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'''Bratislava''' is the capital of [[Slovakia]]. The city has one [[Bratislava Airport | airport]]. If you just pass the city (f.e. from Prague to Budapest) avoid at all costs to get droped on a petrol station in the city by a driver that goes to Bratislava itself. The road splits inside the city, the motorway is in the middle and the local traffic goes on a side road. Because of a wall there is no direct connection between the streets and the petrol stations are not on the motorway, so you would leave it and find only domnestic traffic. In this case you have to follow the hitchwiki advice to get to another spot and lose plenty of time or find a cosy place to sleep...

== Public Transport Hitching around ==Bratislava has a network of slow trams, buses and electric buses. The trams and electric buses are only at the eastern part of the city (East Danube side)

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== Hitchhiking Hitching out ==

=== North towards [[Brno]] or , [[Prague]] (D2) {{European Route Number|65}} ===

'''First option :''' There is a gas station directly on the D1 highway D1 in Bratislava. It's , near the AVION shopping parkcentre. You can take the Take bus 61 to near in the direction of the airport, thereand get off at the stop ''s a stop called Fortuny''. You can try either hitchhiking on the on-ramp or walking to asking drivers at the gas petrol station. It's exactly 750m away 750 m from the bus stop. There are a lot of trucks going by this on-ramp, because this is one of the industrial parts of Bratislava.[https://maps.google.sk/maps?saddr=Ivansk%C3%A1+cesta&daddr=Nezn%C3%A1ma+cesta&hl=sk&ie=UTF8&sll=48.173842,17.190685&sspn=0.008715,0.01929&geocode=FRAJ3wIdyEkGAQ%3BFWYc3wIdEE0GAQ&t=h&mra=me&mrsp=1,0&sz=16&z=16 Click here to see the map]

''The gas station on highway D1 could be good when hitchhiking towards Zilina. However, there were no many cars passing through this gas station as I was there, so I walked back towards the ramp keeping my thumb up and caught a ride then. There is some space for cars to pull over and they don't seem to mind even if you hitchhiked on the highway. Locals told me that only cops might mind but probably they'd just tell you to go to the gas station.  OH! and remember to press "stop" on the bus as it doesn't automatically stop on Fortuny. I ended up going to the airport and then coming back on the same bus....''  '''Second option :''' Take tram 4 or 2 to east until the end of the line going east, the a stop is called ''Zlaté Piesky''. Cross over the big road to your right and walk down past the Porsche dealership. Hitchhike on the highway just beyond the bus stop. Its not the greatest spot, but there isn't any other. The road splits into the E75 and the E58/E571 approximately 30 km east from here.

# get a bus ticket to Budapest for EUR 3(?) from the Student Agency on Obchodna Ulica. The place is, if facing towards the old town, on the left hand side of the street just before Postova Ulica, near the McD's/KFC and Slovak Pub. If you're under 26 don't forget to ask for the 10% discount.# Walk south over the UFO bridge and follow the pedestrian/cycle path cyclepath to the right. You will arrive at a bus stop on Einsteinova, standing at the front of the marked off lane will give drivers a place to pull over. The road splits shortly after, but both ways lead towards Vienna, so to catch all possible rides it's best to wait before the fork. It's not ideal as three lanes of traffic are moving quickly by. If you are unsuccessful, two bus companies operating between Bratislava and Vienna pick up right at that bus stop about every 15 minutes during the day. Also, there's an on-ramp from the bridge onto Einsteinova, where cars have space to pull over, [[User:Zenit|Zenit]] got a ride there within 15-20 minutes.

It is possible to sleep in many places around in Bratislava. You can try to sleep at the railway station but there is a chance that the guards will ask you either to leave or to show them a ticket by which you are going to travel so just tell them that you are going to Vienna tommorow but you haven't bought the ticket yet and you will buy it tomorrow. That should work. You can also try sleeping in the Sad Janka Kráľa which is located on the south side of the Danube river. It's a quite big park so that you should be able to sleep there without any problems. Another option is sleeping in the Pečianky les. Which is just , a large forest a bit to the west from of the Sad Janka Kráľa and . == Other useful info == There is a forest where is a lot of place to hide free wifi at the Julius Meinl café at MyBratislava and you at McDonalds. (You can camp sit outside and use the wifi from there without being noticed or disturbed, no need to go inside).

== Internet ==# McDonalds# Julius Meinl cafe at MyBratislava. Only on In the ground floor. You can sit outside if you want.# Many restaurants and bars display "free wifi" signs# By the river summer, there's an artificial beach (just sand brought by trucks) sponsored by this cellphone company where near the river that has computers you can use their computers for free, also the centre has free as well as wifi. (But it's only in the summer.)