Bye Bye England

I'm off to South America now where I plan to do as little travelling as possible, mainly because it seems like a nice place to sit on a beach and go diving and drink nice fruity yogurty drinks. Arriving into Bogota in Colombia first and then planning to going to the Carribean coast.

A tale of Two Teas

I got a groupon deal  whilst still in New York for high tea* for two at the Thistle Hotel in Brighton for less than half price, so I bought it. Almost a month later I wanted to book the tea but I had forgotten what site I bought it from, so I checked all my bank statements and found it was Groupon, but not before forgetting my mastercard login details and having to jump through a few hoops to reset those, that was fairly straightforward. I tried to log in to Groupon but none of my emails were accepted, I phoned them up and found I had logged in with Facebook when I made the order, I still couldn't log in, then remembered I had since changed my Facebook login email. I finally logged in a got my voucher and then tried to print the PDF which said it was corrupted, after a combined 3 hours of pissing around and then reading a review saying it was rubbish anyway, I finally had the tea booked and down we went to Brighton.
It was a splendid afternoon tea in fact, even after all the palaver, the Thistle hotel is on the waterfront across from the pier, there was hardly anyone else there and the edibles were very nice.

*High Tea is a cream tea with the addition of sandwiches and small cakes as well served on a three tiered silver tray with a choice of tea or coffee served in a pot enough for several cups.