While I was in Cape Town last month, I was lucky enough to spend some time with my new tea friend Hajira Khalfe who owns the city’s first speciality tea room, Tea Emporium.  With a background in health and nutrition, Hajira has cleverly taken the theme… read more...

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How wonderfully relaxing Sundays can be!  It’s the one day of the week when there’s time to chat and enjoy bowls or cups of tea with special friends!  This Sunday I was treated to Chinese-style ‘afternoon tea’ by Bin Shao, my Chinese friend who sells the fabulous Mao Jian tea that I wrote about last time.  He took me to Royal China on London’s

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How I love London in summer!  The hesitant sun this year has kept temperatures… read more...

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 Just over two weeks ago, I wrote that I was enjoying the cool, calm  interior of Babington’s tearoom in Rome.  I first visited this peaceful, very English tearoom (here it is on the left) some 7 or 8 years ago and fell… read more...

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May has been a whirlwind month for me this year - two days after returning home from Las Vegas and San Diego, I flew out to Japan for a week of events in Tokyo and had a wonderful few days in some of the city’s best-known tea locations

After 20 years of interest, Japanese women are still fascinated by British… read more...

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As I leave home today to travel to Chicago for the House Wares show there, I am sad that I shall not be in London for the memorial service on Monday next week for my lovely friend Amber McCarroll who so sadly died from cancer at the end of last year. Amber and I did so much together… read more...

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My travels to promote the FINE T machine with Meyer Group took me two weeks ago to the ‘Ambiente’ International Home & Housewares Show in Frankfurt. The skies were leaden, the town white with snow as our coach pulled into the vast car park on my first morning there, and as our group made its way through miles… read more...

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In the late summer of last year, I was asked by the Tea Board of India in London to develop a programme of events that would teach children about the tea gardens in Darjeeling, Assam and Nilgiri and inspire them to drink the teas that are made there.

At that time, my wonderful friend Amber Mccarroll had just published the… read more...

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You’ll know from previous blogs that Postcard Teas in central London is a very special tea shop. Not only does its owner Tim d’Offay (pictured left) sell extremely high quality teas from some unusual origins, he also has on show and on sale within his exquisite store some extraordinarily beautiful tea objects and equipage. For some time… read more...

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I said last time I wrote that I would tell you about some of the teashops and tearooms that I visited while I was in South Korea. So here’s just a little about some of the traditional teashops and the Western-style tea rooms where I sipped tea with friends while I was in Seoul.

When I discovered… read more...

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