So, the lesson is that if you get a pop-up message on a device, try to figure out exactly what it says and why. I must have inadvertently changed a setting on my camera and almost all my photos from 2 days worth of travel look like the darkest night.

When I get home next week I’ll really have to figure this out. The good thing was that I realized (finally) that I needed to change a setting and did.

Of course, since I’ve been to all the places where these photos were shot several times previously, I can just go into my files and pull out others. But still.

I’m excited that tomorrow Ola and I will be taking off for Gdańsk. I’ve never seen the Baltic, and never been in this part of Poland, so the next few days will be really interesting. Today Ola and I went in search of the new archive in Krakow, and the building, while difficult to find, looks amazing. We didn’t have any research we needed to do onsite, and I do miss the quirky old place in Stare Miasto, but a new, climate controlled, protected space for all those old records is more to the point tnhan me liking quirky buildings!

In Gdańsk and nearby Gdynia, we’ll be looking at archives, and most importantly, visiting the relatively new Emigration Museum. We’ve been told that there are departure manifests there, and I am very eager to go searching through the material to see if we can find documents for clients whose ancestors left from there.

We’ll be taking a train and the trip is about 5 hours. I’ve not traveled by train in Poland before, so the experience will be noteworthy. Another adventure!

I wish I had more time to wander around Krakow. There’s tons to see, lots of restaurants and music everywhere! The last time I was here was in 2019, and I thought I’d be back the following spring. COVID had other plans for all of us. This time, I don’t have any plans in the works to return, but I sure hope something comes up soon.