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=== West towards [[Sevilla]], [[Malaga]]All directions {{European Route Number|5}} ===

Walk to ''Puente de San Rafael'' "El Arcangel" Shopping Mall, and from there walk across Escultor Sebastian Cuevas street. Passing a plane (San Rafael Bridge!) on your right, and then to ''Plaza de Andalucia''. From therethe football stadium, you will see a traffic circle and signs that divide the road towards [[Madrid]], turn to the right left and [[Malaga]], [[Granada]] and [[Sevilla]] to ''Avenida de Cadiz''. Use the right sidewalk, and in 500 metres you will see a Repsol petrol station.  You can try here or walk another 500 metres to reach another Campsa one. From one just wait on the side of boththe road, try right before traffic lights. If you are heading to find [[Granada]], hike a car to Sevilla or Malaga. It is possible early in little bit further onto the morningfreeway, in the afternoon-evening as there will be is a lot of local very wide shoulder and traffictends to move slowly. Try the option of "Next petrol station on  Be careful because in Spain to hitchhier in motorways and its entrances is forbidden, so do not get too close to the motorway" if you want to avoid problems. If you are going to [[Madrid]], [[Granada]] via Jaen, or "La Carlota"[[Jaen]], you can ask for a town 30 kilometres away from Cordoba. You can reach both gas ride to the petrol station by bus (line 9, "Huelva" stop)near the prison. Calle Huelva is paralell Is a very very good place to get a long ride to Avenida de Cadizwherever. === West towards [[Sevilla]] {{European Route Number|5}} or [[Malaga]] === ===== Option 1 =====See "All directions" above ===== Option 2 =====

Walk Early in the morning there will be a lot of traffic going outside Cordoba (in 2016 this wasn't really the case), but it decreases as it is getting late. In the afternoon/evening, almost all traffic will be local.>> Seriously. I started at 9:00 which was apparently already too late in the day. If you get desperate, walk about 1 km more down a bridge and you will reach an industrial estate (<not sure where this is). Try to find the entrance to "El Arcangel" Shopping Mallthe motorway, make a good banner and try from there walk across Escultor Sebastian Cuevas streethere. Passing a plane Consider to write "Proxima gasolinera" (!next petrol station) on at the back of your rightdestination, to increase possibilities. Remember that in Spain, to hitchhike in motorways and then it entrances is forbidden. Take your time to understand traffic flows, since the football stadiumestate is chaotic. Considering all this, you will see be strategic to choose a traffic circle and signs that divide the road good place. === East towards [[Madrid]]{{European Route Number|5}}, to the left and [[MalagaJaen]], [[Granada]] === ===== Option 1 ===== See "All directions" above ===== Option 2 ===== Go to Plaza de Colon and find the line E bus stop. You have to go to the prison stop, and not all the E buses reach this place. From Monday to Friday the one at 2pm and the one at 7:45pm are OK, and at weekends you have up to six buses a day to there (have a look to the [[Sevilla]http://www.aucorsa.es/uploads/GaleriaFicherosPublica/Lineas/Tabla_Horarios_Linea_E.pdf timetable] ). To ensure, ask the driver whether her/his bus reach the prison("¿Este autobus llega al centro penitenciario?"), and if not, ask for the next that do ("¿Cual es el proximo que llega alli?"). The bus will cost EUR 1.10. Use the time in the bus to make a good banner with your destination, you will use it in a while. When you leave the bus, with the prison at your back, walk to your right to reach the motorway. Once you are there, cross the bridge over it, and in the round about at the other side, if you turn to your right, you will see two lanes in front of you, separated by a fence: The one at the rightof the fence is the motorway exit (ignore it); the other one, at the left of the fence, is a service road. Walk across it for 1.5km to reach a petrol station, and do show your recently made banner, since all the traffic in this lane comes from the station you are going to, and if you are lucky you can save some time and energy.

Be carefull because If you have or make friends in Spain Cordoba, ask them to take you to hitchhick in motorways and its entrances the petrol station near the prison. To leave Cordoba from "scratch" is forbiddendifficult, so do not get too close and there are very few buses to reach the motorway prison. And if you want to avoid problemsfind the right people, they will be helpful with you.

If ===== For any option =====In the petrol station, spend one (perhaps two) hours to find a long ride, at least to Madrid if you go there. It is a very good place to hitchhike, and many cars and truck are going to [[Madrid]], [[Granada]] via Jaen, [[Jaen]] or [[Almeria]]the north of Spain. After this time, if you can ask for a ride feel like that try to the reach another petrol station near the prison, but '''do''' avoid any ride to Montoro. Is There is a very very good place to get a long ride bullshit petrol station there, in nowhere, and if somebody takes you there you will spend hours to whereverleave.