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<map lat="49.24369831954705" lng="4.027964472771019" zoom="11" view="0" float="right" />'''Reims''' is a beautiful city in [[Champagne-Ardenne]], [[France]] which took one anonymous hitchhiker over 8 hours , to hitchhike out the east of[[Paris]]. He tried all the roads imaginable and seemingly worthwhile until once lunch-time had already vanished into the past, he realised another approach was needed:
==Hitching OutHitchhiking out =====Towards all directions===Get a bus to a place just outside The three-, later two-lane road passing right in front of the city named train station (Gare SNCF) called ''TinqueuxBoulevard Louis Roederer''.At least one bus heads towards ''Tinqueux'' which will run along the ''Avenue de leads directly onto A4 in both directions: Paris''. At a roundabout in the bus will take it's own French route - but if you're walking then at this (there's only one) roundabout take east, Metz/Strasbourg/Germany in the road called ''Avenue de 29th Aout 1944''west. A little way past what Google Earth points to as Heading down towards the exact spot of ''Tinqueux'', motorway there is a street called traffic light switching very frequently, where ''Rue Charles BouctonBir Hakeim''comes in from the lefthand side. Once you get Almost every car leaving Reims comes along here, so there you will discover what you are looking for. You will see an enormous hitchhikers heaven - thousands is a very high density of cars passing by and trucksstopping at the red light. You cannot directly ask people, supermarkets - McDonalds' but with a sign and petrol stations. You may be able to get to [[China]] from a place like this.charming smile, there is a good chance of getting picked up
===Going East west ([[Paris]]) ===The place is the highway ramp going on the {{Afr|4}} towards the west, at the exit number 22 called Tinqueux. First you will need to get to Tinqueux, a suburb of Reims. Best is to take bus no. 8 towards Thillois and get off at the stop called Millésime, the first stop after the bus passes above the highway. (For timetables and other ways to get there, you can check the website of [http://www.citura.fr/ Citura], the local public transport company.) From the stop it is about 600 m of walking. Start walking back to where the bus came from, out of the shopping zone on rue des Ormisseaux, back to the big road. You arrive to a huge roundabout. From here, turn right and follow the blue signs to A4, Paris until the next roundabout, from where the ramp goes on the highway. There is a lot of traffic and no pedestrian sideways, so be careful to cross the road and the roundabout. On the ramp, there is a nice spot to stop for the cars. === Going east ([[Metz]], [[Strasbourg]], [[Lyon]], [[Germany, etc.]]) ===
Get a bus or a lift to the ‘voie verte’ which is near some industrial zones in the Eastern part of the city. Here, it takes about 15 minutes to walk up the ‘l’auoroute de l’est’ for the toll booth (peage). Be careful to walk on the grass behind the motorway barrier. At the toll booth, I waited 10 minutes for a lift. I kept asking drivers that were stopping where they were going with my voice and sign. Good luck/ Bonne Chance!
Buses B and S across town to Cormontreuil (1 ticket, 1.20 euros) but the drop off point was still quite a way from the peage mentioned above, bus T might bring you a bit closer but you'll still have up to half an hour to walk.
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