NEIL Oliver, the long-haired one with the Scottish accent from the BBC’s Coast series, is on the road with his own solo stage show, The Story of the British Isles in 100 Places, coming to Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre on Saturday 10th November, at 7.30pm. Neil was born in Renfrewshire and studied archaeology, before becoming…
JENNIFER Coombs, a former High Sheriff of Dorset, comes to Tollard Talks in the barn at Tollard House, Tollard Royal, on Thursday 18th October, to give a talk called From High Sheriff to High Seas. At the beginning of this year Jennifer made a six-week, 6,500km sailing trip across the wild, windswept South Atlantic to…
COLIN Stafford-Johnson has had a lifelong passion for wildlife which has taken him from his native west coast of Ireland to the forests of India – and now he is coming to Frome’s Cheese and Grain on Friday 19th October as part of his first ever live tour of the UK. He grew up loving…
LEADING figures involved in national and international river and water campaigns will be at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, on Thursday 11th October for a panel discussion after the screening of an important documentary film. Blue Heart: The Fight for Europe’s Last Wild Rivers aims to raise public awareness about the negative impact of the…
THE Banff Mountain Ocean Film Festival starts the local dates of its autumn tour on 5th September at Exeter Corn Exchange, with a new selection of films featuring seafaring adventurers rowing treacherous oceans, intrepid surfers riding the world’s biggest waves, and glimpses of the planet’s spectacular hidden depths. The Ocean Film Festival World Tour began…
SOME of the country’s finest cheese makers, including Montgomery and Westcombe, will be featured on a special five-day tour, Cheese Journeys, introducing cheese lovers to the unique culinary culture of Somerset. The Cheese Journeys visit in April 2019 will include cheesemarkers and affineurs, and begins at London’s historic Borough Market, including a visit to Neal’s…
THE Regent Centre in Christchurch is showing the British Backpacker Society’s documentary, Across The Safari, filmed by and starring three former Highcliffe School pupils on Monday 13th August at 7.30pm. The feature-length documentary film covers the team’s overland expedition through the world’s largest sand-desert in March 2017. The journey takes the team to Morocco, the Western…
THE beaches of Normandy may resonate around the world with the history of the D-Day landings but before and since those momentous days of 1944, its sands have been associated with happier events. Just along the coast from the likes of Omaha and Sword, the little town of Trouville – correctly Trouville-sur-Mer – and its…
Philippa Davis doesn’t just cook for clients – she also eats, adventurously and enthusiastically. She has recently returned from a working visit to Singapore and South East Asia – here are some of her recommended culinary do’s and don’ts… UNDOUBTEDLY it is as important to know what to eat as where to eat, especially if…
OVER the years, whether we have been travelling in Europe, America, the Middle East or Western Australia, we have found that the best advice to find unusual historic buildings, extraordinary landscapes, great places to eat, quirky shops or galleries or other hidden gems, has come from people we have met. We use maps (not GPS)…