A Bit of Wonderland

I did one of my whirlwind London visits, though not quite as whirlwind as the past. Three full days. The focus of this was to see friends and that’s what I did. There will be more on that, plus a quick visit to Liberty and some other bits soon. Right now, I’m just tired and can only come up with a small post.

On the evening of the day I arrived – that day was gorgeous at 17 degrees C, the warmest we’ve had a long while – I met up with a friend I actually first met through our sons at nursery – ie, they became friends and then we did (so, 20 odd years ago).

Anyway, the evening meet up was for an afternoon tea, though we had it for dinner.

Probably one of the most fun and nicest food-wise teas I’ve ever had.

It was called the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party and was in a small Alice-ish room at the Sanderson hotel in central London.

As with afternoon teas we had sandwiches, scones, pastries and tea. Everything AiW themed.

The sandwiches were glorious. Mashed aubergine (eggplant), onion chutney, chicken etc all on different breads, like carrot and fancy white.

The scones were nice scones – the least interesting part of things, though scones are always nice unless they are dry (as happened on day 2).

The pastries were awesome: an Alice tea cup made of chocolate with goo inside, a weird blue drink that my friend tried but I didn’t, a chess Battenburg, a Queen of Hearts wobbly vanilla and lemongrass crème. I would go back there in a London second.

It all started with this strange smoking drink which was blue and then turned purple when you dropped lemon juice in it.

We had such an incredible time catching up.

If you find yourself visiting London this is not cheap but it is so worth it for a celebration of whatever (in this case, a long friendship).

Pics: mine and pexels