Travelling with a breadknife - will I be arrested?

[mrsgboring]

Stupid question alert

We're getting a ferry to Denmark and making lots of stopovers at youth hostels and hotels. I would like to take a breadknife and/or other sharp knife for hotel room picnics, but need to know:

1. Can I reasonably carry a knife in a car in ferry queue, Denmark and Germany without it being somehow criminal?

2. What is the best place to put it so it's as safe as possible from 2.6 yo DS?

Fixating on this one silly detail rather than all the packing, driving and child entertaining the next few days hold....

We've gone camping abroad, taking all bar the kitchen sink with us in the car boot, and never had any problems with knives. We generally put all sharps (knives, peelers, scissors, etc) in a plastic food-tub, and it gets buried in a crate among the rest of the kitchen-y stuff. If we were travelling with just suitcases I would bury it in a suitcase. Just don't mention it - you don't get searched on ferries like you do on planes. No idea whether or not it's illegal!

Thanks, PrettyCandles. I would feel less worried if I were camping, it's the fact I will have hardly any other cooking stuff with me, so it might look a little odd.

Agree it is very unlikely the ferry folk would even know I had such a thing. Am being silly.

if put away in baggage with other culinary paraphenalia, then yes

if in a sheath on your belt then no

Wrap it in a teatowel (which will also come in useful).