Karlskrona

Karlskrona is a city Sweden.

Hitchhiking out

E22 West towards Malmö/Helsingborg/Göteborg

Take bus nr. 5 (towards Nättraby) from the city centre (Kungsplan) price 20 kr/2 euros. Jump off at the stop "Motellet". I have been standing at this bus stop with a sign, 2 times and have never had to wait more than 45 minutes. I use to have a sign saying Sölvesborg or another town on the way beacuse sometimes people doesn't stop if you write Malmö because it's so far away. There is not so many service stations along E22 and some of them are off the motorway (in Karlshman and Kristianstad for example) but it's better to stand there than along the road. If you are going to Göteborg make sure that the driver is gonna take off on the exit towards Göteborg because there is no service station before it. It use to take me 5 hours to hitch between Karlskrona and Malmö.

While hitchhiking north toward Emmaboda we were going between two gas stations with a sign. We had no luck whatsoever there and stood there for half a day. We finally gave up after getting the advice to walk the road up north and stand after the roundabout instead. This worked and after about 30 minutes we had a ride. So if you're going north, passing the roundabout to get cars from other directions and ones that are going in the right one is definately an advantage compared to the gas stations. Another thing we learned there is that at about 20:00 there are ferries coming into Karlskrona which results in some trucks stopping to fuel at the gas stations. But we had no intentions to stay that long to find out.