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'''Bordeaux''' is a city in the south west of [[France]]. It's the capital city of the [[Aquitaine]] region.
== Hitching Out out ==Bordeaux is encircled by the ringroad (''Rocade'' in french), a fast dual-carriageway bypass, with no places to stop and pick up hitchhikers. This makes leaving Bordeaux very tricky, although not impossible. It is best to hitchhike on the approach roads to the ringroad in the direction you wish to travel. It is advised to avoid going into the town centre.
Bordeaux is encircled by a ring road (''rocade'' in french), a fast dual-carriageway bypass, with no places to stop and pick up hitchhikers. This makes leaving Bordeaux very tricky, although not impossible. It is best to hitchhike on the approach roads to the ring road in the direction you wish to travel. It is advised to avoid going into the town centre. === Northwards North towards [[Tours]], [[Paris]] ===To reach the gas station on the ring road/''rocade '':
Take the Tramway A, to "Gravières". Follow the street Rue des Gravières/Rue François Villon which is on the right hand side just before the tram arrives at the stop from the city centre. At the roundabout , take a left down Avenue de Paris. There is a small road parallel of this street in the industrial estate, take it (rue Jean Raymond Guyon). It ends to a roundabout but here is a small old pedestrian road. Take it. Cross the bridge that crosses the highway. From it, you can see two Gas station on different sides of the road. The fences are broken so you can walk easily to the furthest one away for the North (Paris, etc.)
For the south one can use the first service station seen from the pedestrian bridge.
=== Southwards South towards [[Biarritz]], [[Toulouse]], [[Barcelona]] ([[Spain]])===
The official advice is: ''Quai de la grave'' & ''Rue des Allemandiers'' (bus #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #28, #91, #92) but [[User:Carl|Carl]] has had more success at the roundabout where Quai Paludate, Quai Brienne and Rue Carle Vernet meet. Carry a clear sign indicating your direction (''Biarritz'' or ''Toulouse'' work best, depending on your direction), and stand in the [[lay-by]] on the roundabout at the entrance to Rue Carle Vernet, so you catch the traffic from the preceding two junctions heading for the Rocade.
