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Take the metro line 1, till the last station "Kifissia". From there, [http://osm.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=38.0738,23.8083;38.0728,23.8123 cross the park]. You'll find a busy bus stop, direction north, take the bus [http://www.oasa.gr/xpmap.php?id=p509&lang=en 509]
Get off the bus after 30 min, at bus stop "Neo Terma", at the end of Agios Stefanos, when it makes a U-turn and continues back to the city. [http://osm.org/directions?engine=graphhopper_foot&route=38.1550,23.8573;38.1549,23.8558 Walk 300m] to the parallel of the high-way. It's quite busy with drivers avoiding the toll station 3km away. You can either walk to that toll station, or wait for a short ride, who's gonna drop you there. The next gas station on the highways is pretty far (toll stations on the highway are closer), since the huge 18km away at "Sirios" complexwas closed (!). To help you make your decision, drivers are in better mood after eating than after paying tolls. Sirios includes a restaurant, a gas station and Jumbo store. If Sirios restaurant is empty at that time of the day, you You can also catch a ride at the point where drivers who avoided the tolls are getting back into the high way. Half of the rides go to Halkida, and the other half go further North. Decline rides that don't go in your direction, they will only put you in a worse spot.
For a place to sleep before [[Thessaloniki]], there is a [http://hitchwiki.org/maps/?zoom=15&lat=40.33&lon=22.58 24 hour rest area/gas station] in Korinos and it's called [https://olympusplaza.gr Olympus plaza]. It includes a restaurant with free wifi and showers. Nobody will disturb you if you sleep on the couches and workers of the restaurant often give food away.
Usually the controls are at the metro intersections (Syntagma, Omonia, Attiki, Monastiraki), where they hide behind the turns of the connecting corridors. If they catch you without a ticket, show them your passport, but don't pay the fine. Till now, nobody saw their fines redirected to their countries.
In nearly all stations, that are not underground you can also easily jump/climp the fence. In some underground stop points you can also jump easily small walls (for example 0,5m in Omonia) aside of the regular check points). Watch out for securities.
== Ferry from/to Athens ==
It is quite common to buy a ticket on a ferry to the first stop, but getting off later. Usually they don't check you, when you exit the ferry. But if so, it is always at the last stop.
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