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'''Slovakia''' is a member state of the [[European Union]] as well as the [[Schengen Agreement]] with borders to , bordering [[Austria]], [[Czech Republic]], [[Poland]], [[Ukraine]] and [[Hungary]]. It is most of the time very easy to find a ride, waiting times are usually less than half an hour. Slovak people are incredibly friendly and will do their best to make you feel comfortable. Some will even invite you to have lunch with their family and/or have a drink with friends! Some, but not many drivers speak English or German, especially younger ones. Russian is more widely understood among older people, but not necessarily liked. It is not common from the for drivers to ask money for a ride. Hitchhiking in Slovak is called ''stopovanie, stopovať''.
Hitchhiking (and indeed all pedestrian access) is not allowed on motorways, but one can hitchhike from entry ramps or ask drivers for a lift at petrol stations. On the country's national roads, you can simply stand wherever cars are going slowly and put out your thumb. Use a card displaying a two-letter code of your destination town (see below in section "Number plates"), if your intended destination cannot be obvious to the drivers. It is not advised to hitch on an older national road which runs parallel to a newer motorway, because all longer-distance traffic uses the motorway (unless of course you only want to get to the nearest village). Hitchhiking in pairs of a man and a woman is the best bet: most successful and also secure.
* To the next gas station '''Na ďalšiu benzínku'''
* I will get down here '''Tu vystúpim'''
== West-East travelling ==
Slovakia is a small country. Because the country has many hills is mountainous, there are few major roads across the aren't many routes to go nor are they good/many highwayscountry. So The D1 highway, running along the main traffic stream is West-East and reverse. Therefore most north of the people use the D1 highway what country, is called the big northern waymain east-west road in Slovakia.
But as the new motorway R1 was finished the streams seperated. Sometimes they are called the northern way and the southern. They split near [[Trnava]] and join in [[Ružomberok]]. Going both ways there is always a part where there is no highway/motorway (After they will finish the [[Žilina]]-[[Ružomberok]] part this will no longer be valid. But they are not going to finish it at least the next 5 years.) but just a national road. For the north one it is the road 18, for the south it is the road 59.
