Младост 1 (Mladost 1). Walk north along Yerusalim street until you get to the main road Tsarigradsko Shose. You should see Carrefour shopping centre around. Then take bus number 5 direction Lozen and go with it until it leaves main road on a cloverleaf junction. Get off on the next stop and go back to the junction. You will stand on a motorway junction with directions north, east to [[Plovdiv]] and west to [[Sofia]]. Go down the ramp to direction [[Plovdiv]] and you will see some shops and bars where people stop next to the motorway. Try standing on the hard shoulder to get a lift or ask people there. Nearly all traffic there goes to [[Plovdiv]] or even further east.
=== West towards [[Nis]], [[Belgrade]] and [[BudapestSerbia]] {{E|80}} ===Find any underground/metro station (Blue line no. 1) and take the metro to the Slivnitsa (Сливница) stop (direction: Obelya - Обеля). When you get out, you will see a big crossroad - follow the direction out of the city. There are roadsigns that say [[Belgrade]] - that is the right direction. You can try to get a lift there but there are still too many local commuters passing. It is much better to take a bus no. 54 towards ''Bozhurishe'' and get off at the Republika stop (when you see Metro hypermarket). There is a petrol station and traffic lights so the traffic is pretty slow. (Take the north exit from the subway, the bus makes a left turn at the junction, before heading into the right direction, it doesn't stop at the spot you would expect it to stop.) If you don't take bus 54 it is walkable to walk for about a mile until there's a big space to pull over (about twenty minutes walking). Jass stood here for about 15 minutes until getting a ride to the point mentioned above. [[User:Guaka|guaka]] and Erga waited about 25 minutes for a ride with a truck to the [[Kalotina-Dimitrovgrad border crossing]].
=== Southwest towards [[Skopje]] ===
