Hitch-hiking in Andalucia
Hitch-hiking in Andalucia
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!
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!
- RichardCoeurdeLion
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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.
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
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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
Happy days
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...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.
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.
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