Hitch-hiking in Andalucia

[switch007]

Hello everyone, my first post

Can anyone advise me about hitchhiking in andalucia (malaga province)? Is it a common thing?

It's just that neither my friend nor I drive and I would like to see some of the smaller villages, but buses are very awkward and infrequent.

Can anyone give me any advice?

Thanks!

[Ama]

I wouldn't be to optimistic about this. You do see people stopping and picking up people at the bus stop, but it is always someone from the 'pueblo' picking another local up.

Hitchhiking may take you as long as waiting for a bus. Nowadays buses do tend to keep to times.

[RichardCoeurdeLion]

Never seen anyone hitching, and sadly if I did I wouldn't stop. This is despite promising 40 years ago when hitching across europe, that if I got a lift having waited for hours, that I'd never pass a hitcher by again.

[Kathy]

Apart from the Traifa / Algercias area hitchhiking isn´t common in Andalucia.
Buses however are very inexpensive.

[RichardCoeurdeLion]

Just noticed.

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Who remembers

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[switch007]

muchísimas gracia a todos!

[pwwm]

Only just seen this post and agree that people just dont hitch hike except for the locals going down to the coast. Locals pick up locals nobody else.

[hillybilly]

I never ever picked up hitchhikers in the UK but I did pick one up here. You so rarely see anyone hitchhiking...and he was quite cute and carrying a guitar so I thought, why not?! I suppose he could have been a mad axe murderer with an axe in the guitar case...

[Kathy]

The last hitchhikers I picked up, were a couple ( male and female) of medics working in a hospital in Wales and they had a task for Charity, of who could arrive in Africa first by hitchhiking, I don’t know if they won, but I gave them a lift from Sotogrande to Algercias.

They had huge professionally printed signs about the charity.

They had been waiting for a long time on a very busy road, in general there is a reluctance to pick up hitchhikers. It’s a shame in a way as there are so many interesting people on the road, with so many stories to exchange.

The press have highlighted the scariest mad hitchhiking stories, movie makers have also depicted them and there it is, the hitchhiking "industry" has almost completely diminished.

[RichardCoeurdeLion]

Yes it's a shame it's all gone pear shaped. As a student I reguarly hitched from London to Brum and up to Saffron Walden. Met many interesting folk. One summer hitched Brum to Stockholm and back. One lift was from Helsingborg to Stockholm, about ten hours. I also travelled round most of new zealand that way.

Happy days

[anis]

...me too, Rick, London to Coventry was my route and I would have been lost without hitching.
I would never have got home for the hols. It was really easy to get a ride back in those days, down the motorway and people were kind, lorrydrivers being my favs, salt of the earth.
Never ever travelled as far as you though. I wonder if Brum to Stockholm would be so easy nowadays ??
We would stop for people here, going back to the original post, but you rarely see anyone hitch.

[RichardCoeurdeLion]

I remember you Anis.

Newport Pagnell services summer 68.

Lorry stopped for me.

Driver then noticed you and you pinched my ride.

All is forgiven, I got home in the end.

[Gees]

Just got back from two weeks based in Competa drove up and down mountains on quite a few days to coast, did not see a single hitcher. you wound'nt want to walk far or wait around in the heat ?

[anis]

Ah...Newport Pagnell, Rick the cheese sarnies !
Sorry though, you were there two years before me, so it wasn't me who nicked your ride I was Summer of 70 - a hippy chick !