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You can contact a local hitchhiker at +41 78 732 71 35 for accomodation or other emergencies, will help if I'm around.
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Take bus 27 in the direction ''Thônex-Vallard-Douane'' and get off at the last stop. Walk through the customs to France and stand at the end of the customs just before the cars speed up for the motorway. The position is very good, the customs officers are nice, speed is low, there´s space for cars to stop, all the traffic is passing through.
There is also a bus number 5 which leaves from the airport to Thonex-Vallard (the stop by customs) - maybe number 5? - just stay on until the final stop. This line is later joined by bus 25 which gets to the same place. A ticket costs CHF3.50 / E3.50but the distance from the city centre is around 3.5 km and is easy to walk- just get to Route de Malagnou and walk east until you get to the border and then follow the instructions above. Better use a sign as cars can go to various destinations from here. Aug 2018: Note that the above information might be before the schengen area was implemented. I don't think you are allowed to walk around the area where the motorway crosses the border. I ended up waiting on the swiss side just before the bus stops for bus routes 5 and 25 Aug 2019: Tried to walk through the border to hitchhike on the other side, but were politely turned back by the border guards.
=== West towards [[France]], [[Lyon]] or [[Annecy]] ===
*UPDATE (11-Aug-14): There's a risk of being stopped by bordercops in Switzerland when you walk across the border next to the highway in direction France and they may insist that you leave the highway. Alternatively you can cross the border by a little forest path outside the highway (it's on the side where the traffic goes direction France). Once you are on the french side of the border you can easily walk to the highway and start hitchhiking after the border passing.
Update:2018-09-13 We did it between the borders, a little bit before french one, the french customs showed us where is allowed. It worked so good!
If you want to try it from inside the city, then:
== Hitching in ==
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