The Polish Art of Mushroom Picking or How to Avoid Getting Bitten by Hundreds of Mosquitoes!

With the damp weather comes pros and cons. The good thing is that this year there are thousands of mushrooms in the forests. However, the bad thing is there are also thousands of hungry, blood thirsty mosquitoes lurking below the trees!!! This doesn't seem to stop the Poles who over the past few weeks have been wandering into their local forests eager to find the prized mushrooms!!! As you can see, yours truly also headed into the forest...but instead of bringing back a bucket full of mushrooms...I brought back a neck FULL of bites!!! ;-)

"That's not a mushroom Agnieszka!"

The caption says it all! Our regular guest Patrick Skipton up to his usual tricks again...this time in the beautiful forests north of Toruń.

Mushroom picking is very popular around September every year, when hundreds of people flock to the neighbouring forests, buckets in hand...trying to find some scrumptious mushrooms to take home. There are many varieties of mushrooms in Polish forests...and you must be aware of which ones are edible and which ones are poisionous. Cases of mushroom poisioning are still quite common each year here in Poland.