Odd News

You know the Lost in Space? Or the Lost in Translation? Sure you do, but you don't know the new one. I's called Lost in Germany. Maybe Germany is not as big as the space, but indeed, it is big enough to get lost. Actually Germany means 357,021 square kilometers of ground you can get lost in. Well, it never happened to me, but then again I've never been to Germany. However one Lithuanian farmer been there and done that. He got lost in Germany. Just so you know Lithuania is in northern Europe in between Latvia, Belarus, Poland and the Russian exclave of the Kaliningrad Oblast and it's not a big country. And think, with its 65,200 square kilometers, we can even call it small country. That might be the reason why Saulius Marcinkevicius, 41 and some of his friends and fellow farmers decided to go on the road trip. The first one abroad for the Marcinkevicius (and now he claims that also his last one). The group of adventurous farmers stopped at the servis station near Leipzig. It was November 13. After the break they went on, but no one noticed that somebody is missing. That somebody was Marcinkevicius. Alone, in foreign country, not able to speak any foreign language, with just 100 Euros and his passport (thank god he had it in his pocket) farmer decided to hike. So, he walked around 200 kilometers, not speaking to anybody, eating apples he had found and drinking water from rain puddles. Finally after 9 days of walk and loss of 5 kilos he got home safe and sound and is now happy. In his words:"I got lost, and went through some extreme experiences, the kind that other people sometimes pay big money for."

related story: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071127/tod-lithuania-germany-offbeat-86d1698_1.html

by Lucia Mitrova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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