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'''Madrid''' [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=madrid&ie=UTF8&z=12&ll=40.422383,-3.703423&spn=0.123888,0.432243&om=1&iwloc=A] is the capital of [[Spain]]. Madrid has a very extensive well-connected metro system that can help you get in and out of the city; a single metro journey is 2 Euros, and a ride on the cercanías should be between 2.50 and 4 euros. If the guard is not watching, or if the metro station has two entrances, you can usually jump the turnstiles. Once inside, there are few controls. The cercanías, however, have barriers at the entry AND the exit.
== Hitching out ==
Christian1337's recommendation:
Another option is taking the "cercanias" or "renfe" C-3, which leaves from Sol, to the Station "Valdemoro". The ticket should cost 3,30 € and it takes 30 minutes to get to "Valdemoro". Get off the train and walk down "Paseo de la Estacion", take a slight left onto "Calle República Argentina" (the road right next to the highway) take a right to follow "Calle República Argentina". After 100 meter turn left onto "Avenida de Andalucia" and follow it until you get to the gas petrol station. In total it is a 30 minute walk (going uphill, exhausting in summer). The gas petrol station is right next to the highway. There is also a big truck stop. The station has mostly local people (as it has a car wash) and is usually quite empty, but you will find somebody (going to Ocana) who will take you to the next service station.
In any case, try to get to the Sesana service station, it's on the motorway 4, between Valdemoro and Ocana. Although it is small, it has a restaurant, and unlike other service stations in the South of Madrid, you will find long distance rides there (Granada, Cordoba) with some patience.
=== East toward [[Valencia]], [[Murcia]] {{European Route Number|901}} ===
Hitchhiking between Madrid and Barcelona is fairly easy, but there are multiple options
* Go by train or bus to [[Guadalajara]], 50 km away. The journey will cost about 4 euro (4.50 euro from Atocha). Then take a bus to Taracena, a small village several kilometres from Guadalajara (This will cost 1 euro). Just tell the driver that you need to go to the station, a lot of people ask him for that.("Tengo que ir a la estacion de servicio en la autovia") From there you can get to a petrol station next to a bar restaurant, already on the motorway towards Zaragoza and Barcelona. If people are not going too far, try to get a lift to the next [[petrol station hitchhiking|gas petrol station]], 15 km away, much bigger and with many trucks.
Steffi and Manu tried this option. It takes a long time to get to the spot (it took us 2h from Atocha), and from the renfe train station in Guadalajara there is (as far as we know) no direct bus to Taracena, you first have to take a bus from the renfe station to the bus station. there the buses may leave only every hour. the petrol station is rather small and, when we were there in winter, there were mostly local cars.
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* The San Fernando hitch point is a cheaper way. Take the train from Atocha in the direction Alcala de Henares or Guadalajara until the station San Fernando near Madrid. The train ticket will cost 1.45 euro. Behind the San Fernando train station there is an entrance to the motorway where you can easily hitchhike.
* [[User:Kacheksja|Kacheksja]] hitched from La Garena. Take the Renfe train number C7 direction Alcala de Hernares or C2 direction Guadalajara from Atoche. Get out on the station named La Garena. When you get out of the station, go right to av. Juan Carlos 1. It later continues in av. de Europa. Then follow the signs saying "A2 Zaragoza". First you see a Shell gas petrol station (possibility 1 - a bad one, the traffic is low, it's in the city and on the wrong side of the road) then the roundabout that goes onto the highway is possibility 2 (better but still the traffic is low and there is no good place for cars to pull over). The best one is the Galp gas petrol station. You can access it from the industrial area right behind it - it's a very good hitch - hiking spot, he got a ride offered without asking!
=== North towards [[Burgos]], Basque Country, [[Bordeaux]] {{European Route Number|5}} ===
Take metro line 6 to the station ''Alto de Extremadura'' and then go to the petrol station on the street ''Avenida de Portugal'', which is the A5 highway. From there search for a lift at least to another petrol station at 48 km down the A5. Apparently if you walk 5 minutes down the road on the left there is a place that serves free food at 12.00pm.
Alternatively, it seems like one could easily get to the service station "Polvoranca" on the R5 [https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=40.337075,-3.802514&hl=en&sll=40.337009,-3.802621&sspn=0.009846,0.01929&mra=mift&mrsp=0&sz=16&t=m&z=16|HereR5].
You would have simply take the "10" metro line to puerto del sur, about 30 minutes riding away from the city centre, and then walk a kilometre or so down Av. Leganés, splitting off to the gas petrol station as you can see [https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=40.337075,-3.802514&hl=en&ll=40.339127,-3.799456&spn=0.004923,0.009645&sll=40.337009,-3.802621&sspn=0.009846,0.01929&mra=mift&mrsp=0&sz=16&t=h&z=17|see here]from this gas petrol station, it seems like most of the traffic would be going toward Toledo or Portugal.
== More information ==
* [http://www.hitchbase.com/ergebnisse.php?LANG=eng&abfrage%5Bstartort%5D=175 Hitchbase] has some information about getting out of Madrid.<br>
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