The other spot isn’t so good now because the majority of people in the vicinity are Portuguese cars that come to the gas station for cheaper fuel. Asked around and got incredibly lucky, a ride all the way to Irun with a French/Portuguese man. Don’t know what the alternative would be, maybe at the border crossing works better
Pretty empty on a Monday morning, asked around and found someone going to a town near Vilar Formoso (fluent Portuguese). If you’re coming from Guarda center it’s a 90 minute walk with some fence-hopping and train track-crossing
Seems like, in the reverse of everyone else, the spot at the entrance of A1 near Encarnação didn’t work for me after an hour. I walked to the gas station and got a ride in 5 minutes