DAY 28 — Thursday, May 19, 2016
We followed Jakob's advice on today's routing--our friend of the Camino who lives in Sobotka. It worked out well to get in a 15 km walk through dense fields that ended abruptly in impassably high grain (one pic captures that).
Środa Śląska is a town of about 9,000 in lower Slesien, that belonged to Germany up to 1945, then transferred to Poland and ethnically cleansed of Germans as per the Potsdam Agreement. We marveled at the bell tower of St. Andrew's Church. Incidentally, nowhere else have I seen such majestic structures built with bricks than here in Poland! At St. Andrew's we also noted the Camino mileage marker--that was a motivator! Only 84 mi. to the German border.
