You can read and research, and exhaust a list of websites to harden the most nubile approach, but there is nothing like thumbing down your first ride! Read on for my 12 top tips for hitching around Western Europe...

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Salamanca....with over 33,000 students the vibrancy that is injected into the nightlife of the city is telling in the range of good cheap eateries and a stoic nightlife.....

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Road trip! An iconic metaphor for an extended bit of travel and fun with friends that involves wild adventures, lots of drinking and endless pursuit of the opposite sex.

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Now this is subjective, I haven’t been everywhere but I love beaches and prefer sand over shingle or rocks and I have been very fortunate to have seen quite a few great beaches in my travels.

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Lisbon...A modern city with a great transportation system, cheap hostels, castles and cathedrals, a host of bars and a hopping nightlife. Lisbon is rapidly being discovered as a budget gem in the pricey Eurozone.

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Breakfast starts at the hostel at 8:30 am. The troops were all massed ready for a leisurely scramble along the cliffs between Lagos and Praia da Luz. Scramble yes, leisurely well…..

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Many centuries ago Portugal was the master of the oceans and ships would leave from the great harbours of the Algarve coast to points all over the globe.

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Mega Sandcastles in The Algarve \"Looking[http://travelgeneration. com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/fiesa06-1. jpg] Looking out over Fiesa Sandcastles near Pera, The Algarve, Portugal I was lucky enough to be living in The Algarve, Portugal when the annual Fiesa Sandcastle competition was on - this was certainly one of the most special things I have been to.

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