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=== Towards all directions ===
Get a bus to a place just outside the city named ''Tinqueux''.
At least one bus (bus B) heads towards ''Tinqueux'' which will run along the ''Avenue de Paris''. At a roundabout the bus will take it's own French route - but if you're walking then at this (there's only one) roundabout take the road called ''Avenue de 29th Aout 1944''. A little way past what Google Earth points to as the exact spot of ''Tinqueux'', is a street called ''Rue Charles Boucton''. Once you get there you will discover what you are looking for.
You will see an enormous hitchhikers heaven - thousands of cars and trucks, supermarkets - McDonalds' and petrol stations. You may be able to get to [[China]] from a place like this.
4/9/2010 JK added:
I'm making this addition from the McDonald's mentioned above, after several hours (over three, possibly four) trying for a lift outside the Carrefour petrol station.
And in theory yes this should be a great spot for picking up a lift, but in my opinion it definitely isn't.
I'm hitching to Germany and came here after reading the above recommendation PLUS having it mentioned as a possible pickup point by a potential lift (which was coming from Paris) which fell through (which I'd found on rideshare.co.uk.
Anyway, as I input this, I'm looking across the carpark of the Carrefour supermarket where about 20 trucks are parked up; these guys don't seem to be stopping just for lunch or a piss break, more like for the day or even the weekend (today is Saturday) - so it could easily be tomorrow or the day after before any of them come good for a lift, and I ain't waiting that long.
The main problem here in my opinion is that cars and trucks exiting from the supermarket/petrol station/retail estate come onto the same piece of dual carriageway which leads up to the slip road turning right for the A4 for eastern France and Germany beyond.
This slip road turns through a tight arc with very little forward visibility.
This means from the exit of the petrol station and truck stop to the A4 there's nowhere for any vehicles to stop with reasonable safety - anyone stopping here to pick up a hitchhiker is running serious risk of being shunted from behind, which is why I would avoid this spot and find somewhere else.
But having talked to a few locals it seems there is no obvious other place in the locality to head for.
This view would seem to be confirmed by the fact that after several hours working hard for a lift I saw no other hitchers AT ALL, and only three cars with German registration plates, not a great tally for anyone hoping to make it to Germany before nightfall.
And as for Chinese registration plates, fuggeddabboutit.
=== Going East ([[Metz]], [[Strasbourg]], [[Lyon]], [[Germany]], etc.) ===
