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===Experiences===
 
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During the [[abgefahren hitchhiking race 2010]] some teams had major problems getting away from Villach to Solovenia and from Rasthof Feistritz in particular. Also, the on-ramp Faakersee didn't work well for them. The Villach experience was so traumatizing for some of the teams that they made the new figure of speech "to have a Villach" (german "einen Villach haben") - if you had a very unlucky or bad day - and now trying to establish this phrase among the hitchhikers jargon.
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During the [[abgefahren hitchhiking race 2010]] some teams had major problems getting away from Villach to Slovenia and from Rasthof Feistritz in particular. Also, the on-ramp Faakersee didn't work well for them. The Villach experience was so traumatizing for some of the teams that they made the new figure of speech "to have a Villach" (german "einen Villach haben") - if you had a very unlucky or bad day - and now trying to establish this phrase among the hitchhikers jargon.
  
 
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Revision as of 12:26, 30 June 2010

<map lat='46.605' lng='13.8678' zoom='11' view='0' float='right'/> Villach (Slovenian: Beljak) is a city in Austria near the Slovenian border. It is an important spot on the direct connection between Germany and Kranj and Ljubljana (German: Laibach) in Slovenia and the Croatian coast. (For example most of the numerous people that go for holidays to the Croatian coast pass here.)

Hitching Out

South towards Slovenia, Ljubljana

To the south there is a motorway going through the Karawanken Tunnel over to Jesenice (German: Aßling) in Slovenia. Apart from that there is also the old road over the pass.

One possibility is catching a ride towards Salzburg to the next gas station Feistritz. Plenty of cars stopping there into BOTH directions (north and south).

But the best is to go from the city center almost directly to the east along Faakersee-Bundesstrasse (Ludwig Walter Strasse, then Maria Gailer Strasse) over the river and before the fork to the Sud-Autobahn there is a bus station where you can hitchhike and cars can stop and pick you up.

North towards Salzburg, Germany

To the north there is the Tauern-motorway going to Salzburg and Germany.


Experiences

During the abgefahren hitchhiking race 2010 some teams had major problems getting away from Villach to Slovenia and from Rasthof Feistritz in particular. Also, the on-ramp Faakersee didn't work well for them. The Villach experience was so traumatizing for some of the teams that they made the new figure of speech "to have a Villach" (german "einen Villach haben") - if you had a very unlucky or bad day - and now trying to establish this phrase among the hitchhikers jargon.