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==== Option 1: C33 Motorway service station Gasolinera Galp Montcada Norte ====
* Take a Renfe train on the R2 or R2 Nord line, direction: Granollers Centre (R2) or Macanet-Massanes (R2 Nord). * Get off at station ''Montcada i Reixac''. Train will take you there in about 20 minutes. * Exit the train station to the left, through the second exit in the direction of the train. * Walk under the railways and pass through the station building. At the other side you will find yourself at a small shopping district with a one way street. Follow it to the right. * Pass the church, traffic lights, and cross the pedestrian bridge. Once over the bridge, turn left and follow the fenced in school playground around to the right. * You should now see the motorway above you and parking below the motorway. * Continue following the motorway until you see the road dip down and to the right under the railroad. Go under the bridge. * Up ahead and to your left you will see a very broken vertical turnstile and a sign saying "forbidden" (see a picture here: http://imgur.com/MLxJc29). Ignore the sign and follow the foot path to the right, to the service road along the motorway. ( Someone also marked the entrance with "Autostop ->" )* This service road goes right into the back of a Gasolinera Galp Montcada Norte petrol station( [geo:41.494515,2.191707;crs=wgs84;u=0 GPS Location] )
Also you can get to the same petrol station by metro L11 till stop Torre Baró | Vallbona + 3 km walk next to river to to Montcada district and find a train stop ''Montcada i Reixac''. Than follow directions as above.
==== Option 2: AP-7 Motorway Service Station Bellaterra ====
Take train [http://www.fgc.net/accesible/cat/viatjar/s2.htm S2] from ''Barcelona Plaça Catalunya'', direction Sabadell-Rambla, and get off at ''Bellaterra''. (2 zones). Turn left out of the station and walk 1.6km along C/ de Bellaterra. After you have crossed over the motorway bridge, you will see a small road to the left. Walk ≈400 along this road (you will pass through a small tunnel) to the service station.<brParking Bellaterra / >When asking locals, ask how to walk to Hotel Bellaterra, as Spanish people are clueless about hitchhiking and any other question will be answered with useless answers about how to reach the motorway (EDIT: the hotel is closed and you have to climb two gates to get to the rest area)Cepsa fuel station.<br/ >
There are not too many drivers going north so option 1 is probably much better.
As of 2021, the tunnel is no longer accesible, and you have to cross a very busy ramp to get to the gas station - yet another factor in favor of Option 1.
==== Option 3: Barcelona Gran Via ====
From the train station, go left and take the dirt road that leads out and cross under the railway tracks on your right. Walking on this road, you'll come across a surfaced road on your right, that will lead to a bigger road. When you reach this bigger road, you'll see a bridge on your right. Turn left here, and then immediately to the right, to a small street, at the end of which you can see a "stop" sign from the distance. Go straight until it turns into a dirt road, keep going on the dirt road until you reach the petrol station. There will be other roads left and right, ignore them. This whole walk from the station to the service station shouldn't take you much more than 30 minutes (besides, you can find signs on the last road that directly takes you to the service station, showing you that you're on the right way to the "área de servicio").
=== South towards [[Tarragona]], [[Valencia]] {{Aes|C-32}} ===
=== Free food and shower ===
Food Parròquia de Sant Agusti (Carrer de l'Arc de Sant Agustí, metro Liceu) healty food each day except thursday at 10:15. Come half hour earlier to pick up number. Except Expect poor and sketchy people here.
Free hot shower and clothes Carrer de Marie Curie 22 (metro Lluckmajor ) or Av. Meridiana 197 (metro Navas)