A month later, more of the same! What a mushroom season around here!

 It is now November in Istria and we continue visiting our numerous mushroom spots in turn, first for the interesting walks in the very nice forests, and then for the incredible recipes that we are eating everyday based on all sorts of mushrooms. This time, we have been exploring the are around the airport of Pula, just a few kilometres from home...  

And we found another untouched spot, probably too close to the city for having attracted the mushroom lovers looking for unexplored forests, as there is a fierce competition for foraging...

At the end of the day, we got 2.2 kg of yellow chanterelles (girolles), one nice boletus, one of the first of the season, and other black chanterelles and pieds de moutons.

There were so much mushrooms, that we did not spend much time in the forest to clean them before putting them in the basket. It took hours then to clean them back home, before setting the drier for couple of days to absorb the harvest.

On another occasion, we went in a different are, more inland and got another impressive arvest, but with different species. This time, we got a lot of pieds de moutons, probably more than 2 kilos, a very tasty species which belong to the chanterelle family. And again a lot of black chanterelles, which we dried, and the first Yellow tube chanterelles (in the centre), which we were so used to pick in Sweden. This is because these chanterelles like the cold weather, so they are a bit late in Croatia while they were present in huge quantities all along the autumn in Sweden.

Well, these are our autumn days, in the forest for couple of hours almost everyday, while nights are devoted more than ever at developing guidelines and tools for crisis management in the Middle-East, learning how artificial intelligence is revolutionising the way we work. 

Belisama is doing fine in her harbour in Pula! Looking forward planning the next season in these waters!