Valenciennes

Valenciennes is a city in France. Valenciennes is a city in the Nord-Pas de Calais, the northernmost region of France. Close to the border with Belgium it is at the intersection of two major motorways, the A 2 to Paris and the A 23 to Lille. The city itself has a beautiful old-town with museums, several universities and a buzzing nightlife. North of the city, there is a beautiful regional park with loads of nature to explore.

Hitchhiking out

Direction Belgium, Mons, Charleroi, Bruxelles

Coordinates: 50.33972, 3.46911 ^Google OSM
Aire de la Sentinelle Est (motorway services) To get there, you can take a bus 11 from the maintenant train station (direction Trith de Vinci). Leave the bus at St Christophe stop. Then you'll have to walk about 1 km. Keep to the left side on the street Jean Jaures and then follow the road going to the left. The pavement ends here but there is a wide roadside. You'll get to a roundabout from which you can hitchhike. This is the exit from the motorway services back to the highway, apart from that you'll get some people entering the highway from the local zone. On the roundabout, on the exit towards the highway to Belgium the roadside is wide enough for the cars to stop.