grunewald

The Grunewald is enormous! It is a forest on the edge of Berlin with lots of really tall trees and hardly any undergrowth. I think this is the way with forests here, not like in Oregon where there is so much undergrowth that you get stuck trying to just walk through.

Lots of neat things live in the forest. There are woodpeckers, deer, and wild boars! We saw some boars when we were out hiking hte other day but Triffid was too slow with the camera. There was a dad, mom, and a baby. Actually it was probably a teenager in boar years. It was all walking behind, not wanting to be seen with its embarrassing parents.

There were also tons of mushrooms. We were on the lookout for morels or pfifferlinge, but we didn't find any. Too bad. Pfifferlinge are the local mushroom specialty. Every cafe advertises them on their daily menus and we wanted some on the cheap.