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Mugz on the road - Hitchhiking from Cambridge to Glasgow

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I'm planning to hitch hike from Cambridge to Glasgow either starting Sunday afternoon at about 5.30pm or on Monday morning.

I have never hitched a lift before and don't really know what I am doing, but fuck paying almost £100 each way for a train ticket up there or £40 each way for a bus ticket.

It is a long journey, about 400 miles. Will probably not be able to get it all done in one day, but I really want to try and get a taste of life on the road in preparation for when I travel around america in a similar fashion in a few years.

Has anyone done much hitching in the UK? Has anyone picked anyone up?

I used to see people waiting at slip roads leading onto the motorway near my dads house quite a bit, they were obviously hitching.

Is there a hitchhiking etiquette?

Anyone got any tips for how to have a successfull ride?

Am totally new to this but want to start building my confidence and hitching around the country a bit more often.

Is it best to just say NORTH when they ask where you are going, or plan to stop at specific cities along the way?

At the moment I am thinking it is probably best try and get rides in one of these two ordersr;


ROUTE 1
  • Cambridge
  • Nottingham
  • Sheffield
  • Leeds
  • Newcastle
  • Carlisle
  • Glasgow

Or this order

ROUTE 2
  • Cambridge
  • Birmingham
  • Manchester
  • Carlisle
  • Glasgow

Is there anyone on either of those routes that would be up for meeting for a drink or two? I don't expect to do the whole travel in one day, and it would be pretty cool to meet up with some bluelighters on my travels :)

If anyone does want to have a mini Mugz meet up while I make my way up norf then post in here too and send me a pm so we can try and arrange to contact each other to meet up :)


Also any other advice about hitchiking in general would be great. I'm actually really excited about doing it. Is going to be a little adventure :)
 
I've already said that I'll meet you in Manchester, as I'm sure a few others will. Good luck with it all. :)
 
good luck. i hope to see you in glasgow. though don't trust glaswegians on where to drink if you speak the queens english... we went on a hilarious but unintended mission.

i have no personal hitch hiking experience but do have friends who got a lift home by the police cos its apparently illegal. so if they ask tell em where you're going, not where you're from, or you could end up back at square one.
 
It'd be quicker for you if you went straight up the A1 all the way up past Leeds rather than jaunt West and get on the M1. Also don't go via Newcastle, go on the A66 just after you past Richmond, which'd take you onto Carlisle.

If you want to get on the M1 and stop at the bigger cities to see some BL'ers, then you might want to cut down your list a bit. Nottingham to Sheffield is like 40 minutes, Sheffield to Leeds is like, 45 minutes. Although saying that, even though it's a bit stop/start, you might find it's a lot easier to hitch shorter rides.

If you get a BL Nottingham meeting organised I might show up, but I've not met anyone on here before!

Edit: Successful hitching involves not looking at your murderous best. Also, if YOU don't like the look of the person that picks you up you don't have to get in. Stay safe.
 
lol, the fisrt and only time i hitch hiked was on a comedown of my first ever pills, big chunky mitzis..blue speckled and cost 3 quid each, ate bout 5 in the night and had 3 for breakfast whilst waiting for a bus only to find a freak is offering us a lift..needless to say we accepted and had screwdrivers in our hands the whole journey but evrything was all good, mind you i was 15 at the time so anything could of happened!

EDIT: funnily enough when we got to our destination there was a tramp under the bridge..lol..this is devon after all..and he had a fuckin loaded revolver in his belt, so the fat spliff of soap we were burningthrogh was passed on and we quickly exited! crazy times! that weekend was inbetween my gcse's and i had consumd shrooms, mdma, coke,k and a ton of beer, and on the monday still managed to pass biology with a c ;)
 
I rekon you would have better luck on a Sunday .
Their will be more folk likely to pick you up than on aMonday when most people are working.

Always make a really nice clear sign and make sure it says Please on it.

Also make it easy for people to pick you up. You don't want to be standing somewhere with your lovely sign;) where folk can't pull over . This is probably the most commonly overlooked part of HH by newbies.

Don't offer money , do take anything that you are offered within reason. Often lorry drivers liberate a bit of their stock if its edible or such like they are usually very generous ime.

I have hitched from Glasgow back to Bristol i manged it in 3 lifts.

Good Luck n always trust your gut feeling.
 
I have hitched from Glasgow back to Bristol i manged it in 3 lifts.
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That is pretty impressive :)

I have work on Sunday so would have to leave at around 5.30pm so wouldn't ever be able to get there by sunday evening. I guess I could plan to get so far by Sunday night and set up camp wherever I got, then carry on in the morning.
 
Mugz said:
That is pretty impressive :)

I have work on Sunday so would have to leave at around 5.30pm so wouldn't ever be able to get there by sunday evening. I guess I could plan to get so far by Sunday night and set up camp wherever I got, then carry on in the morning.
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Might as well get up bright n early on Monday then mate.
Its certainly gonna be an adventure , i quite envy you.
When me n my ex used to Hitch She would always hold the sign n then when someone pulled over most of the time they were gutted to find that it wasn't a single girl. A few times folk would just Fuk of , glad they did cos they were obviously stopping 4 the wrong reasons8(
Theirs no reason if you start when the sun comes up u could do it all the way in a day.
But you want to stop in a few places no?
Have you agreed to hook up with any1 yet?
 
