Tea & Gastronomy

The Blog

Short essays on our travels and tea,

random musings and rants

and galleries of our photography

Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

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You will find, from Elizabeth:

An ever-growing series about the Teas of the World
Travel essays and our musings on country and place
Good ol' fashioned philosophical rants and random but fun pieces

And from Vientiene, galleries of his photography.

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Jul 31
8 min

Generous Taiwan

Our visit to Taiwan in July 2018 was characterised by tea, dumplings and over-the-top kindness, plus a dose of intense history.

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Apr 28
9 min

Back to Basics in Busan (& Gallery 25)

In Busan, the second city of South Korea and our home for a few weeks in July 2018, we were deluged with ‘foreign’. And it was brilliant.

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Jan 26
11 min

4 Years Nomadic at an End: 2019's Year in Review & 2020's Big Plans

2019 was characterised for us as being a year of slow-travel, e-commerce and family - and making big plans for a move to Portugal in 2020!

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Oct 22, 2019
6 min

We finally own a tea shop!!

Today is a big day for us: the official launch of our own antioxidant-rich loose-leaf teashop, MatchaAlternatives.com!

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Jan 14, 2019
12 min

2018 Year in Review

12-15 minute read. Note: We are currently in southern France, house-sitting through April this year. // Welcome to 2019! The start of a n...

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May 24, 2018
10 min

Teas of the World: Pt 6 India (Living Kerala Series)

7 minute read. // India is one of the great tea producing nations in the world, and we were lucky enough to spend almost a year there thr...

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Jan 23, 2018
5 min

Teas of the World: A Tea Primer

They say tea is the most popular beverage in the world, after water. Saying water is the most popular, though, is to me like saying sunsh...

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Dec 31, 2017
5 min

2017 Accomplishments

In 2017, we visited the UK, the US, Denmark, Norway, Thailand, Japan, India and Hong Kong. Boy did we accomplish a lot. Such as... In 201...

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Sep 18, 2017
5 min

Teas of the World Pt 5: Japan (2 of 2: Tea Houses)

Picking up where we left off from the last installment on tea in Japan, here is the fourth and final lesson we learned during our five we...

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Sep 4, 2017
5 min

Teas of the World Pt 5: Japan (1 of 2)

Below you will find three of four ‘lessons’ about Japanese tea learned during our five week visit this April/May 2017. It is less academi...

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Jul 10, 2017
5 min

Teas of World: The Prequel (Spain)

A standard guide to tea drinking would not recommend that you start in Spain. It is a country of coffee drinkers, with over 82 variations...

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Jun 19, 2017
5 min

Teas of the World Pt 4: Thailand

We arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok at 7am, and our Airbnb at 8:30. This was far too early to check-in, so needed to kill some ...

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May 1, 2017
3 min

Teas of the World Pt 3: Norway

After the somewhat brutal experience of tea drinking in the US, mitigated only by the patience and bemused support from friends and famil...

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Feb 28, 2017
7 min

Teas of the World Pt 2: The US of A

It is probably unfair to have Part 2 be the USA when Part 1 was the UK. On the other hand, contrasts are useful… For the unaware, tea is ...

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Jan 16, 2017
5 min

Teas of the World Pt 1: The UK

Although tea appears to be simple, it is not. One bush, Camelia sinensis, gets put in hot water and then we drink it. Not so! Which is w...

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