Like Bears in the Night we went for an adventure!
One fine day my friend Sam and I set out to go for a picnic in the forest. Unfortunately our hair is not golden and we didn't find any porridge. But we did find a lot of mushrooms. Mushroom picking is a great Swedish tradition along with 'Allemansrätten' the Swedish Right of Public Access. This means that you have the right to wander through the woods and forests (even if it is private land) as long as you do not disturb or destroy anything. But it also means that you can pick wild mushrooms and berries to your hearts content. Now the problem with this is that unless you are Swedish, or know your mushrooms very well, you could accidentally pick some deadly varieties e.g. death cap (safe to say it's usually good to avoid anything with 'death' in the title, not that they have a flashing neon sign above them telling you what they are). Anyway, due to the numerous varieties of mushrooms out there (more than just the button mushrooms in Aussie supermarkets), we two who are not Swedish, and do not know much about mushrooms, just took lots of photos instead.
Our destination was Skryllegården near Södra Sandby (just up the road), which is a nature reserve with walking tracks through it. The forests are full of poplar trees, oaks and pines which are beautiful in the autumn as all the leaves turn. Luckily it was a sunny day for us and we had our picnic of Vietnamese fresh spring rolls and Sam's garden salad (all yummy things from Sam's garden, except the turkey). We walked and walked and took many many pictures of mushrooms, moss and trees. Then we got slightly lost. I guess we weren't on the loop track that we thought we were on. Oops. But we made it back in the end, it seems that nothing ate our trail of breadcrumbs after all. Overall it was a lovely day and I thought you might appreciate seeing some of the 'bush'!The second part to the set of photos (starting with the playground) are of near my house and of the walk to the shops. After every Canberra autumn I had always regretted not taking any photos, especially around Ainslie. So yesterday I put on my tourist attitude and walked to the shops which are about 15 minutes away (with little legs) and took photos on the way. This suburb is full of bike paths and can get very confusing as one way looks much like all the others.
When the good camera comes back from South Africa (with the man attached to it :-)) I shall try to take some photos of the city as well.
And don't forget, it is only 9 more (Swedish) sleeps until my Birthday!!!! Hooray! As most of you know, I love birthdays and get very excited, let the countdown begin! Not that I haven't been counting down for the last 365 days anyway:-)
* Bears in the Night - Stan & Jan Berenstain.
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