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It's a good place for hitchhiking, because two major motorways are crossing each other here: In east-west-direction, there is the [[A2 (Germany)|A2]] going from the [[Ruhr Area]] to [[Berlin]], and in north-south-direction, the [[A7 (Germany)|A7]] connecting [[Hamburg]] with the south of [[Germany]]. On both motorways, there is a big service area, that are easily reachable by tram.<br />

==Hitching out===== Heading West (towards [[Dortmund]]) === Take a tram to ''Königsworther Platz''. There is a wide road called ''Bremer Damm'', which leads to the motorway. There is only little space to pull over and most of the traffic is local, but at least during rush hours this works fine. At other times, it's probably faster to take the tram to ''Garbsen'', see below.It helps a lot to use a sign saying "A2 - WEST". Try to get a ride at least to ''Garbsen'', just outside of '''Hannover. ''' There is a huge service area. === Heading East (towards [[Berlin]]) or West (towards [[Dortmund]]) ===From the town center, take the tram no. #4 to ''Garbsen '' (the last station). Then transfer switch over to bus no. #126 to towards ''Waldschänke''. The last bus station is directly in front of a very big service area. From the central station, the ticket is EUR 2,70 and it will take about 30 to 40 minutes.There is a lot of traffic, you won't have to wait long.If you need to go westwards, just walk left, walk under the bridge and you'll see the service station at the other side.=== Heading North (towards [[Hamburg]], [[Bremen]]) or South (towards [[Göttingen]], [[Kassel]], [[Frankfurt]]) ===Take the tram no. #6 direction ''Messe/Ost'' and get off at ''Kronsberg''. Turn left into ''Wülferoder Straße''. After a ca. ~100 m, the Road road will head right, but there will be a little path straight on. Follow this path for ca. 1 km. It leads directly to the service area ''Wülferode'' on the [[A7(Germany)|A7]].

Get off at ''Hannover-Herrenhausen''. There is a tram station close to the motorway, where you can get into the town center in 15 minutes for ca. EUR 2 EUR.

=== Coming via [[A7 (Germany)|A7]] ===You can ask the driver, if he wants to take little detour over the '''A 37'''[[A37 (Germany)|A37]]. This will be 12 km more and he will lose about 10 minutes. If he doesn't want that, tell him to drop you at the service area ''Wülferode''. There is a little street leading to a tram station, but you will have to walk for 30 minutes.

There are two hostels in Hannover: An independent one for EUR 15/night ([http://www.hostelhannover.deindependent] one for EUR 15/) night and one of [http://www.hihostels.com/ hostelling international] for EUR 25/night. [[Category:Germany]]