Tea at breakfast. Tea at lunch. Tea at dinner. That's what I'm excited for! - was my status on facebook a week before I left for England and the United Kingdom.
And I was so right to be excited! The original purpose of Afternoon Tea was nourishment after the morning hunt and before the dinner feast and drinking. And boy - was I sustained for most of the evening and in a food coma for the rest of the day.
To start with you get two scones - which you should cut in half and cover with the most amazing and rich creame - that soak into the scone. Then you cover that with jam and the jam with creame. The scones are so filling and worth it. After the scones, come endless supplies of sandwich towers with so many variations. There's salmon, ham, vegetable, and a few other variates of non-crust sandwich.
During this process you drink tea. Then there's plates of sweets - custard filled dough balls, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, chocolate eclairs, chocolate square drizzled with chocolate, and many others. You eat your fill of those. By the time you've already eaten so much you're thinking I can't have another bit but you can't stop eating.
Then there's the copious amounts of delicious tea you drink. By the end you are so full you can barely think let alone want to move.
It was fantastic! Not to mention at a beautiful hotel. We were put in the basement tea rooms which have red carpeted stairs that lead to them - and the stairs have a curtain that can be drawn across for extra privacy. There are many paintings on the walls, gilded trim, and the ceiling is beautiful. The Gore Hotel is an amazing example of architecture.
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| The tea room. I'm not pleased with the blurry crap my camera pulled but here is it. Hope yo cna see the beauty of it. |
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| One of the tapestries on the walls. |
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| The family. |
Good day sirs and gentlewomen.
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