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== Hitchhiking Out ==
=== West towards [[Paris]] (A4, ) ===
There's a bus that takes you all the a way to a highway gas station. However, it runs only once an hour on weekdays, and only if you telephone-call them on weekends and holidays. The call-for-bus scheme involves registration and you have to call one day before, so you're probably better off riding the L3 bus to Woippy (a busy line) and walking-hitchhiking the D4 north-west if it's Sunday. Get off when it crosses the highway and the gas station will be staring straight at you. Hitchhiker [[User:Cagatay|Cagatay]] went there all the way on foot from Metz and it took 3 hours.
On normal days, take bus 106. Get off at '''''Champ Banal''''' (ask the driver to announce the stop for you). From there, walk the same way the bus left, towards the highway almost up to the very intersection and right before it take to the right onto a dirt road on the side of a field. Walk this dirt road alongside A4 and you'll see a service station around 500 meters ahead.
[https://lemet.fr/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/P106.pdf Bus 106 PDF timetables and map] (figure out which station is near you with this)
From ''Gare SNCF'' (the main train station) or ''Place de la République'' take the bus number 8 or U to '''''Technopole''''' (both stop next to lake Symphonie - ask the driver). From there walk to Grigy (part of Metz). Once in Grigy, keep on walking along D955 outwards the city center (follow the signs to Strasbourg). The road goes slightly uphill on top of which there's a roundabout right before the short bridge over the motorway to Nancy, then another roundabout. Stand just right after the second roundabout (one hitchhiker tried three times there and never had to wait for more than 20 mins).
If you go to Germany make a sign for Strassbourg and then get off at the [[péage|peage]] which is about 30 km away. You can also make a sign saying A4 Est - Peage
==== Option 2 ( [[Saarbrücken]] ) ====
This spot: next to the bridge of Rue du Général Delestraint over A4 [https://goo.gl/maps/wNDAwkvffQQwk1pH6]
If you use a sign saying "A4", make sure the driver is not going north towards Paris (learned the hard way).
Try to get a ride to one of the rest stops on the A4. ''[[Longeville Sud|Longeville Sud]]'' is the biggest on the way (with free wi-fi and showers), from there, you will find many truckers going towards Saarbrücken.
=== North, West or South ([[Luxembourg]], [[Paris]] or [[Nancy]]) ===
