Afternoon Tea. June 2015

When Val retired, one of her leaving gifts was a book of places to go for Afternoon Tea. We were looking through it while we were out for lunch. A friendly waitress recommended a place she'd seen advertised that was offering unlimited prosecco with afternoon tea, all for the bargain price of £24:99. Well ,it would have been rude not to. It was at the Tower Hotel, a place Lorna knew well as Ray had been involved in some work there.

We had a lovely stroll along the river, lots of people enjoying the bars and warm weather.

On our way to Tower Bridge.

     

Coffee stop on the way.

The bridge, the Shard and a famous statue called " The girl and the dolphin" . I forgot to look for the name of the sculptor.

The brilliant thing about London is how the old buildings rub shoulders with the new. It shouldn't work, but it does.

               

       

               

                  

We had a wander round St Catherine's Dock

                          

All very swish.

Ray was involved in the placement of this sundial. Apparently he and just one other man worked all night to get the placement right as it had to be lined up with the North Star to make sure it was in the correct position. He did a good job. 

             

Smile! 

Enjoying the sunshine.

Eventually we made our way to the hotel.

Tea time! 

A good selection.

Cheers! The first of several glasses.

Val and Lorna

Me and Charlotte.

No PG tips at this party.

             

On the menu it said "Unlimited Procsecco" the small print said------ for the first 40 mins. We must have struck lucky because that 40 mins turned into 2 hours and 2 bottles between 3 of us. We had to refuse  in the end. We'd never have got ourselves home! 

It was a lovely afternoon and we are already planning the next one.