...is the name of the commune where I'm staying in Frederiksberg. Lovely people. They welcomed me like one of them, fed me after I hadn't had almost anything to eat for 48h on the road, and spent the whole night playing board games. Every night there is a communal dinner, and tomorrow I'll be making some taboule.I cannot say hitching was unsuccessful yesterday, although I didn't make it all the way to Copenhagen. I set off from a little village between Hamburg and Kiel and already at 10 I was at the docks on the island of Fehmarn. The ferry leaves every 30min and costs 6€ for foot passengers. The Danes are going to build a bridge to make their beer-shopping trips easier, maybe hitching a bit harder, since everyone's car will be probably be loaded with booze. I had had nothing for breakfast and I was starving already from the day before, so I desperately needed to get some food before being forced to face the ferry's menu, which I didn't want to. So I turned around and spent more than an hour looking for a bakery in the village of Puttgarden. I had almost the impression of being somewhere in Iceland: nobody was around, the landscape was harsh and constantly swept by the wind, there were no shops whatsoever but 8km away. I regretted not having bought anything at the gas station that morning. It was not a big problem though because I used my legendary but a but miserable emergency food supplies (i.e. rye bread with tahini and vegan salami, plus some dates and a dehydrated royal gelly drink). But I thought people came to Germany to shop; I forgot though, that they come with their cars to shop, so they don't need shops at walking distance. And I was the only foot passenger.I got some small rides and got first badly stuck near Nykøbing; stood on the ramp, it was raining and I had bad luck. I waited almost an hour before a nice lady brought me to a roadhouse on the island of Farø, where I got stuck again. There were really few people there, people not quite friendly or going in other directions. While I waited for someone, it got dark, already between 4 and 4:30. My chances to get a ride to Copenhagen were shrinking. Eventually I asked a man that took me to Næstved, where I took the train for the remaining 80km. It wasn't a great deal, because by hitching I saved around 80kr compared to taking the train directly from the ferry. I met nice people though, but although I have to admit that it wasn't cold at all and at this time of the year it should freeze at night and it doesn't yet, it wasn't really pleasant. Or maybe it's just the disappointment of the train.I have to admit I had overestimated Denmark. I though it was a great country to hitch-hike but it probably isn't. The reason why I thought so is that people that pull over are very nice, and they happen to be solo female drivers as well, which is quite uncommon in most other places. But sometimes you have to wait quite long for meeting some of those. My problem is also that I usually have really bad luck with truckers. Either they just refuse to take hitchers on board, or they're impossible to find or to talk to, or I just don't get rides to service stations. Or maybe I just lack boobs (sad but true?). Yesterday there were two trucks at that rest place in Farø, but they were empty and the drivers were nowhere to be found... probably I should plan my trips with a good map of the service stations, pick the best ones and ask for rides hopping from one to another.Well, this is the balance of my trip from Italy to Copenhagen now (total 62€):- Bologna-Munich night train: 23€- Munich-Berlin with a shared group ticket: 8€- Berlin-Hamburg with car sharing: 13€- Ferry Puttgarden-Rødbyhavn: 6€- Train Næstved-Copenhagen: 12€If I don't hich-hike, I need a good reason not to. For example, eco-friendly solutions that are also reasonably priced. I figured out one for getting back to Germany that I could have thought about before: BerlinLinienBus from Copenhagen to Rostock for 26€, then Mitfahrgelegenheit (car pooling) from Rostock to Lübeck for 8€. Not bad. Unfortunately I had to book Ryanair to get back to Italy from Lübeck, but what can you do when trains are so hard to book? Why do I always get the price and all the details when I look for flights, but almost never for trains travelling between two different countries?
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