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By the way - the second petrol station is bigger but not really on the highway. So try the first one after '''Zaragoza''' if your driver doesn't go far.
 
By the way - the second petrol station is bigger but not really on the highway. So try the first one after '''Zaragoza''' if your driver doesn't go far.
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Barcelona --- Succesful hitchike after 3 hours ---
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I first went to this round-about like intersection and stayed exactly after the first road sign saying BARCELONA - on the first lane. I stayed there for 3 hours and the closest succes was some guy shouting out the window 'Where do you want to go' in spanish because I didn't have the sign posted and I was just signing by hand. This was completely useless because he just went with 80kms/h so I didn't have time to respond.
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In my opinion spanish people do NOT hitch hike and tend to make fun of people who do.
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Anyway, the roundabout intersection is here:
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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Spain&sll=41.662974,-0.886288&sspn=0.035267,0.104628&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Zaragoza,+Arag%C3%B3n,+Spain&ll=41.666276,-0.879979&spn=0.00888,0.026157&z=16
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Then I got pissed off and considering the previous reviews about bus 28/29 I said I'm going to try something 'new' so I just walked randomly to this place:
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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Spain&sll=41.662974,-0.886288&sspn=0.035267,0.104628&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Zaragoza,+Arag%C3%B3n,+Spain&ll=41.677277,-0.851325&spn=0.00111,0.00327&t=h&z=19
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You can get on Av Alcalde Francisco Caballero with bus 44 until the intersection with Ronda Hispanidad and then walk all the way up on the bridge towards the Nord Este Autovia junction.
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That whole area is an industrial site so there are a lot of trucks passing by and the chances are bigger with them than with normal cars. In the same time the problem with that junction is that trucks don't have place to stop but the guy who picked me up just stopped in the middle of the road so apparently that is not a big deal for _some_ of them at least.
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As I found out from the driver, the best hours are around 10 AM and 6-7 PM because there are generally 2 shifts of transporting merchandise between zaragoza and barcelona.
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I got picked up at 6.30 PM
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He also told me almost all merchandise trucks are leaving from Mercazaragoza which is a little bit to the north from the junction I've hitchiked from, and that it's way better to go there and ask the drivers.
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Mercazaragoza is here:
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http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Spain&sll=41.662974,-0.886288&sspn=0.035267,0.104628&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Zaragoza,+Arag%C3%B3n,+Spain&ll=41.686101,-0.858436&spn=0.005224,0.020449&t=h&z=16
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He said any city in Spain should have a Merca<name-of-the-city> where the trucks get loaded with stuff and that from now on I should go directly there.
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Hope this information is useful to anyone in the future
  
 
=== Southwest towards [[Madrid]] ===
 
=== Southwest towards [[Madrid]] ===

Revision as of 02:02, 13 March 2010

Zaragoza is the capital of the state Aragon, in Spain.

Hitching Out

East towards Barcelona, France

A general problem is that lots of people take the National Road next to the highway because it's free. There it is not that good to hitchhike because there aren't as many petrol stations.

The bus #28 is not the best choice to hitchhike out of Zaragoza. You will get to a kind of good looking point with a petrol station and a red-light before the highway but you will soon figure out that not even 10% of the cars go on the highway. Most of them just cross it over on the bridge. Now Fabzgy would rather try his luck with the bus 29 and get of as close to the cross of the city highway.

Wladi tried the bus28-thing: It really doesn't work! Better to follow the "Ronda Hispanidad Z-30" (Wladi hasn't tried yet - finally he took the alsa.es-bus to Barcelona) to get to the highway access.

By the way - the second petrol station is bigger but not really on the highway. So try the first one after Zaragoza if your driver doesn't go far.


Barcelona --- Succesful hitchike after 3 hours ---

I first went to this round-about like intersection and stayed exactly after the first road sign saying BARCELONA - on the first lane. I stayed there for 3 hours and the closest succes was some guy shouting out the window 'Where do you want to go' in spanish because I didn't have the sign posted and I was just signing by hand. This was completely useless because he just went with 80kms/h so I didn't have time to respond. In my opinion spanish people do NOT hitch hike and tend to make fun of people who do. Anyway, the roundabout intersection is here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Spain&sll=41.662974,-0.886288&sspn=0.035267,0.104628&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Zaragoza,+Arag%C3%B3n,+Spain&ll=41.666276,-0.879979&spn=0.00888,0.026157&z=16 Then I got pissed off and considering the previous reviews about bus 28/29 I said I'm going to try something 'new' so I just walked randomly to this place: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Spain&sll=41.662974,-0.886288&sspn=0.035267,0.104628&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Zaragoza,+Arag%C3%B3n,+Spain&ll=41.677277,-0.851325&spn=0.00111,0.00327&t=h&z=19

You can get on Av Alcalde Francisco Caballero with bus 44 until the intersection with Ronda Hispanidad and then walk all the way up on the bridge towards the Nord Este Autovia junction. That whole area is an industrial site so there are a lot of trucks passing by and the chances are bigger with them than with normal cars. In the same time the problem with that junction is that trucks don't have place to stop but the guy who picked me up just stopped in the middle of the road so apparently that is not a big deal for _some_ of them at least. As I found out from the driver, the best hours are around 10 AM and 6-7 PM because there are generally 2 shifts of transporting merchandise between zaragoza and barcelona. I got picked up at 6.30 PM

He also told me almost all merchandise trucks are leaving from Mercazaragoza which is a little bit to the north from the junction I've hitchiked from, and that it's way better to go there and ask the drivers. Mercazaragoza is here: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Spain&sll=41.662974,-0.886288&sspn=0.035267,0.104628&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Ronda+Hispanidad,+Zaragoza,+Arag%C3%B3n,+Spain&ll=41.686101,-0.858436&spn=0.005224,0.020449&t=h&z=16

He said any city in Spain should have a Merca<name-of-the-city> where the trucks get loaded with stuff and that from now on I should go directly there. Hope this information is useful to anyone in the future

Southwest towards Madrid

To hitch Southwest towards Madrid you are best to catch a bus towards the airport, which stops at a large shopping plaza. You can get out here and try to hitch from an on ramp to the A2, but you are better to walk along the side of the A2 for about 2kms until you find a large 24hr Gasolina-Restaurant. From here it is easy to approach drivers for a lift to Madrid.

Trivia

The official charity project from FC St. Pauli football club ran a charity hitch-race from Hamburg to Zaragoza from the 23rd of August on to the EXPO 2008 with the topic Water and Sustainable Development. See also the viva con agua website.

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