I hitched all over the UK in my late teens and early twenties, in the 1980s and 1990s. Had a lift from Sheffield, en route to Cumbria, from a guy in a brand new Bentley Mulsanne. I've picked a few hitchhikers up too but no one for the past five or six years as I haven't seen any at all.

Hitching is fun with friends but can be scary when one is on one's own.i got a lift with two butch gays once and they spent two hours telling me about their S&M fetish. I was a little bit uneasy to be honest.