Thessaloniki

<map lat='40.65355504328839' lng='22.928466796875' zoom='11' view='0' float='right' /> Thessaloniki is a city in Greece.

Hitching Out

West to Igoumenitsa

User Liva hopes someone will help to edit this because she can't really remember everything with bus numbers and so on but she wrote down what she remembered. Take the bus (#13, 52, N78) from the train station and say that you want to go to the bus station. At the bus station you will see the motorway going in your direction. Just walk across the road (roundabout) and to the exit to the highway. As she remembers there was a pretty good spot to stop for the cars too. In Igoumenitsa you can get a ride with trucks over the see to Italy.

Or, arrive by city bus to intercity bus station, catch bus #80 to end of line. Follow motorway signs and walk (approx. 2km) to motorway toll station.

north-east to Sofia, Bulgaria

it's relly easy. take the bus 27 from the center to it's end called "platia stavroupolis/stavroupolis square". then take bus number 85 and you're already on your way. almost any stop of this bus leaves you on a good hitch-hiking point, but i use the 19th stop, called "21st kilometer/ 21o chiliometro" which is right on a gas station on the way to Serres and to the bulgarian border (to sandansky, blagoevgrad, sofia). the road os E79 and it's not a highway, especially after the border. these city bus tickets cost only 50cents (that you don't even have to pay) and take you quite some kilometers out of the city towards all destinations.

south to athens

this is not so easy to find but not so hard either. you must go to the bus station called KTEL. busses 31, 12, 8 and 78. then you'll thake bus 80 to the village called "Malgara". there you have to ask and find the toll station. you'll have to walk about 2km to find it, but then it's very possible to get a ride even straight to athens.

Sleep

After a rainy day not wanting to hitch hike and Livas couchsurfing host flying to Israel she did not know where to go for her needed night sleep. It was poring down so she did not want to sleep outside. She asked the people on the train station if she could sleep there even though they where closed at night, and she could! She had security guards walking around all night and sleeping with her earplugs the guarded do wake me up one hour after opening, all people running around, herself sleeping like a baby. This is a tip anyway. It might be worth to tell you that she is a girl with a Swedish pasport witch might make it easier than for a boy.

not pay ticket for city buses

The tickets for the buses in the city are cheap. only 50cents. still you absolutely don't have to pay. if you speak to the controller in a foreign language (showing that you're a tourist, not an illegal immigrant!) they'll just leave you alone. if not, they first ask 30euros for the tax, you say you don't have. then they ask your id card, you say you don't have it with you and then they'll just give you a paper to note your name and address, where you can write any fake name. or even simplier you can give your real passeport and they are supposed to send you the bill to your country. it's 100% SURE that they will not.