Day 10 on the Baltic Santiago trail: Koszalin -
Osieki. Today we actually met some fellow hikers!! It was incredible. After 10
solitary days I'd basically forgotten that this trail is meant to be a major
tourist attraction that will revive the Baltic coast from Rostock to
Kaliningrad.
But there they were, four determined
Polish-German women walking from Ustka (former Stolpmünde) to the border. Which
is funny as I'm walking from the border to Ustka. They also had a Baltic family
connection and were doing the trail properly - with shells dangling from their
backpacks, some sort of rosary prayer scribbled on a piece of paper and stamps
from different churches. Yep, they were actual Santiago pilgrims (or St. Jacek
as he's called in Polish).
We on the other hand are total frauds. We're
just using the trail because it happens to run through my family's old
hometowns. I mean, we're not even Christian.
"Is there even a Jewish version of the
Santiago trail?" I asked Dan as we walked on.
"Yes. The Jewish pilgrimage involves buying
bagels on a Friday, walking over to my mother's place, sitting down, eating a
nice dinner and then sleeping in a comfortable bed," he replied.
15k into another day of walking, the Jewish
version sounded so much more appealing.
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