I love a proper tea: loose leaf with silver strainer, sugar tongs for the cubes, cookies, scones, and nicely cut little sandwiches on a multi-level stand.
One of the nicest teas I’ve ever had was at the Pump Room at Bath. The Ritz Carlton at Tyson’s Corner in Virginia also does a lovely, but incredibly expensive tea that’s best saved for special occasions.
Twinings is nice; their Prince of Wales is one of my favorites, and the Russian Caravan is the only tea I ever like with lemon. What I always like to do while in England is gather up as many types of tea not available in the States as I can; I come home with half my suitcase filled with bags and tins of teas that I can never find again the next time I go over.
I like the loose Harney & Sons Earl Grey. My mom went to China and brought me back Longjing tea - Dragon’s breath or something like that. I just don’t like green tea that much. I’m going to have to learn, but this tastes like boiled hair.
Tetleys or PG Tips do me just fine, none of that fancy stuff for me thank you. It it just me or does tea always taste nicer along with a bacon roll? Preferrably a buttery roll ( and I don’t mean a roll with butter on it ) oh and a cigarette.
We have free hot water here at work, but the only teabags they have are Lipton (or, “The Bitter Tea of General Yen”). So I bring in good teas myself, at my desk: Jacksons of Piccadilly’s Jasmine; Bigelow’s French Vanilla; and box of loose China Jasmine a friend in England sent to my mother.
