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Luxembourg (City)

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=== South ([[Metz]], [[France]]) (E25/A3) ===
Get the line 60 train from Luxembourg City station for EUR 2.00, or avoid the controller for 2 stops. Get off at the [[Berchem]] stop. There are 2 exits from the station. Take the closest one, do not don't take the stairs! and . And walk less than 2 km to some of the biggest motorway petrol stations in Europe! Take the first little path to the residential area (Rue Oscar Romero), pass a tiny roundabout and walk up towards the fields. Then you have a beautiful path through the fields straight ahead. You'll pass by generous walnut and apple trees, you'll have to climb over small cattle fences, and might say hi to some animals. Otherwise: Turn left when you leave the Berchem train station, walk down the road 5 minutes and the second main road on the right is Rue Meckenheck. Take Meckenheck up winding through a residential area all the way up to where it ends, at which point there is a big forest. (If you continue through the forest, you will arrive at the south-side petrol station, with cars heading back north towards Luxembourg or Germany) Turn right onto Du Bois, and follow it curving around to the left. You should hear the highway and pretty soon you will arrive at a bridge[https://www.google.ca/maps/place/49%C2%B032'40.2%22N+6%C2%B007'18.3%22E/@49.544506,6.119553,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d49.544506!4d6.121747?hl=en] that runs over the highway. Just before the bridge is the south-side petrol station, with loads of cars heading north towards Luxembourg city, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. Walk over the bridge and then walk immediately at the end of it go down and to the left towards highway, through the concrete pavement or stairs, and walk 50m alongside of it until the station. There was a lot of construction here in 2016 but you will find a fence where you can walk down. There are vehicles travelling traveling all over [[Europe]], and it's best to plant yourself just before the exit where you can maximise attention. Luck varies: one person waited 10 minutes at the petrol station exit but another waited a good 30 minutes before finding someone on their way to Metz.
You can also reach the petrol station by hitching from the roundabout that is located right at the start of the highways. Not an ideal place for cars to stop, but lots of people go in that direction.
== Hitchhiking in ==
Many people are driving pass Luxembourg without stopping. If your driver is using the A6 (from or towards Arlon, Belgium) you can ask them to leave you at the exit nr 4 (Luxembourg, Strassen). They will drop you at Route d'Arlon and can take the highway right back, and you just have one long street to Luxembourg city centre (you can take a bus or use the red lights to find a lift).
If you're coming from France through the A31 / A3 and the driver will drive on pass Luxembourg city, you can be dropped at Aire de Berchem. Walk pass the truck parking to the very end of the gas station where you'll find the gate. You can climb over at the edge of the bridge, by the bushes, to make sure you don't rip your pants. Then it's a 10 min walk, heading southeast, to Berchem train station, two stations away from Luxembourg city.

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