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'''Motorway exit for Brussels'''
Follow the Route d'Arlon to the entry onto the A6/[[E25]]. This is a walk of about 4km from the town centre. You can partially use bus 7also just take the Bus 28 and hop off at Hondseck, or the Bus 22 and walk from Maternité (no need for a ticket :) ). From Cars can pull over just before the traffic lights, or at the sliproad you . You can get a ride straight to [[Brussels]], but if that fails, or to the above mentioned Capellen stop gas station ('aire de Capellen') , which is just about 10km down the road, and from there you can get rides to about anywhere in [[Belgium]] and the [[Netherlands]].
'''Service station for Liege and the Netherlands'''
=== South ([[Metz]], [[France]]) (E25/A3) ===
Get the line 60 train from Luxembourg City station for EUR 2.00. Get off at the [[Berchem]] stop. There are 2 exits from the station. Take the closest one, do not take the stairs! and walk less than 2 km to some of the biggest motorway petrol stations in Europe! 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. So don't do that unless you're giving up!!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. Walk over the bridge and then walk down and to the left towards 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 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.
Get off from bus on the bus stop "Plantin" (few meters before this bus stop is Shell petrol station). Go straight to rond-about and then turn left. Few meters from rond-about there will be place where you can easily hitch-hikke (bus stop, rarely use).
On the opposite side of this place there is Auchan Drive so it's easily to find.
== Hitchhiking in ==
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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