Photoset: Mushroom season 2024

This autumn Iโ€™ve been enjoying lots of long nature walks in some of the woods around the city of Belgrade, Serbia. At the moment of writing weโ€™re at the height of the mushroom season, making the forests positively magical. And so in my latest blog post Iโ€™m taking you along, showing you some of my recent finds.

Book review: “In Search of Mycotopia” by Doug Bierend

Over the past three years, possibly as an unexpected effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, lockdowns and social distancing, Iโ€™ve found myself exploring something Iโ€™d never expressed much interest in: mushrooms. It began innocently enough: as I started taking my solitary nature walks, I also started noticing these silent and elusive creatures of vastly different colour, …