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Good times to hitchhike

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'''Sunday''' morning until noon seems the worst time to hitchhike in [[Europe]], and many other parts of the "developed" world influenced by Christianity (the [[United States of America|US]], [[Australia|Oz]], [[New Zealand|Kiwiland]] and [[Canada|Canadialand]] come to mind). Cars are full of families, with a grumpy wife on the side and not too many working people on the road. It usually gets better in the afternoon, when people are driving back from their weekend trip alone. Sundays during extended weekends due to religious holidays (e.g. Easter) are even worse; make sure to start early enough and reach your destination way before the evening hours, or you'll be stuck by extremely low traffic, esp. along German highways.
On the other hand, on Sunday afternoon and early evening it is possible to catch fast & long lifts since many people visit their family, wife, husband boy/girlfriend who life live far away during the weekend and have to return for work on Monday morning.
In [[Israel]] people work on Sundays so you'll be fine, but Shabbath is a horrible day for hitchhiking there since religious people are not driving at all (and they're usually quite skilled at [[picking up hitchhikers]]).

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