Happy Birthday Maria...

The London weather chose to be on glorious form for Maria’s (Grigoria’s sister) birthday.
The sun was shining (temperatures reached a high of 25 degrees) but a nice breeze made sure we did not get too hot.

To celebrate the occasion Maria decided we should have some proper English afternoon tea (Blair was lobbying for a picnic in the park but to no avail).
The establishment of choice was The Tea Palace (http://www.teapalace.co.uk/).

The space was modern and simple with the emphasis being on the huge number of different tea varieties (the tea catalogue alone was around 15 pages long!) they offered.

We all chose the palace afternoon tea (yet again our eyes were bigger than our stomachs!) and everyone selected a different tea.


Everything was fantastic and the prize of most colourful tea choice went to Blair with a brightly coloured strawberry and raspberry tea!

Happy birthday Maria!!