One thing that might have impacted hitchhiking in Europe is cheap flights. If you can get somewhere in a few hours for less than 100 euro, or hitchhike there in

One thing that might have impacted hitchhiking in Europe is cheap flights. If you can get somewhere in a few hours for less than 100 euro, or hitchhike there in a few days, you must really like hitchhiking or be really poor. Before the cheap flights, I went hitchhiking not just for fun, but because it was so much cheaper too.