Took a bus from Monaco centre at 3 pm, just to get out of the city.

Started hitchhiking from a service station at 3:40 pm.

Got picked up after about 10 minutes by a guy who was going to Milan.

(We had originally planned to go to Genoa, but since this guy was going all the way to Milan (and we didn't have any plans for Genoa, anyway), we decided to just go with him the whole way!)

Got dropped off in the outskirts of Milan at about 6:50 pm.

Took a train into the centre, and walked from the train station to our Couchsurfing host's house.