Its a pink October...and time to celebrate with afternoon tea!
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| Ready for afternoon tea in my pink tea dress! |
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| Our lovely Birthday Girl...Rachael! |
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| Yerka and Rachael.....I love that painting in the middle! |
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| Rachael and me.... |
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| Afternoon tea at the Washington Mayfair Hotel.... |
Deciding to surprise our lovely Rachael with a little birthday celebration, we had only told her a date, time and a tube station where we were meeting, so she actually had no idea what would happen or where we were taking her! Trusting us in a little adventurous mystery, she was surprised to find herself sitting down for afternoon tea at the Washington Mayfair Hotel....as surely we would have taken her to the Ritz for that right? In all honesty whilst booking the afternoon tea I had considered the Ritz, but I thought the obvious-ness of the Ritz dissolved an element of surprise and somehow being so well known I was worried as to whether we would be allowed the time to take tea at our own pace. Plus knowing us....when we do take tea at our own pace, it really is at a very relaxing own pace.....as we arrived for 4.30pm only to stay to about 9.30pm! And I cannot praisingly commend the staff of the Washington Mayfair Hotel enough for their utter attentiveness and kind tolerance when we lost sight of all time, chatting and drinking tea to our hearts' content with the many refills they obligingly provided without so much as a 'tut'. So much so that I imagined if we had been back in time during the Edwardian era, this is perhaps how we would have felt by taking tea at our leisure catching up on the latest gossip in our lives or discussing the issues concerning women at our time. We ordered the Mayfair Tea which came with a tea selection that included white tea, as well as sandwiches, scones, crisps and cakes. The sandwiches were freshly made, the cakes were not too sweet and the scones were a warmth of yumminess that melted in our mouths. But most of all, nothing seemed too much for the staff who were so kindly ready to help; as when Naoko joined us a little later with a bouquet of fresh flowers for Rachael the waitress had instinctively brought over a glass of water to put the flowers in and made us feel utterly at ease the whole time. Even the view of the un-scenic scaffolding could not dampen our spirits of a celebration and ourlove of a good girlie catch-up! So all in all, the Washington Mayfair Hotel deserves a very high 4 ♥♥♥♥ out of
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| Rachael's surprise Birthday tea at the Washington Mayfair Hotel, London. |
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| The Mayfair Afternoon Tea....with white tea, scones, sandwiches, macaroons, cakes, crisps, jam and strawberries with clotted cream. |
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| Yerka and me... |
Until the next time,
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