Hey
When I need or want to give advice on hitchhiking from the UK to mainland Europe or vice versa I usually refer to this page on Digihitch:
Hitchhiking Into and Out Of The UK http://www.digihitch.com/europe27.html
It tells you that it is better to hitchhike to Europe or to the UK on motorway services: Maidstone in UK and Jabekke in Belgium.
However, these pages on the growing Hitchwiki resource mention Calais and Dover again as options to hitchhike:
http://www.hitchwiki.org/United_Kingdom http://www.hitchwiki.org/Dover http://www.hitchwiki.org/Calais
That's quite confusing to me. So, what is better? To hitch from the services or on the harbours. My guess the first. Would the Hitchwiki need to be edited on this?
Free bus from Dover to London
I just thought it would be useful for someone: I took the ferry from Calais (15:25, 19 euros) to Dover, and there was an Eurolines bus to London. I think you are supposed to pay for it after you arrive in London, but it was really easy to escape paying.
- I think, at Eurolines you are supposed to buy a ticket before you enter the bus. As the ferry is not an official bus stop, they might not have noticed, that you sneaked into the bus. Is that possible? Might be a good information. --MrTweek 10:52, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
Names of the Motorways
In the wiki I have seen the names of the motorways written in serveral forms: M1 (GB), M1 (UK) and M1 (Scotland). I think we should use one form for the whole country, but which? --GeorgDerReisende 23:37, 3 October 2011 (CEST)