With the laptop playing up and incredibly full days, my tea and travel travails have fallen a little behind. So, I intend a very short wrap of a very long day. Let’s see how that goes: We gave up on making our own tea. Knowing we had a full day trip ahead, we just headed to our usual spot for […]
FIRST CUP Between 5.30 and midday yesterday, we did enough to fill a day. We had a light breakfast at Il Caffe de Francesco. That’s the place mentioned in my first blog in Barcelona and until then the only place we found real loose leaf tea. I had a Mango tea and Lady D. enjoyed […]
Well, the first full day in Spain was full of shock and awe. We went to an amazing place. If you look at the first picture, I should say that the tiny-looking building you see is really big – a Catholic-flavoured resort. The idea is that pilgrims walk barefoot up the mountain, taking a few days, and then reflect in the […]
Well, so far this trip is about 37.5 hours old, and so few of them have been spent sleeping that I look like Marty Feldman, eye-wise. But there has been tea, and quite a lot of it. And all pretty good. We started at home with a lovely Lord Petersham. Just the thing after a […]
As a proud member of the Association of Tea Bloggers, there’s no way I’d miss the upcoming ‘blogger’s carnival’. Especially as I’m virtually the earliest blogger in the whole group, dateline wise. So each day occurs earlier for me than almost all of the others. I’ll get in there first and kick it off. So, the assignment is simple, they’ve set the topic, and it’s […]
I have a terrible problem at times with lack of focus. In a sustained burst. I can get huge quantities of work done. But if something interesting happens whilst I’m trying to do it, or I get a sudden inspiration, then I can just skip away. Projects that are delayed might never happen, as I get involved […]
PART ONE: As I write this, I am sitting in a café with no internet connection and really bad tea. The café itself is lovely with good food, great ambiance, live jazz at times, decent coffee and some unusual beverages. More on those later. Excuse me whilst I lick the delicious milk foam from my lips. […]
As regular readers – yes, I’m talking to you – will know, myself and Lady Devotea share a love of history. We have a wide range of historical interests; and our interests lie pretty well with the last 6000 years or so. Before that. as humanity was yet to invent the wheel, fire, the aloe vera-soaked facial tissue […]
In a few short weeks, we will arrive in London. This is after a couple of weeks in Spain, where I will explain that their economic problems are due to their not drinking enough tea. It’s my own theory and I am hoping for World Bank grant to study it. Let’s say $3m, guys. So, London, steeped with tea history. And all sorts of […]
Today, a quick post about Lady Devotea. Not the @LadyDevotea , my better half, but the tea named in her honour. The first photo shows where it starts: It’s our orange tree. It’s an odd tree, it has several crops per year, and often it has several different types of orange per crop. It’s either a clever hybrid, or a new […]