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'''Thessaloniki''' is a city in [[Greece]].
== Hitching Out out == === East towards Kavala and [[Istanbul]] ([[Turkey|TR]]) {{European Route Number|90}} ===So many people have lost their hope trying This route is widely perceived to do thisbe difficult. The best and rather easy way of doing this is hitching with a Turkish truck. Here is how to do it. Take bus #27 from the centre (e.g. Kamara) and go till until the very end of the line. Switch to bus #83 and go a few stops until you see the highway. Get off when you see a JetOil rest area on the other side of the highway. Just follow the bus and go under the highway to get to reach the other side. Once you are there, rally the gas station personnel to help you. Show them your Istanbul (or Kavala or whatever) sign and ask them to tell you if they notice someone going to Turkey. Be prepared to convince the paranoid drivers that you are not wanted by the police and show them your passport. Getting a ride can take anything between one minute and five hours but this IS the way to do it (for me it took 15 minutes to get the ride --[[User:Astikain|Astikain]] 12:46, 25 September 2010 (CEST)). Do not even consider other small gas stations or thumbing up on the road. When you get to the border you might want to switch to a passenger car because the truck might could be stuck in the border control customs for a while. === West to [[Igoumenitsa]] {{European Route Number|90}} ===
Go to the train station, which is also the inner-city bus station. From here, take bus 8 KTEL (the KTEL are the blue and white buses) to Makedonia bus station. From there, you can catch the bus #80 to the end of the line, then follow motorway signs walking (approx. 2km) to the [[toll station]]. Or rather than taking bus #80, just walk across the road (roundabout) till you come to an [[on-ramp]] where, according to [[User:Liva|Liva]], is a a pretty good spot to stop cars.
In [[Igoumenitsa]] you can get a ride with trucks over the sea to [[Italy]].
=== North-east Northeast to [[Sofia]], ([[Bulgaria|BG]] ) ===It's really easy. Take the bus #27 from the center to it's end called ''Platia Stavroupolis/Stavroupolis square''. Then take bus #85 and you're already on your way. Almost any stop of this bus leaves you on a good hitchhiking point, but I use the 19th stop, called ''21st kilometer/ 21o chiliometro'' which is right on a petrol station on the way to Serres and to the Bulgarian border (to Sandansky, Blagoevgrad, Sofia). The road is E79 and it's not a highway, especially after the border. These city bus tickets cost only 50 cents (that you don't even have to pay) and take you quite some kilometers out of the city towards all destinations.
=== South to [[Athens]] ===
== Sleep ==
=== Camping ===
The university campus in Thessaloniki is just in the city centre and it's the perfect place to sleep in your van/tent/sleeping bag, because it's the only green place in the city and because the police are not allowed to enter the university! There are few guards but don't have the right to touch you. It's generally safe, though perhaps not suitable for a single female.
==Public Transport = Camp in the city center ===The university campus in Thessalonniki is just in the city center and it's the perfect place to sleep in your van/tent/sleeping bag. Why? Because it's the only green place in the city (!) and because the police is not allowed to get in there! There are few guards but don't have the right to touch you. About common criminality, it's generally safe. Maybe not suitable for a girl alone, but in general nothing to be afraid of.
== Free food ==
Thessaloniki is maybe perhaps the only place in the world where you can eat everyday for free so easily..! Next to the campus of Aristotles university, Egnatia street, after the crossroad with 3rd September street there is the university canteen. Ask anybody for "''fititiki leschi''/φοιτητική λέσχη". There you can find a free full meal twice a day. 12.00-15.00 and 18.00-20.00. These free meals are provided for the university students, but even if you're not one, ''you don't have to pay and you don't have to show a student ID or any document''. You just Just follow the queue, take the food and eat it. There's never any controlchecks. There's nothing to be afraid of, just try to look more or less like a student. I mean if you're 50 years old with a huge backpack and two dogs, maybe somebody will notice that you're not supposed to be there. Otherwise it's absolutely no problem, I have brought myself more that 20 times my guests from abroad to eat there and nobody noticed them. Only disadvantage is that it is closed on weekends, summer holidays and not-working days for the university in general.
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