
A good tea person will always be ready to adapt his or her tea making technique as circumstances dictate, and this is never more true as when you’re away from home.

A good tea person will always be ready to adapt his or her tea making technique as circumstances dictate, and this is never more true as when you’re away from home.

I woke up to a faultless blue sky, and a low blanket of sea mist carpeting the grassy area that sits behind the beach opposite our home.

May Day, widely recognised as the first proper day of spring hereabouts, dawned bright and somewhat breezy.

Last night, the 30th of April, Valborg, or Walpurgis Night as it is known in English, was celebrated here in Sweden.

I was drinking my early morning pot of green tea when a thought occurred – I’d only used the tea boat from the clay teaware collection I picked up in Stockholm last month. Continue reading

This was a follow on experiment from my earlier attempt to flavour loose leaf shou Pu-erh tea with dried chrysanthemum flowers.
The idea itself was inspired by the fact that it is possible to buy shou Pu-erh artfully wrapped in the complete peel of a mandarin.