Changes

Take the bus #27 from the centre to it's final stop, where also other buses stop(you need #85). Then take bus #85(A, B or M) and you're already on your way. Almost any stop of this bus leaves Ask to the driver to drop you off at a good hitchhiking point, but the nineteenth stop ''21o chiliometro'' (21st kilometre) is right on a petrol station junction on the way highway to Serres and (before taking the Bulgarian border (to Sandansky, Blagoevgrad, Sofiaold motorway). If you can't explain all this From there just walk to the driver just ask him to get off at Assirus. It's highway, there is turn, a not-so-bad spot, also there is a village near space on the side of the motorwayroad where some trucks stop, better ask them. When you ask the locals for the motorway use the word "autobahn" instead of "motorway" ot "highway". The road is E79 and it's not a motorway, especially after the border. These city bus tickets cost only 50 cents (that you don't even have to pay) and take you quite some kilometres out of the city towards all destinations. [Update: getting off at Assirus has not proved a good idea, it's quite difficult to reach the new motorway from there. A kind local took me there on unpaved roads, and after I had to climb over a fence and descend on a rough path...]