Moving freely in the woods collecting mushrooms – healthy luxury life in Finland

Great day for a walk in the Finnish forest – and collecting mushrooms. This is the time for funnel chanterelles or winter mushrooms as they are sometimes also called. And yes, here in Finland one is free to move in the terrain, private and public, just staying at a respectful distance from the very immediate surroundings of peoples’ homes.

Much of the forest areas are also still owned by the government, the present coalition has not yet succeeded to sell them abroad in their privatizing frenzy…

The rather small funnel chanterelles are hard to detect but once found they tend to flock in large numbers around the same place. Today’s excursion was to a forest area some 30 kms east of Finnish capital Helsinki. And no, we neither saw nor heard anyone else out there during the 3 hours stay, only heard some distant bird sounds.