NEVER TOUCH ANOTHER MANS NUTS

Never touch another man’s nuts, sage advice for walnut gathering here in Bulgaria. There is a Walnut etiquette here we’ve been learning, any tree on the outside/roadside  boundary of a property is considered off-limits to Walnut pickers and belonging to that property. Communal land, of which there is plenty in villages, our village has about 50,000 m2 of Walnut plantation that any resident of the village can pick for themselves, outsiders would be chased away with specially bred Rabid  dogs and Tetanus enriched pitch forks!!

The old fathers of my village planted many Walnut trees along the West and Southern edge of the village communal land some 20 or 30 years ago as well as inside the village. Also looking at satellite photos to find the  old inter-village roads of yore that are seldom used today, these old disused roads were almost all lined with Walnut trees.

Today, whilst out Wombling (If you have to ask what a Womble is, then your far too old or “Grown-up” to read this blog.) we walked a little way along one of the old tree-lined roads.

The trees belong to the local Municipality, if you live in the local Municipality you are free to pick them, this particular old road is 4 miles (5KM) long.

I’ve seen other old disused roads on the satellite photos and we shall explore those another day, we didn’t walk very far along this road because our pockets and Womble bag were soon full of Walnuts. Linda and I are new to Wombling, taking our inspiration from friends in other villages, we really should bring more bags with us, or the car!!

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With so much interest in the Wombles from 40 years ago, they are still going and were this years hit at The Glastonbury Festival 2011, you just cant make this stuff up 🙂

~ by travelswithmymotorbike on December 11, 2011.