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|country = Switzerland
|map = <map lat='46.95694118331635' lng='7.447013854980469' zoom='13' view='0' float='right'/>
|pop = 123,000141'660 (31. Dezember 2016)
|plate = BE
|motorways = {{European Route Number|25}}, {{European Route Number|27}}, [[A1 (Switzerland)|A1]], [[A6 (Switzerland)|A6]], [[A12 (Switzerland)|A12]]
'''Option 3: Grauholz'''
Take the S9 from Bern Hauptbahnhof to the end stop (Unterzollikofen), then walk over the fields eastwards to the rest area "Grauholz". It's all in fairly walkable distance and besides, probably a pretty lovely walk in the spring and summer months due to the sunflower fields. The may be controls in the S-Bahn. Take a picture from the map with your camera, it might come handy.
=== South-West towards [[Lausanne]], [[Geneva|Genève]] via [[Fribourg]] or [[Yverdon]] ===
== Sleeping ==
There is a ''wagenplatzWagenplatz'' by the E25 north of Bern, outside Bethlehem. You can get there taking a bus to ''Bethlehem b. Kirche'' or by tram 8 (check times at www.cff.comon google maps). The nearest train station is ''Bümpliz Nord'', one station away from ''Bern Hauptbahnhof''. Walk up Eymattstrasse, past the bridge that goes over the motorway, across into a nice woodland. Take the first footpath on the right and keep to the right at the following forks. Eventually you´ll see lots of beautiful vans and trailers. People are very friendly and welcoming. There are two guest spaces. The coordinates are 46.960324,7.392554
If you go straight down from the Hirschengraben (close to the train station) following the tram -tracks, you will find a small park on the right side after a few blocks. It's a good place for sleeping out.
There is an emergency sleeping place called [http://www.sleeper.ch Sleeper], where you can get a bed for 5.-, breakfast included. But they only accept people in an emergency, not people who actually could afford a hostel bed. Check-in times are from 10pm-1am and you can stay till 10am. Be there soon enough, especially in winter time. You can't make reservations.
== Internet ==
If you need to use a Computer for a shorter time: visit a Library. The most of them have Computers free to use but limited in time (1hr or so), but you can always ask to extend (no garanty). In the National-Library ("Nationalbibliothek", Tram #8) you just need to ask the Person by the Computers (not the person in the entrance) for a Code.
There's a free internet café at Monbijoustrasse 16. Follow the tram lines of #9 south out of the center and find the Internet Cafe Power Point on your right hand side. The place is just for the unemployed and poverty-stricken, but if you're a penniless traveller, they'll likely let you use one of their machines for half an hour. [EDIT. Summer 2017. NEVER mention you are a traveller, hitchhiker or whatsoever. The moment we told the guy of the Power Point that we were hitchhikers he considered us to be tourists and mentioned that we were just pretending to be poor. AVOID these words by all means and ALWAYS say you live in Bern for long-term]
== Public Transportation ==
Bern's system of buses and trams can freely be used without ticket. Checks are rare is verry good and involve inspectors fanning out from one specific stop checking every vehicle that passesverry dependable. The inspectors Inspectors can often be spotted as they wear black pants and red or grey shirts, and of course they have bags/bum bags/etc. If you don't have an address in Switzerland, you don't need to worry about being caught because there is no way you can be made to pay a fine, just show your ID and talk with them. If you do happen to have an address in the country, lie, flirt and bargain your way out but don't show ID. Often the inspectors can be appeased by buying a Ticket from them or at the Ticket-machine.
== Other ==
'''If you need to fix some Gear you have two Options.'''
'''Hangout in Bern'''
If you want to Hangout, even if you dont consume anything, visit the Reithalle in Bern. DONT talk or buy anything from Drug-Dealers which hang out sometimes in Front of the Center. If you show them that youre not interested, they dont bother youand youre fine. If its hot just ask People for a "Freibad" (free swimming bath) or look out for People which are swimming in the River and join them (its a local sport to swim in the river. Just watch out and ask where its ok! Dont spring "somewhere" in the river.
unknown: "Author Advices represent a personal-BEWARE people from the StadtNomaden. StadtNomaden is a 'Wagenplatz'(which is kind of a wagon-village, people living in caravans) that rotates evey six months from one place to the other. We knew most of them but some of them proved to be very dangerous bastards. Beware something else: in whole Switzerland drugs consumption is quite wide spread. You need to watch out, because many of them lose their heads. We had a horrible experience, so watch out with these guys."