Blogs from Przemysl, Subcarpathian, Poland, Europe

Today we took a 4 hour train ride to Przemysl. The train was very nice because we had a whole room to ourselves and we had a beautiful view. Once we got to Przemysl, we were met by Ania's sister Agata and Agata's son, Patrick. After we put our bags at their beautiful house, we went to Ania's dad's house. At his house, there was a huge garden where everyone started picking and eating raspberries, blackberries, plums, pears, apples, corn, and more. I loved eating the fresh fruit and I could not stop eating them. After a while, Ania's mother, brother, and brother's fiancee came. Then we ate more food. The next day we went with Ania's dad and Patrick for a tour of Przemysl. First we went to a castle, called the fairy-tale castle (Krasoczyn) ... read more

After the football distraction of the previous day, the Man in the Middle was on a mission. The nearest information he had was that his old man hailed from these parts, before WW2 intervened and circumstances meant that he had a spell under duress making ball bearings in a foreign land. The details are scarce. The exact route to the UK is even more of mystery, but what is known meant leaving Przemysl sometime in the years after 1941 and rolling up in the UK after the cessation of hostilities. Alas, there is no BBC TV crew on this trip with us to point him in the right direction of all things family tree and it was always going to be just a trip to be into the dark. We left Rzeszow on the regional train. ... read more