Tag Archives: Chinese tea

Summer 2018 – Back Home

Our plans for the latter stages of our end of vacation mini road trip were modified during a pit stop for ice-cream and cold drinks at the famous Håverud aqueduct.

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Summer 2018 – The Poet and the Vacuum Flask

After Linköping (see previous post), the next stop on our meandering, round-the-houses, homeward bound road trip was Karlstad, which is situated on the shores of Lake Vänern.

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Summer 2018 – Chin Chin, I Shall Miss You

All good things must come to an end, and that is just as true for tea soaked holidays as it is anything else.

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Summer 2018 – Cliff Tea, Swedish Style

“Oh, there you are!”, I breathlessly exclaimed, much in the style of Alice encountering a person sized, cognisant chess piece hiding under a giant mushroom.

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Summer 2018 – All Yellow

I’m awakened by the sunlight barging in through the somewhat flimsy curtains, as well as the cacophony produced by a motley assortment of squawking and buzzing birds and insects.

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Summer 2018 – Part 1

The early days of the holiday soon settled into a nice routine.

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2013 Xiaguan T8653

I’ve actually had this cake for some time now. I bought it in January 2017, after spotting it on the old Canton Tea site.

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2015 Dayi V93

I found this 100 gram tuo at local tea shop Möllans Te.

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2011 Man Nong Shou

This was yet another purchase from perennial favourites House of Tea.

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Mei Leaf Young Gushu 2017

This was the tea I bought at the Mei Leaf teahouse in Camden, London, during our Easter 2018 trip to England.

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