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Bordeaux is encircled by the ringroad (''Rocade'' in french), a fast dual-carriageway bypass, with no places to stop and pick up hitchhikers. This makes leaving Bordeaux very tricky, although not impossible. It is best to hitchhike on the approach roads to the ringroad in the direction you wish to travel. It is advised to avoid going into the town centre.
 
Bordeaux is encircled by the ringroad (''Rocade'' in french), a fast dual-carriageway bypass, with no places to stop and pick up hitchhikers. This makes leaving Bordeaux very tricky, although not impossible. It is best to hitchhike on the approach roads to the ringroad in the direction you wish to travel. It is advised to avoid going into the town centre.
  
=== North towards [[Paris]] ===
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=== Northwards [[Paris]] ===
 
To reach the gas station on the ring road/rocade :
 
To reach the gas station on the ring road/rocade :
  

Revision as of 22:52, 16 July 2010


<map lat='44.8333333' lng='-0.5666667' zoom='10' view='3' float='right' /> Bordeaux is a city in the south west of France. It's the capital city of the Aquitaine region.

Hitching Out

Bordeaux is encircled by the ringroad (Rocade in french), a fast dual-carriageway bypass, with no places to stop and pick up hitchhikers. This makes leaving Bordeaux very tricky, although not impossible. It is best to hitchhike on the approach roads to the ringroad in the direction you wish to travel. It is advised to avoid going into the town centre.

Northwards Paris

To reach the gas station on the ring road/rocade :

Take the Tramway A, to "Gravières". Follow the street Rue des Gravières/Rue François Villon which is on the right hand side just before the tram arrives at the stop from the city centre. At the roundabout , take a left down Avenue de Paris. There is a small road parallel of this street in the industrial estate, take it (rue Jean Raymond Guyon). It ends to a roundabout but here is a small old pedestrian road. Take it. Cross the bridge that crosses the highway. From it, you can see two Gas station on different sides of the road. The fences are broken so you can walk easily to the furthest one away for the North (Paris, etc.)

Ask for going to the next gas station, just before "Saint André de Cubzac" if nobody takes the A10. At the next petrol station, there is a restaurant, so a lot more people.

For the south one can use the first service station seen from the pedestrian bridge.

South: Biarritz, Spain, Toulouse

The official advice is: Quai de la grave & Rue des Allemandiers (bus #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #28, #91, #92) but Carl has had more success at the roundabout where Quai Paludate, Quai Brienne and Rue Carle Vernet meet. Carry a clear sign indicating your direction (Biarritz or Toulouse work best, depending on your direction), and stand in the lay-by on the roundabout at the entrance to Rue Carle Vernet, so you catch the traffic from the preceding two junctions heading for the Rocade.

Amylin advises that this roundabout is also a region where prostitutes tend to linger, so even if you don't look like one and do carry a clearly-written sign, stupid horny drivers might try and pick you up persistently. Sometimes, they appear like "normal" drivers at first, but when you get to talking with them, you realize they only want one thing from you, and whether you want it or not. If you hitch here as a single girl, it's not too recommended.

Public transport

In the tramway, there are very few controls, but there is no way to avoid the control when it happens. Therefore, it's wise to travel with a valid ticket to punch in case of need.


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