I have always been a tea drinker…tried drinking coffee but it always seems to disagree with me! But when I was younger, tea consisted of a good old fashioned tea bag with a dash of milk. I always loved the idea of brewing tea in a beautiful teapot, but didn’t even really do that until […]
Despite being an avid tea drinker, I had never heard of Pu-erh until it was mentioned at the Tea 101 course with Sarah from Teasense which we did last November! Since then, we have been lucky enough to try some at both Storm in a Teacup and Travelling Samovar, and loved it…and wanted to know […]
After not doing much over the last few weeks because of the heat…and because we both weren’t feeling the best…we decided we needed some “tea time” and headed to one of our favourite tea destinations…Storm in a Teacup in Collingwood. Had heard that they had just received a delivery of a pu erh tea…so that […]
Update 15/11/2016 – Sadly, the Travelling Samovar Tea House is now closed. Today, we had a fascinating tea “experience” at the Travelling Samovar Tea House in Carlton North! We tried some of the “tasting” teas…I liked this one… Then as the day was heating up quickly outside, we decided to settle in a nice cool […]