What a Tranquil Place
Rose Cottage Tea Gardens, Torquay: No traffic, no wifi, instead simply a lovely garden with pond, ducks and an open-air piano in the picturesque, medieval village of Cockington near Torquay. Simply google TQ2 6XA. (They don’t even have a website).
Oh, dear ! Rose Cottage has come up for sale ! For £995’000, this cottage with thriving business and a solid customer base in medieval English village so old (and picturesque) it was mentioned in the Domesday Book (William the Conqueror’s census of 1068). The new owner is free to continue the business (Please let me know and I’ll happily look at teas with you) or to revert the area to a private garden with footbridge and brook (Please let me know if you intend to do this).
A Surprise on the Shelf
Tea can be tricky to prepare. A lot depends on the right amount of tea leaves, the correct water temperature and the precise brewing time. Especially wine and champagne drinkers often struggle to make their own tea and would prefer something that has already been prepared and is waiting at the perfect temperature until you pop the cork.
Even More Links to Come
The world of tea is such a wonderful place and such a wondrous place. Surely more links are to follow.