Krynki from Dan

Fill your water jugs here

Pat's account is very complete, but there are a couple of things I want to add. Krynki feels like you really are at the end of the world, as Tomek said several times. It is less than a half mile away from Belarus. There are two operating stores, and that seems about it. A couple of thousand people live there, and no Jewish people.
When that area thrived, it was really an interesting ecosystem. Farmers (Christian) raised the cattle and officially owned land. Jews bought the cows, owned the factories, and made the leather. It was a perfect spot for that because of an abundant supply of water. Today the water is bottled and marketed throughout Poland as Krynki water.
The town is populated by older people, and also people who are unemployed. Prosperity has arrived in much of Poland, but it missed this place.

Lunch was a unique, once in a lifetime, unduplicatable event. We went to the only Tatar restaurant, in Poland, maybe the only one in the world. The name of it is Tatarska Jurta. Roughly translated to the Tatar Jurt. The fact that she has a web site (click on the highlighted name of her restaurant) is in itself quite incredible. Our lunch was lamb, rice, a cabbage salad, pierogi stuffed with potato and cheese,  and tatrski pyza z misesem which was a soup, with veal  filled dumplings.

Desert was the best poppy seed cake (called an envelope) which tasted like it just came out of the oven.
We also visited a Tatar muslim cemetery, and an orthodox Monastery, which will soon be closed to the public. All in all a very full day of unusual things.

My reactions, ranged from sadness, to anger, and incredulity. Those who left were the fortunate. What a fascinating day.