Tea plantation tour
Wildfox
Anthony Swanston
Tue 4 Apr 2017 09:23
With some
friends I visit a tea garden and end up tasting 29 different teas. The story as to why it is called the Virgin
Tea Garden is interesting - please see photograph. The machinery
in the factory is original and is still used every day. At 145 years old they knew how to build
things to last at the Sirroco Works in Belfast. Tea bushes themselves are boring but they
have interspersed them with some nice flowers.
There is
still no wind and none forecast for a while yet anyway. All of the boats which have left here for the
Maldives have motored the whole way – about 400 nautical miles.
I am
thinking about going back east…
