Blue berries in the Bolimow forest

Walking into the Bolimow forest you see the signs of war - zig zag lines indicating where soldiers once had dug trenches.

Some may have been from the First World War, others from the Second World War.

Walking deeper into this quiet forest, you couldn't avoid thinking about the lives and deaths of soldiers and civilians in here.

Then I was told a story that perhaps some of you can verify.

The blue berries you see on this photo, ripe when we were there in the beginning of July, supposedly are not part of the Polish local flora, but come from Russia.
According to the story, the Russian soldiers had brought dried berries from home to make tea from.

Now these berries may be a last greeting from many of those Russian soldiers who never made it home.