Well. We had just visited Malbork Castle and despite our unexpectedly brief visit, we were still trying to make up some time to squeeze in everything on the very tight itinerary. Our last picture at Malbork was taken at 2:38. Soon we were on the road again. Here is what it looked like:
Soon we were approaching more villages.
In the distance, the sign on the left says Zukowo 15, and the sign on the right says Stalewo 2. And then quite suddenly there was another Mennonite cemetery staring me in the face.
Andrew had warned me we’d see Mennonite cemeteries all over the place and couldn’t be stopping for all of them at random. We had to be strategic. No more impulsive stopping. So, in an effort to be cooperative and get us back on track time-wise, I just took these pictures from the car as we drove on by.
Goodbye, little Mennonite cemetery! I have no idea what you were! (I thought I’d be able to read the text on the first picture later… but alas I cannot. It’s blurry.)
More beautiful countryside driving. (Hey, I think these are cottonwoods lining the roads…)
The homes were very fascinating to me. I took pictures as we drove past, like of this little cottage.
I guess that’s weird of me to do.
At 3:36pm, we saw that we were entering Rozgart (aka Rosegarten).
And one minute later we were at a stop sign or something, gazing at this arcaded house, but distracted by the very angry crane.
Oh, you didn’t see it? It’s on the left. Here’s a closer look.
Okay, focus, Ungers! Look at this magnificent arcaded house!
There is a sign in front that says it is an “arcaded dormitory of the Dutch type, 1749.” (How can you tell I used Google Translate.)
We then set out to find all the arcaded houses of Rozgart.
Then we saw the Mennonite cemetery of Rosengarten… like this:
Yes, more pictures from the car.
Andrew asked if I was good with this and I said yes. He was giving us time in our ancestor’s cemeteries and we had to go!
Next to the church is a sign with a map that says “Bicycle Trails of Zulawy Elblaskie” — I can see that we are very close to Elblag! (Also, it would be so lovely to cycle these trails to all these Mennonite cemeteries!)
We were on the move again. I started taking random pictures of housebarns.
They seemed to be everywhere.
We were now on our way to one of the most beautiful sites (in my opinion).
