Nitin felt so at home in Annagassan
NITIN SONAWANE has seen some sights in his three years on the road.
In 2016, he left his home in India and decided to undertake a peace walk - by foot and bicycle - around the world.
He was inspired to do the walk to mark 150 years since Gandhi’s birth (on October 2 2019).
In those three years, he has met and couraged peace in places from Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Hong Kong to El Salvador, Colombia,, South Africa, Ethiopia and the United States.
Last week, he experienced something totally different - traditional Irish music in a pub in Annagassan!
‘It was incredible,’ Nitin (28) told the Drogheda Independent.
He had arrived in Belfast and walked from there into Co Louth and ended up at the Glyde Inn in Annagassan.
There, Conor O’Neill welcomed him in and gave him a room for the night. The Dunleer crew arrived to play some music and Nitin was in heaven.
In usually spends his nights in a tent and lives on about €5 a day, getting help from members of the Indian community wherever he goes.
But Annagassan gave him a glimpse of the sea and he loved it.
‘Everyone was so welcoming,’ he stated.
Then he headed to Drogheda and was shocked by the events of recent times in the town, maybe appropriate that a peace walker should arrive by the banks of the Boyne at this time.
‘What has happened stated.
Nitin, an Information Technology graduate, left his small town of Rashin, near Pune, in India to spread the word of peace, following at times in the footsteps of Ghandi.
Next, he was off to Dublin and then over to Portugal and a further stretch, before he arrives back in Pakistan later in the year.
As for this part of the world, he says he left with good memories of a place that gave him great friendship - even for a short time. is terrible,’ he