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Alternatively, you can take a local train from the station in Mestre to Padova for around 2 Euro. It takes 40 minutes and will put you in the center of Padova. From there, see the [[Padova|article on Padova]]. The petrol station/truck complex is huge and busy, a great place to hitch from in either direction.
=== East towards [[Trieste]], [[Udine]], [[Slovenia]] ===
If you are already in Marghera, see above.
(You might want to try taking bus #14 towards the motorway.)
Update: Location of Agip station is correct. Via Vallon has indeed a lot of turns. GPS with OSM (open street map) map (free to download on their website) helped us. In June 2015 on our way from France to Asia, my girlfriend and I hitched there for three hours until we gave up (the only time it happened in weeks of HH). Few cars and almost impossible to catch the attention of drivers. Knowing Italian would have helped to do some active HH. Police came twice to the station, saw us but did not interact.
To Slovenia: the most efficient way is to take a train to the train station Dolo, located in the middle between Venezia and Padova. From the train station You walk for about 40-50 minutes to the village called Arino, and once You get there You will see the petrol station Arino Est on the motorway A4, that will take You straight to Slovenia. Tip: between Venezia and Slovenia, the last petrol station where You can switch drivers is Gonars, from where You must find a direct ride to Slovenia. At any other petrol station between Gonars and Slovenia You will waste your time and likely get stuck. So from a technical point of view, to Slovenia from Venezia You have two options: either get a direct ride from Arino Est (very easy in the mornings between Monday and Friday between 06:00 and 09:00 when all the trucks leave), either get two rides, first to the petrol station Gonars and from Gonars to Slovenia. If it is too late to make the trip and youu want to leave the day after maybe is wiser to camp and rest, You can take the train to Ceggia, which is a tiny village near San Donà Di Piave, and from the train station of Ceggia You must walk towards the petrol station Calstorta for about 1 hour. The good this about this is that along the way between this train station and the petrol station there are plenty of fields with nature so You could camp without problems and rest until morning. (Thanks Adrian(o) for the info!)
=== South to [[Greece]] ===
