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=== Hitching rides on ferries ===
If possible, try to find out the ferry schedule. Hitch on the side where the cars drive into the ferry because in many places it's hard to hitch on the other side. Just start knocking Yuu can maybe knock on people's windows when they drive and wait for the ferry, especially if they come early and have to wait long, it's easy to talk to them. Try You can maybe try to hitch into cars that have already paid for the ferry (they generally pay for but on almost all car ferries, and definitely all the car including passengersshort distance ones, up to 4 or 5) so you don't have to pay extra for the rideeach passanger so that would be sneaking. Apparently for many In a few ferries this is sadly not possible. Usually (atleast on Sterna Lines) the driver will might have to add your name to paid for the list of passengers before boardingcar not dependant on passangers, but that is a rare case.
Popular Ferry routes to Denmark and Germany are Kristiansand-Hirtshals, Larvik-Hirtshals (ColorLine), Oslo-Frederikshavn and Oslo-Göteborg-Kiel (StenaLine). With ColorLine, cars carrying up to 5 people don't pay extra, so it's possible to hitch a ride on the ferry for free. StenaLine operates overnight only, so even if you manage to find a car, they'll still force you to pay for a very expensive berth (500+ kr). If you're heading to Denmark (the ports of Hirtshals and Frederikshavn are quite close to each other) it makes no sense to take the StenaLine from Oslo, because it takes a really long time (12h!!! that's the way to make you spend as much as possible on board) and you can sail from [[Larvik]] in about 4h, which is reasonably close to Oslo to reach in about 2 hours.
