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Hitch-Hiking In Britain
Sunday, 01 November 2009 10:54

"Join The Debate: Hitch-Hiking in Britain."
Googling the other day, I found a letter I’d written in a debate about “hitch-hiking in Britain”, and remembered that I used to travel all over Britain ‘thumbing it’ to visit friends and generally explore.
Neil Stevenson puts his faith in the kindness of strangers when he tried to revisit the memories of his teens and hitch-hike in Britain. Have you ever hitch-hiked in Britain? Would you advise against it? Send us your view...
I live abroad now, but when I lived in England throughout the 80's and 90's I used to hitch-hike most weekends across the country to visit friends. The side of a cardboard box and a marker-pen for clear signs and I was often on my way within minutes. I felt a positive state of mind contributed to the success of the hike. Sometimes truckers who had carried me miles would flash other truck drivers and quickly get me transferred to another truck at a junction. And it's true, Eddie Stobart drivers do give lifts!

When I bought a car I would pick up hitch-hikers as often as possible - I never had any trouble.

Sign boards are the clue and forgive me for saying so, there's no excuse for being smelly. But I did have to camp in a field near Spaghetti Junction once in 1982. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/your_say/article551075.ece		 Hitch-hiking in Britain. Spot the deliberate mistake?