The woodcutters and gold prospectors may be long gone, but travellers can still relive this fascinating historic era through a series of forest walking trails that evoke the vanished world of the woodcutters, winding beneath the canopy along rust-coloured streams dappled with sun and shadow.

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In the gloom of nature, a man with a hunting rifle was walking through sparse forest.

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"The Cabernet blend has that rich, complex smell, like you are walking in the forest after it's just rained, " she explained.

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Popular pastimes like collecting berries and mushrooms and walking in the forest are forbidden in contaminated areas but as time progresses the radiation signs are often ignored.

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Or simply by walking near his home in the idyllic Black Forest, a short drive from the French border and Strasbourg.

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The Internet has littered the forest floor with the dry kindling wood of creation, and entrepreneurs are walking through throwing lit matches.

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Walking beneath them is like being in the midst of a fluorescent forest.

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Walking through a field of boulders, we took in a vista of blue lakes, green forest and snow-capped peaks.

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