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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:

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''leads directly onto A4 in both directions: Paris in the east, Metz/Strasbourg/Germany in the west. At least one bus (bus B) heads Heading down towards the motorway there is a traffic light switching very frequently, where ''TinqueuxRue Bir Hakeim'' which will run comes in from the lefthand side. Almost every car leaving Reims comes along here, so there is a very high density of cars passing by and stopping at the ''Avenue de red light. You cannot directly ask people, but with a sign and a charming smile, there is a good chance of getting picked up - I got a ride to Paris''in 15 minutes. At a roundabout  === Going west ([[Paris]]) ===The place is the highway ramp going on the {{Afr|4}} towards the west, at the bus exit number 22 called Tinqueux. First you will need to get to Tinqueux, a suburb of Reims. Best is to take it's own French route - but if you're walking then bus no. 8 towards Thillois and get off at this the stop called Millésime, the first stop after the bus passes above the highway. (For timetables and other ways to get there's only one, you can check the website of [http://www.citura.fr/ Citura], the local public transport company.) roundabout take 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 called ''Avenue de 29th Aout 1944''. A little way past what Google Earth points You arrive to a huge roundabout. From here, turn right and follow the blue signs to as A4, Paris until the exact spot of ''Tinqueux''next roundabout, from where the ramp goes on the highway. There is a street called ''Rue Charles Boucton''lot of traffic and no pedestrian sideways, so be careful to cross the road and the roundabout. Once you get On the ramp, there you will discover what you are looking is a nice spot to stop forthe cars.

<!:Got a ride from here in less than 10 minutes in May 2012 --You will see an enormous hitchhikers heaven - thousands of cars and trucks, supermarkets - McDonalds' and petrol stations. You may be able to get to [[ChinaUser:Smor|Smor]] ([[User talk:Smor|talk]] from a place like this.-->) 10:16, 3 November 2012 (CET)

2010-09-04 JK added: :I'm making this addition from the McDonald's mentioned above=== Going east ([[Metz]], [[Strasbourg]], after several hours (over three[[Lyon]], possibly four[[Germany]]) trying for ===Get a lift outside the Carrefour petrol station. And in theory yes this should be a great spot for picking up bus or a lift, but in my opinion it definitely isn't. I'm hitching to Germany and came here after reading the above recommendation PLUS having it mentioned as a possible pickup point by a potential lift (‘voie verte’ which was coming from Paris) which fell through (which I'd found on rideshare.co.uk. :Anyway, as I input this, I'm looking across is near some industrial zones in the carpark Eastern part of the Carrefour supermarket where city. Here, it takes about 20 trucks are parked 15 minutes to walk up; these guys don't seem to be stopping just for lunch or a piss break, more like the ‘l’auoroute de l’est’ for the day or even the weekend toll booth (today is Saturdaypeage) - so it could easily be tomorrow or the day after before any of them come good for a lift, and I ain't waiting that long.:The main problem here in my opinion is that cars and trucks exiting from the supermarket/petrol station/retail estate come onto the same piece of dual carriageway which leads up Be careful to walk on the slip road turning right for grass behind the A4 for eastern France and Germany beyondmotorway barrier. :This slip road turns through a tight arc with very little forward visibility. :This means from At the exit of the petrol station and truck stop to the A4 there's nowhere for any vehicles to stop with reasonable safety - anyone stopping here to pick up a hitchhiker is running serious risk of being shunted from behindtoll booth, which is why I would avoid this spot and find somewhere else. :But having talked to a few locals it seems there is no obvious other place in the locality to head for. :This view would seem to be confirmed by the fact that after several hours working hard waited 10 minutes for a lift . I saw no other hitchers AT ALL, kept asking drivers that were stopping where they were going with my voice and only three cars with German registration plates, not a great tally for anyone hoping to make it to Germany before nightfall. :And as for Chinese registration plates, fuggeddabboutitsign.Good luck/ Bonne Chance!