I've hitched in Australia, wasn't an overly amazing experience. I expected it to be totally awesome, it was actually mostly sitting about in akward silence making small talk with strange people hoping they didn't decide to murder me. Nearly all of them would stop and the first thing they'd say was "Ever seen the film Wolf Creek?" 8o

I think it's more common over there than it is here. Once I ended up about 6hrs in the wrong direction because of a fuck up by he boy who picked me up, he was hungover / pissed (it's standard for Aussies to drink and drive) and misread my sign. Took me hours in the opposite direction and by the time he realised I had no fucking idea where I was so just went to where he was headed.

Would think that starting at half 5 on a Sunday night is a pretty crap idea, you need to be starting in the morning so you've a full day to get somewhere, if you start at half 5 you've got just a few hours to get to your next destination or you'll be sleeping at the road side...or walking home. Who's out driving from city to city on Sunday evenings anyway, the roads will be dead I assume.

Go for it though, be an experience either way.
 
Yeah, definitely going to start on Monday morning, got some cardboard signs from work to put some destinations on.

Think I am going to head to Birmingham first, then up to Manchester, then depending if anyone in Leeds or Newcastle has time to meet up I will go there, if not then straight up the M6 to Carslisle then Glasgow.
 
chinup said:
good luck. i hope to see you in glasgow. though don't trust glaswegians on where to drink if you speak the queens english... we went on a hilarious but unintended mission.
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Hahaha.

"Excuse me my good man, can you direct us to a nice licenced establishment where we may partake in an alcoholic beverage or two??"
"Aye, nae bother pal, just follow this road up until you find the first pub that is a solid concrete building with no windows & one door, they'll fuckin' love you in there"

My mate was at Glasgow Uni (the posher one lol) & a sqad of his more than posh classmates were going out for a game of "Pub Golf" except the normal way to play it round here (if you're that type of wanker) is to do a "Sub Crawl", so you get on the subway & jump off at each stop for a drink in a random boozer. He told me they were away doing this & I said at the time they'd get done in. Sure enough they bounced in some shitehole pub near Ibrox & proceeded to get fucking leathered. Proper fucked up, cracked with bottles & shit. Fuck knows how it started but a sqad of "Yaaaaah, I was like... so yaaaaa" type student wankers dressed in golf gear walking into an old man's boozer in a rough area of Glasgow is never gonna end up good.

When you both intending on being in Glasgow?? I'll maybe meet you for a pint or two if I'm kicking about.
 
My mate was at Glasgow Uni (the posher one lol) & a sqad of his more than posh classmates were going out for a game of "Pub Golf" except the normal way to play it round here (if you're that type of wanker) is to do a "Sub Crawl", so you get on the subway & jump off at each stop for a drink in a random boozer. He told me they were away doing this & I said at the time they'd get done in. Sure enough they bounced in some shitehole pub near Ibrox & proceeded to get fucking leathered. Proper fucked up, cracked with bottles & shit. Fuck knows how it started but a sqad of "Yaaaaah, I was like... so yaaaaa" type student wankers dressed in golf gear walking into an old man's boozer in a rough area of Glasgow is never gonna end up good.
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I shouldn't really be laughing at folk getting battered for no reason but that's hilarious. What the fuck were they expecting going into rough local boozers acting like fannies. I'm not a fan of playing pub golf, got made to play it once for my mates birthday and hated it. There's no need to be cutting about the city centre dressed up like a cunt downing drinks.
 
It has it's advantages if there's birds all glammed up in their golfing gear though! :)

As for hitching on a sunday night or monday morning i'd have to say seems a bad idea. Sunday night will be quiet and monday morning everyones pissed off going to work. I'd say if you've got to pick between the two though definately the monday would be better.

Why anyone would want to go to birmingham is beyond me.
 
thats fucking hilarious ptch.

we weren't quite that bad, it was mostly my mate who was v pissed and started out ok by talking about how english he felt, then went on to how his mate owned half the highlands.
 
It has it's advantages if there's birds all glammed up in their golfing gear though!
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Hmmm I've seen birds in pub golf gear and they didn't look particularly sex like.
 
TheSpade said:
I shouldn't really be laughing at folk getting battered for no reason but that's hilarious. What the fuck were they expecting going into rough local boozers acting like fannies. I'm not a fan of playing pub golf, got made to play it once for my mates birthday and hated it. There's no need to be cutting about the city centre dressed up like a cunt downing drinks.
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You should be laughing at that. The daft cunts deserved it. They were posh boys, not from Glasgow & just here for uni. They would have been completely oblivious to the fact that going for a drink in some of those bars is dangerous on a good day, never mind when there's a team of them all acting like student wankers. Probably drinking 'jager bombs' just to add to the wank factor.
 
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