Tea table & view out our over our gardenWe got word earlier this week that hubby’s boss would be bringing 4 clients out to the farm today. We grow seed beans for export to Europe, and these are 4 of the company’s French clients. They came out for a tour of the farm (stopping to look at and walk through the bean fields) followed by afternoon tea at the house. Luckily it wasn’t raining and the skies were a lovely African blue, and the garden was looking fresh and neat as Hemmed had just mowed the lawn and watered all the flower beds for me this morning.
The clients just arrived in Tanzania on the KLM flight last night (via Amsterdam – KLM fly daily to Tanzania from Amsterdam and this is the flight we usually use when we go to the UK on holiday. Ahhhh … holiday. Just typing that word makes me feel like going on another one soon.) But anyway, back to the tea …..
First time visitors to Africa (as some of these clients today were) are always struck by the sheer vastness and wide open spaces we have here, and as we have a really nice view from the veranda of the house, I always like to serve refreshments there (rather than from, say, underneath a tree at the bottom of the garden) - especially for first time visitors to the farm. The view from here stretches out over rolling hills and valleys as far as the eye can see, with Mt Meru to the left (and Kilimanjaro behind us, a little to the right) and is really breathtaking. (I wish I could photograph it to show you, but photo’s just don’t do it any justice !)
So, for the actual ‘refreshments’, I served a big pot of Tanzanian tea and another of delicious Tanzanian filter coffee and baked a chocolate cake to go with it. It went down a treat and after an enjoyable hour or so chatting on the veranda (it’s always nice to meet new people and hear news from their part of the world) they all left just before the sun set on yet another African day ……
The clients just arrived in Tanzania on the KLM flight last night (via Amsterdam – KLM fly daily to Tanzania from Amsterdam and this is the flight we usually use when we go to the UK on holiday. Ahhhh … holiday. Just typing that word makes me feel like going on another one soon.) But anyway, back to the tea …..
First time visitors to Africa (as some of these clients today were) are always struck by the sheer vastness and wide open spaces we have here, and as we have a really nice view from the veranda of the house, I always like to serve refreshments there (rather than from, say, underneath a tree at the bottom of the garden) - especially for first time visitors to the farm. The view from here stretches out over rolling hills and valleys as far as the eye can see, with Mt Meru to the left (and Kilimanjaro behind us, a little to the right) and is really breathtaking. (I wish I could photograph it to show you, but photo’s just don’t do it any justice !)
So, for the actual ‘refreshments’, I served a big pot of Tanzanian tea and another of delicious Tanzanian filter coffee and baked a chocolate cake to go with it. It went down a treat and after an enjoyable hour or so chatting on the veranda (it’s always nice to meet new people and hear news from their part of the world) they all left just before the sun set on yet another African day ……
