How very civilized!

[indigo_rose99]

In Staunton, Virginia, there is a restaurant called the Beverley. Several weekdays every week, they offer "Tea". I'm sure this was originally a scheme to drum up business during slow hours. For something like $5 (20 years ago), we could get a bottomless pot of tea, cute little sandwiches, and an endless variety of sweets. Since they varied every day and sometimes in the middle of tea, I always suspected that it was whatever the chef felt like making. We would typically eat until we could barely walk. It was lovely.

Since then, I have not had the same "tea" experience. Until now. It turns out that every day at 3:30pm, there is a room on our cruise that offers tea. Proper tea. White-coated waiters bear more tea than we can drink, trays of tiny scones (with cream and jam!), trays of tiny sandwiches with no crusts, trays of tiny tarts and cakes and pies... And they keep coming back to offer us more.

I don't think I can fit into the clothes I wore as I walked onto the cruise ship.

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[chikuru.livejournal.com]

Lyn and I also took Tea one afternoon on our cruise. It was one of many highlights.

[aurienne.livejournal.com]

I remember the Beverly -- wasn't everything in Staunton called Beverly - instead of Main Street it was Beverly street, so lots of stores took their name from that -- I think I remember hearing it was some city-planner's revenge after he was dumped by a Beverly?