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*** If you dont wanna don't want to stand at the roundabout where the road is momentarily experiencing roadworks and the lanes have been reduced we just found out that you can walk onto the first gas petrol station from the roundabout. Its just a bit more than 2km and you can start hitching right on [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=metro+dom+joao+II,+vila+nova+de+gaia,+portugal&daddr=41.1162456,-8.6073042+to:Unknown+road&hl=en&geocode=FaxvcwId6q18_yk_Hei00mQkDTHO6jAWa1xOEw%3BFVVicwIduKl8_ymBCBysLXskDTHgckG0vesAEw%3BFVspcwIdOMd8_w&mra=dpe&mrcr=0&mrsp=1&sz=17&via=1&dirflg=w&sll=41.116058,-8.605481&sspn=0.003734,0.006899&ie=UTF8&ll=41.102784,-8.601093&spn=0.003735,0.006899&t=h&z=17 a gas petrol station on the motorway]. Just walk down the hill for 2km as indicated on the map, then you cross the motorway through a tunnel. Walk up a smaller hill for 200m until on your left there is a spring and a smaller sandroadsandy road. On both sides of the sandroad sandy road there are two wild gardens. On the end of the road (heading to the motorway) up comes a house on your left and a door on your right. The door leads to the gasstation petrol station framed by a 1,.80 metre high fence on top with barb wire. The fence has already been repaired quite a bit. After 50m you come to another metal door which leads you onto the gas petrol station. It can be opened with a little rusty wire on the right - just pull very hard. Otherwise you can always shout for somebody to open the door. (august August 2011)
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Going South can be hard, even when you start from within the nearby city of ''Gaia'', which is just across the Douro River. The best spot in Gaia is probably a roundabout, just after the last metro stop (and ironically, just past the main street that leads to the motorway). Keep walking straight along this main street, stay to the right as it drops down and becomes the motorway. You'll see a bridge connecting the two sides of the road that don't become motorway, and just past this: a roundabout, which also has a part leading to the motorway. This is an okay spot to stand, even at night, with plenty of room for cars and trucks to pull over.
Rua da Palmeira, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
=== North towards [[Braga]] and [[Spain]] ([[Vigo]], [[Santiago de Compostella]]) ===
'''Option 1'''
Take the Tram/Train to São Frutuoso (less than 2 Euro). Walk the ''Rua Prof. Antonio Marques'' until the end and you'll arrive at a gas petrol station right next to the motorway to Vigo/Spain after appx 800m.''Note:'' There is a fence around the whole gas petrol station, almost impossible to climb. To ring the bell and ask for entrance is a bad idea. Walk along the fence until the bridge where it's easy to climb over (January 2012). Try to be unwatched climbing the fence, the gas petrol station is privatisizedprivatized. I got kicked out in January 2012...In February 2012 i I got dropped off on the other side direction Lisbon and had no problem at all staying at the gas petrol station. Just make sure they don't see you enter the gas petrol station "illegally".--[[User:Wukk|Wukk]] 18:14, 28 February 2012 (CET)
'''Option 2'''
