In reply to Rob Exile Ward:
Hitch hiking is still out, there picked up French couple on my way to Pembroke last year, they hitch hike every where, get this, he hitch hiked a yacht from Gib to the Caribbean.
Met another French lad, on the ferry from tangier to spain, an actor on his way back from a film shoot in the Sahara. Hi hitches an bla Blas, said he hitched from Calais to uk, so got a free ferry crossing.