Well the time has come to talk about tea. We like drinking tea almost as much as we like drinking Wherry (it all depends on the time of day) so we looked forward to visiting tea country on our trip. Our overwhelming impression was that tea bushes are very fortunate as they get to look out on some stunning views and spend their days soaking up the sun. Our cycle ride through tea country took us over the Western Ghats and boy did we want to store those fantastic mountain views in our minds to recall on cold, wet and dark days (like today). A second memorable thing about tea bushes was that we had never seen anything similar growing at home yet we've drunk Yorkshire tea on many occasions. Now, just where are those bushes growing in Yorkshire? We will have to look harder when we next visit.
The third memory we took away from our cycle through tea country was the chink chinking sound of the tea pickers' sheers providing a musical accompaniment as we pedalled along. The tea pickers, who all seemed to be friendly ladies, had some very innovative sheers. They had containers attached to them that the snipped tea leaves fell into so they didn't have to stop very often to collect what they had snipped.
We thought some of our readers might not have seen a tea bush growing so we thought we would take a picture of ourselves in a tea bush about to lend the ladies a hand with some tea leaf picking.
Love George & Yorkie xxx
No comments:
Post a Comment