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==== Option 1 : Serways Raststätte Stillhorn Ost ====You need to get Take S-bahn S3 or S31 to '''Raststätte StillhornWilhelmsburg''' on the A1. It is easy to get there. Just take S3 or S31 to Wilhelmsburg and then bus 13 to the last stop at ''Kirchdorf-Süd'' (max. ten minute trip). Walk east along Karl-Arnold-RIng Ring for 200m200 m. Keep walking straight and cross over the small bridge. Turn '''right''' after the bridge on Altenfelder Weg and walk for ~500 meter ≈500 m to the junction with Stillhorner Weg. Turn left If you look around here you will see an underpass, go under the autobahn and walk for 400m, crossing under the motorway 400 m until you reach the path a small road to your left (Jakobsberg) just after the on-ramp. Walk 300m 300 m north along this path and you will reach the service stationback of the Raststätte.

[[User:footsore|footsore]] got a lift all the way to [[Michendorf_Süd|Michendorf Süd rest stop]] at [[Potsdam]], just outside [[Berlin]], within half an hour at 9am on a Sunday morning. It is very easy to hitch into central Berlin from Michendorf Süd. ==== Option 2 : Horner Kreisel ====

Follow the directions as above Take S-bahn S3 or S31 to ''Wilhelmsburg'' and then bus 13 to the last stop at 'Raststätte Stillhorn'Kirchdorf-Süd''; however, after crossing (max. ten minute trip). Walk east along Karl-Arnold-Ring for 200 m. Keep walking straight and cross over the little small bridge, turn . Turn '''left''' and walk 100m 100 m to the parking lot of the service stationRaststätte Stillhorn.

==== Option 1 : Autobahn Junction HH-Schnelsen ====[[File:Hamburg_hitchspot.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Hitching Spot at ramp ''HamburgTake U-Schnelsen'']]For going north on A7 motorway to mainland [[Denmark]], take the metro bahn ''U2'' towards ''Niendorf-Markt''. From there get out and ask people for the bus station (''Busbahnhof''). There take Take bus 5 or bus #191 until stop and get off at ''SellhopswegFreizeitbad Bondenwald''. Get out there, walk some 200m back to This is a bus stop with a bus bay and here all the traffic light. You'll see that the road going left follows the way to the motorwaypasses by. There's no footpath, so you have to walk along the green space next to the road. Might be tricky in winter, easy in summer. Just take care when [[hitchhiking a truck|trucks]] and cars coming from behind! After some 300m you're at the ramp. There's enough space for you to stand on, and it's easy for cars to recognize you and to stop. Have a look at the picture for this spot. Oh, someone mentioned that this spot might be illegal to stand on, but can you find an ''Autobahn'' sign in the picture ? ;-)

==== Option 2 : Raststätte Holmoor ====Take a ride or take the S-Bahn S3 or S21 to ''Eidelstadt'', and then A1 to ''Quickborn station''. It is possible to blackride. There Then take the bus 594 in direction to "of ''U A Norderstedt Mitte" '' and stop get off after the bus goes over the motorway (''Hasloher Weg '' stop). There you can maybe buy some flowers (a very nice old women offered us some information -okay it was wrong- and a rose). After getting off the bus, walk in the direction back toward towards the bridge (west) and you will immediately see a small road going left (the first one after the bridgeHasloher Weg). You will feel you are lost in the country side because after 200 metersm, this way doesn't look like a street anymore. NevermindNever mind, go ahead, go ahead go ahead keep going straight for another 400 m and on your right you will see a the petrol station. We needed less than five minutes to find a driver to Denmark :D '''Update june 2018:'''The area around the highway is under construction, so you cant cross it via the mentioned road above.You can follow the instruction above but get off at stop ''Hasloh'' instead of ''Quickborn'', go in direction of the train, turn right at ''Kirschenallee'', which becomes ''Dorfstrasse'', follow the road until you cross the highway, turn left at ''Quickborner weg'' and follow that into the woods until you reach Holmoor gasstation. Around 30-40 mins walking. Or you can go to ''Norderstedt Mitte'' instead and walk from there.

If you're planing planning to hitchhike towards [[Berlin]] on the [[A24 (Germany)|A24]], there's a bus stop near a big [[roundabout]] in the southeast of the city where it's possible to catch a ride directly to Berlin or at least part of the way. This spot is called the ''[http://horner-kreisel.hitchbase.com/ Horner Kreisel]'' and is a popular hitchhiking spot for many hitchhikers in [[Germany]]. Here you can stand and wait for a ride. This works fine. For hitchhiking to Berlin prepare a cardboard sign with a huge B written on it, which is the number plate sign for cars from Berlin and understood widely. It's a good spot.

The easiest way to get there is from the Station ''Hasselbrook'' (S1, S11). You leave the train in the direction of Steindamm, upstairs turn right and the after a few meters left into the Caspar-Voght-Straße. Follow this street 500 meters until the big crossing with Sievekingsallee. On the opposite side of the Sievekingsallee you'll see the bus-stop ''Caspar-Voght-Straße''. Ask for the road to Berlin if you are lost. Go further up the road and look for a bus stop with a large blue metal pole in front with lots of hitch-hiker traces :). It's just in front of the "Horner Kreisel" and is called "BAB Auffahrt Horn". You can also reach there by taking the U2 or U4 to "Rauhes Haus". This spot is actually great, because owners of turkish Turkish shop at the station noticed strange amount amounts of hitchhikers in front of their business. I think they are quite enjoying it. Just when I was about to start, they invited me in for a free turkish Turkish coffee and cigarette (I usually don't smoke, but this was kind of nice). They got some carton boxes and marker just for assistance to assisting hitchhikers, so they made one for me. Highly recommended (although it was two years ago, so I just hope they are still there).

Please note, some years ago they reconstructed the Horner Kreisel. Earlier it was possible to stand in the middle of it on an bus-stop, but now the bus-stop is located '''before''' the roundabout where the cars are driving pretty fast, and on the Kreisel the cars have no opportunity to stop.

== Resources Trashwiki & Nomadwiki == === Drink ===Free refills, pick up a cup and get high on fizzy drinks. At:* ''Mundsburg(U3)'' in McDonalds* ''Billwerder-Moorfleet''(S21) in IKEA === Free Internet access ===* At ''Hauptbahnhof'' in McDonalds.* Inside ''Mercado'' near Altona Station (between the Reformhaus Englehart and the escalator)* ''[http://www.buecherhallen.de/go/id/dy/ Zentralbibliothek]'' (Central Library) near Hauptbahnhof* In front of the Apple store, Jungfernstieg* As of April 2016, in "Am Borgweg" and "Mönckebergstraße" U-bahn stations === Callshops ===  === Public transport ===Blackriding is possible, albeit risky. Controllers are very frequent and often wear civil clothes, so they cannot be noticed before the doors are closed. And since they do not receive an hourly wage but a salary depending on how many people they catch, playing the "dumb tourist" will have no effect on them; they want you in their record. It is very easy to fool them however, they will first ask you for a national ID or a passport and if you tell them that you cannot produce either they will accept anything that has a (supposedly your) name and an address on it. They can't be bothered to call the police as that takes them a lot of time to arrive. Anything from a fake organ donor card, a bank account statement or a letter addressed to you will do - even if that's hand written.For routes of public transport check hvv.de or http://www.geofox.de/base/welcome.jsp