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If you want to feel bad; Hitching out of Jena is difficultnot a piece of cake but not impossible either. Your best bet is Basicly there are two motorways to try start: The A9 heading Noth (Berlin)-South (Munich) and get a lift as far as the motorway connecting Berlin A4 crossing from west (Frankfurt) to east (Dresden). === A4: East-West===The A4 passes Jena straight at its eastern style southern edge: Lobeda. You can either start hitching directly here or take the train and Municha 3km walk to "Rasthof Teufelstal" (~20 km from Jena). If you want to start hitching straight from Jena there are several places to start.  ==== Start in Jena ====The best place to do this is in the tunnel underneath the Frankfurt-Dresden motorway, down the road from a hotel on a roundabout. If in doubt, then just get to the motorway, which heads east to west south of the main town. There are two junctions. One has a construction site just along from it (it looks like they're building a bridge over), and the other doesn't. You want to be at the one that doesn't, unless you're going to Frankfurt, or east. If you find yourself at the wrong junction (there's a big petrol station and a McDonald's), then you need to head west out of the petrol station, parallel to the motorway. Walk along past the MediaMarkt, and turn left. You'll see a bridge over the road, and there's a housing estate opposite. Cross the bridge and head up the hill through the housing estate. Keep going up the hill until you see the main road. Turn right, and walk along the road. The tram forks off to the left, but you should carry on down the hill to a roundabout with a hotel on it. You should be able to see the bridge now. If your lift's going the wrong way, you can quite easily get out at the services, and (south at least), there is an underground tunnel connecting the two service stations about half a mile north of the service station itself. ==== Trainride to Rasthof Teufelstal ==== If you are generally not that lucky thumbing down cars and you would like to start your jouney straight at the Highway, the easiest option is to travel to Rasthof Teufelstal which is located at the A4 approx. 15 km east of Jena. From here it should be no problem to ask people for lifts east or west. To get there either taake the local train from Jena West towards Gera and get off at "Papiermühle". From here it is a (scenic) 3 km hike first east along the valley and then south to the small village of Bollberg. From here you either cross the fields directly to the Rasthof if heading west or cross the Highway (walk towards Mörsdorf after Böllberg) and head east at the other side.