måndag 14 maj 2012

My idea of walking from Sweden/Poland to Greece has begun to materialize. In the morning of 24 April I left from Malmö Central Station at 09:36 to walk my 'test' distance of some 80 kilometers in four days. And, guess, I succeeded! Not exactly as I had planned (see maps in previous news). The first day, I got bad skin from my new (jogging) shoes and there was no available room after 20 k for the night as planned, so I cut some kilometers by bus and then extended my first day to Trelleborg where I slept rather exhausted at Svea B&B. Thanks to that, I could visit my fathers birthplace Västra Tommarp and my parents grave and the churchyard that same day instead of the next. I had left my excessive luggage in a locker at the train station and with that also my camera (!). So, the only pictures that can prove my walking is from my simple cell phone. I think, they will do. Day 2, my friend Björn-Anders showed up out of the yellow bus from Lund. We met at the Church of Gylle and I told him of my roots in the region 'Söderslätt' with farms lika Tågarpsdal, Torshög, Gylle boställe, Rockhög, Haglösa kungsgård, Gustafsberg etc. We visited Ingrid, my second cousin's widow at Rockhög, a farm house built in the 18th century and very much kept the same way as it was built. - OK, let's see if I can manage to get this published. The pictures will come later.