Tea Gardens & Tolstoy, at Tuckton in Dorset

by Sara Dobak | Dorset, Europe, United Kingdom

Along the river Stour estuary in Dorset, it’s not unusual to see a flurry of activity at any given time. It could be a synchronicity of oars from Christchurch Rowing Club on a Saturday morning, or a chorus of quacks and cackles from a medley of local wildfowl at...

Food with a View at the Cliffhanger Café in Highcliffe-on-Sea, Dorset

by Sara Dobak | Dorset, Europe, United Kingdom

On the southern fringes of the New Forest, where sandstone cliffs overlook the edge of the Solent Strait, sits one of my favourite eateries in Dorset. It’s only just in Dorset, mind, close to the Hampshire border, and I can’t even remember quite how I discovered it,...

Summertime Bees and Blooms – A Wildflower Meadow in Hampshire

by Sara Dobak | United Kingdom

This month has been a busy one beyond belief for me, for a hotchpotch of reasons, some good and others not so much. I’ve been industriously buzzing around sorting, organising, planning for everything from a likely house move, through a (not-looked-forward-to)...

Hindu Blessings at London’s Neasden Temple

by Sara Dobak | London

I’ve been to UK Hindu temples before, those converted community-hall type of temples you find in most urban population centres, where the shrines are modest and the furnishings sometimes a little frayed around the edges. I’d occasionally wondered if all such...