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Hitchhiking from Lyon to London

About 25 h 07 min of hitchhiking — roughly 1502 km in 12 ride(s), including about 8 h 27 min of waiting by the road. These figures come from rides hitchhikers logged on this map, not from an estimate.

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Step by step

  1. Get from Lyon to a hitchhiking spot near Lyon — 1.7 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.
  2. Hitch 34.3 km (21 min) from Lyon to Autoroute du Soleil, Limas. Expect around 28 min of waiting here. 4 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  3. Hitch 141.4 km (1 h 25 min) from Autoroute du Soleil, Limas to Aire de Beaune-Merceuil. Expect around 36 min of waiting here. 4 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  4. Hitch 350.4 km (3 h 30 min) from Aire de Beaune-Merceuil to Chilly-Mazarin. Expect around 14 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  5. Walk 4.7 km (56 min) from Chilly-Mazarin to 48.72136, 2.25623.
  6. Hitch 16.5 km (10 min) from 48.72136, 2.25623 to Aire de Limours - Briis-sous-Forges. Expect around 15 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  7. Hitch 81.0 km (49 min) from Aire de Limours - Briis-sous-Forges to Aire de Vémars-Est. Expect around 48 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  8. Hitch 317.2 km (3 h 10 min) from Aire de Vémars-Est to Rue des Deux Gares - Tweestationsstraat, Anderlecht. Expect around 27 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  9. Walk 3.3 km (40 min) from Rue des Deux Gares - Tweestationsstraat, Anderlecht to Brussels.
  10. Hitch 9.2 km (6 min) from Brussels to Dienstenzone Groot Bijgaarden-Noord. Expect around 15 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  11. Hitch 39.5 km (24 min) from Dienstenzone Groot Bijgaarden-Noord to Noordelijke Dienstenzone Wetteren. Expect around 14 min of waiting here. 5 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  12. Hitch 74.0 km (44 min) from Noordelijke Dienstenzone Wetteren to Dienstenzone Jabbeke. Expect around 8 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  13. Walk 0.2 km (3 min) from a hitchhiking spot near Dienstenzone Jabbeke to Dienstenzone Jabbeke.
  14. Hitch 239.9 km (2 h 24 min) from Dienstenzone Jabbeke to RoadChef Maidstone Services. Expect around 2 h 29 min of waiting here. 3 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  15. Hitch 69.1 km (42 min) from RoadChef Maidstone Services to Snargate Street, Dover. Expect around 1 h 23 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  16. Hitch 130.0 km (1 h 18 min) from Snargate Street, Dover to Texaco. Expect around 1 h 09 min of waiting here. 2 logged rides support this leg. See this spot
  17. Get from Texaco to London — 12.2 km. Local transport is usually quicker than walking this stretch.

What hitchhikers said along this route

“Direction Paris/Dijon. Walk from Perrache Station to Pont Kitchener. Traffic stops shortly at the traffic lights. Make eye contact with drivers. Finding a ride can take a while but is worth waiting for. Show sign "Limonest" which is only 5 km outside Lyon. Ask driver to put you off at the gas station near Parc Dardilly, which is a real good spot for finding a further ride.”
― Anonymous · Lyon
“No place to stop, If you find a brave/crazy driver it can work, but I advise rather the petrol stations. Direct verbal contact works the best!”
― Anonymous · Lyon
“there is an entrance from a parking lot to the big street going to the freeway. Cars can stop there without hindering the traffic too much. I was lucky and got picked up with some other guy within 15 minutes”
― Anonymous, Thu 2011-07-28 · Lyon
“No space for drivers to stop anymore without hindering the traffic”
― Cigale, Tue 2015-09-08 · Lyon
“Pointless trying there, there is no where to stop, it's designed like this, you need to go further south in Lyon, near Oullin, or after where the 2 rivers meet!”
― Anonymous, Thu 2011-09-01 · Lyon
“I was always lucky on this bridge”
― Anonymous, Fri 2011-05-27 · Lyon
“Used a sign with "Villefranche" - clearer than "Péage" - and I got a ride to the Péage anyway. Not to much place to stop but really a lot of people passing”
― Noosk, Mon 2013-08-05 · Lyon
“There is not a place to curb, but drivers are all stopped when the light is red so I held my sign to the stopped drivers. One slowed and brought me to the peage at Villefranche.”
― Azh, Wed 2013-11-13 · Lyon
“i tried before and after the traffic lights, asked the drivers, smiled, during 2 hours... a girl passing by told me it usually works pretty easily for her.”
― Mikan, Wed 2015-02-25 · Lyon
“In May 2013 Insa and Jan hitched from this spot to direction Bordeaux. We weren’t taken to the Péage because the person wasn’t going there, but dropped off at a roundabout on the way which was also good.”
― Jan, Fri 2014-03-14 · Lyon

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Waiting times and distances are averages from community-logged rides. Travel time assumes 100 km/h in a car and 5 km/h walking. They are not guarantees.


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