Lost Lithuanian treks homewards from Germany: report

0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AFP) — A Lithuanian farmer who was left behind at German road stop spent nine days trekking part-way home, living on apples and water from puddles along the route, a Lithuanian newspaper reported Tuesday.

Saulius Marcinkevicius, 41, had decided to go on his first ever trip abroad with a group of fellow Lithuanian farmers who were bound for an agriculture fair in Hanover earlier this month, the daily Lietuvos Rytas said.

The rest of the group forgot him when their coach stopped at a service station near Leipzig on November 13.

Marcinkevicius, who had only his jacket, passport and around 100 euros (150 dollars) in cash, decided to make his way home on foot.

He spent the next nine days walking around 200 kilometres (125 miles)...