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| Posted by: supersi |
Thursday, May 24, 2007 |
One of the things we like most about Greenwich is all the little cafes, restaurants and boutique stores. Our favourite Saturday morning routine is pastries and coffee at one of the little spots round the corner. This past weekend we went to a café called Royal Teas. The writing on the front window tells the full story:
Once upon a time there was and still is, just,
a little treasure called Royal Teas
in the enchanted land of Greenwich.
But like all fairy tales there are the good guys
and the bad. In case you were wondering,
we are the former.
A dark force has emerged threatening
our existence. Boo! But we play to fight. Hurrah!
On a special diet of cheesy bread and carrot cake
and with you at our side we shall be victorious.
So there – grab your carrot cake and your latte and join the resistance! Uh, yeah… some people just get *way* too carried away with their coffee. Or tea, as the case may be.
Since it was also our anniversary (our last just the two of us!), we spent the afternoon in London and had dinner at the Savoy hotel on the Strand. Afterwards we went for a walk to Covent Garden and, pretending to be tourists, went on one of those rickshaw bike rides. On a little 30 minute tour, the guy took us to Buckingham Palace, Westminster, Trafalgar Square and then to Charing Cross for only £10! He even pointed out with running commentary all the sites along the way and asked us about Canada. It was great fun.
As for next Saturday morning, it’s a toss up between another café and re-enacting a Monty Python skit at the local cheese shop :)
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Re: Royal Teas |
By Kelly Marshall Nee Yeomans on
Monday, May 28, 2007 |
| too funny, Over there i would say tea! You must have done some serious hunting, because i spent 2 weeks in England (1 in London) and never found a good cup of coffee. Lot's of tea and sweets though. Hope you are well! |
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Re: Royal Teas |
By supersi on
Monday, May 28, 2007 |
| There *is* good coffee here - the problem is there's no cream to go with it! We spent months searching for the right cream. There's double cream, single cream, clotted cream, every kind of cream you could imagine. But it's supposed to be poured onto dessert (aka, "pudding"), not put into your coffee! We finally found the proper equivalent to our coffee cream, called "half cream". Shelf life is only a week though, not two months like in Canada... hmmm... makes you wonder what they put into a carton of half-and-half! |
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