Author: Robert Godden
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Brexit. Tea. Envy. Loss. Coffee. Really.
My preferred title for this blog post was just too long, so let’s just enjoy it here: Brexit, Elections, The Politics of Loss and the Implications in the Marketing War between Tea and Coffee. DISCLAIMER: many of you are used to my habit of (a) adding a little tea to make a long-winded rant about something…
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Penang: Over and Out
My last blog – before the Pictorial Interlude – ended with Lady Devotea and I in Little India, Georgetown, Penang, hailing a cab to go back to our accommodation. Over dinner, we’d discussed the idea that we would do something in morning and then head back to take it easy for a few hours before…
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A Pictorial Interlude
My last blog post was a bit of a teaser on our last night in Penang. Then… nothing for two weeks! I’m sorry about that. A combination of lack of time and illness and then technical difficulties at my scheduled blogging time meant I missed last week’s entry. As I work to rectify that, I…
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I said “Kapitan”.
I have a passport that says I have never been to India. However, standing in a confusion of sounds and sights that suggested otherwise, we soaked up music, dialects, scents, the sound of blaring car horns and parping motorbike horns, rows of saree shops and grocers with spices piled high. Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam all combine to…
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Eastern, Western and Oriental
It is obligatory, when travelling, to enjoy an afternoon tea. Admittedly, it’s not always easy. If you’re in London, it’s easy to find. The Australian Antarctic Territory, not so. Most places are somewhere in between, and Penang certainly is. The afternoon tea to be had in Georgetown is that at the ‘1885’ tea room at…
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A Tale of Two Teapots
I bought with me on this trip a tin of “Love of My Life 2016”. Most years around Valentine’s Day, I like to come up with a unique blend. This year, due to using some ingredients from our own garden that were in short supply, I was only able to make 6 small tins, so…
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Synopsis Of Stuff
Yesterday, I did not blog. This is because for about 14 hours between the very end of Lady Devotea and I’s 30th anniversary day and dragging myself up yesterday afternoon, I was quite unwell. This also led to a large backlog of work emails and other nonsense, which means that I can’t really share a…
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The Sliding Doors Moment
The cup of tea in the image above is the Marrakech Mint at China House, Georgetown, Penang. It was terrible, but that doesn’t matter. In fact, apart from a revisit to the Tea Blog experience of a couple of days ago (honey and black pearl red tea this time) I didn’t get any good tea on…
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Drink Tea Like a Boss
The image at the top of this post is a swimming pool we spent some time in and around yesterday, and during the day, a theme for today’s post coalesced in my mind. Too bad, it will have to wait, because life had other plans. A day of relaxing and local wandering involved a lot…
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Sweet Teadom
Well, here we are in Penang, Malaysia, and I spent yesterday drinking plenty of tea. My Lady and I had decided to get a good night’s sleep (you can translate that as ‘arrived near comatose’ if you like) and so my first tea -a Finbarr’s Revenge from our own supply- got things cracking for me…