Thumbing from Cork to Dublin

Paulie Walnuts

Does anyone know where the best and safest place to thumb a lift from Cork to Dublin is??? Also it would be handy to know the best place to thumb from Dublin to Cork too!

Amtmann

Since most of the route is now motorway it is illegal to hitchhike from the side of the road. I'd say the internet is probably the best place to arrange such a trip from.

Paulie Walnuts

Furet wrote: »

Since most of the route is now motorway it is illegal to hitchhike from the side of the road. I'd say the internet is probably the best place to arrange such a trip from.

I've already checked it out, there's a website carpool.ie but there doesn't seem to be very much on it. Not much motivation for someone with a car to go on the site.

Amtmann

Maybe try the Commuting and Transport forum here - you might get lucky!

Dankoozy

or the motors forum..

run_Forrest_run

the carpool website is a great idea in theory but it will never take off in this country anyway for reasons such as the compo culture we live in.

If the driver/owner of the car happened to be involved in an accident (even a relatively minor one) there is nothing to stop the hitch hiker/passenger to make a claim against the driver and this opens up a can of worms really.

Anyway, how much is the bus seriously??

bumpintraining

is it ever safe to hitchhike?! Did it when we were younger never again too many scary freaks around:eek:

run_Forrest_run

bumpintraining wrote: »

is it ever safe to hitchhike?! Did it when we were younger never again too many scary freaks around:eek:

I agree!
The funniest memory I have (well, it was scary at the time) was when I was hitchhiking between Castlegregory and Tralee and a lad in a nice merc picked us up (3 teenage lads).
He was very quiet and liked to drive fast. Anyway, he decided to overtake a car on one of the very rare straight parts of that road and there was an oncoming car in the distance, as it grew closer and as he was speeding up he muttered the words "..he picked the wrong guy to play chicken with.." :eek:

We were sh*ttin' it big time and I was never so relieved to see Tralee:D

Paulie Walnuts

bumpintraining wrote: »

is it ever safe to hitchhike?! Did it when we were younger never again too many scary freaks around:eek:

Well if guy in a beat up pick up truck, with an "I Shot JR" t-shirt on pulls up I might tell him to drive on. Anyways I think that is the reason that the carpool website won't work. People are too freaked out by strangers and so automatically assume that everyone they don't know is a "scary freak".

I have hitchhiked many times in the past and never had any problems, usually in the countryside where people aren't quite so paranoid though.

And as far as it being illegal well, i'm prepared to do the time if I get busted!!!

miss_shadow

it's like 10eu to get to dublin...

bumpintraining

it isn't a case of being paranoid it's a case of keeping yourself safe. Most rapists and murderers don't drive pick up trucks with an I shot JR tshirt there normally very charming respectable individuals

bladebrew

miss_shadow wrote: »

it's like 10eu to get to dublin...

+1 if you book the train online you can save a heap of money!
last saturday dublin to cork at 2pm was €10
do not hitchike on a motorway if you get hit by a car travelling at 75mph there is no way you will survive!!

Paulie Walnuts

Ya I'm well aware that it doesn't cost much but TBH I'm sick of getting the 5 hour bus, and every time I get the train the carriages are full of screaming kids, people watching movies on laptops yadda yadda yadda....

...and yes I'm aware of the quiet carriage but you usually need to pre-book a seat on this carriage which isn't an option....

dcuhead

Hey Paulie,
Check out this website www.hitchwiki.org. I found it a godsend when hitching around Ireland. I have done that route many time (as a girl hitching alone and sometimes with a friend) and have had no trouble. Best to bring a sign!


Irish rail do have some pretty good promos at the mo though I must admit...10 euro to dublin...can't go wrong with that!!

Bill-e

I couldn't imagine hitch hiking. Do you have to make small talk and all that sh1te? I would be more frightened of that then being raped.

Paulie Walnuts

Bill-e wrote: »

I couldn't imagine hitch hiking. Do you have to make small talk and all that sh1te? I would be more frightened of that then being raped.

It's the same in taxis...

"You busy?"

"You been on long?"

miss_shadow

Paulie Walnuts wrote: »

Ya I'm well aware that it doesn't cost much but TBH I'm sick of getting the 5 hour bus, and every time I get the train the carriages are full of screaming kids, people watching movies on laptops yadda yadda yadda....

...and yes I'm aware of the quiet carriage but you usually need to pre-book a seat on this carriage which isn't an option....

wear headphones listen to music full blast?

tommmy1979

Bill-e wrote: »

I couldn't imagine hitch hiking. Do you have to make small talk and all that sh1te? I would be more frightened of that then being raped.

Brilliant!

minidazzler

On the side of the road after the Roundabout after the tunnel on the Dublin road is the best place from the city to get picked up.

Cars have yet to pick up much speed and there is a large hard shoulder.

Offer to pay for the toll road though, to be nice.