Brownies, Tea, Palaces and …er… Doors
Posted: June 29, 2012 Filed under: Warsaw | Tags: art, Baked Goods, bridge, Brownie, Chocolate Brownie, Cookies and Bars, Cooking, drink, festival, Food, gazetta, green tea, Home, jewish district, krolikarnia, lovely, museum, palace, photography, Poland, restaurants, science and culture, Shopping, sunset, tea, travel, traveling, vacation, Warsaw 3 Comments
What isn’t here is a picture of the absolutely amazing Chocolate Brownie that I had from the little festival type thing that was happening at Krolikarnia on this day. It was one of the best Brownies I’ve ever had! Rich, chewy, thick, tasty. Every brilliant word you could think of. Why no photo? Well, because I ate it all of course! The last thing on my mind was taking a photo! After that we went for a walk and ended up in cafe Relaks, a cafe I’d been looking for for quite a while and have now, finally, found! A nice cup of tea was had there, and the first tea photo I’ve given you all for a while. More walking later into the evening. Ending up in the city centre, around the old Jewish district again, then onto a bridge to witness a stunning sunset, which will be specially featured in my next post!
Day 5, Denmark, January 14th 2012
Posted: January 14, 2012 Filed under: Copenhagen | Tags: Baked Goods, Beverages, botanic gardens, cabaret, chocolate, Christiania, cinema, Copenhagen, Croissant, Food, helicopter, KBH, Lake, laura's bakery, Pain au chocolat, peblinge sø, søerne, Shopping, swan, tea, the lakes, torvehallerne Leave a comment
Tea 5: Sencha Currant, Laura’s Bakery, Torvehallerne KBH.
Today started fairly late, it is a Saturday after all. I headed for the ‘The Lakes‘, three, shallow man-made lakes to the West / North West of the City Centre. The sun was shining and the sky was clear, but probably the coldest day so far, should have put the old Long-Johns on, but carried on nevertheless. I wandered along the western edge of the two northernmost ‘lakes’, amongst joggers and dog walkers, sat on a bench for a while and made a few notes, watched Helicopters hovering in the sky whilst swans cruised along the waters of the man-made ‘Peblinge Sø’ and thought about the strange irony that represented. I carried on sauntering up the lakes and then back around and down past the Botanic gardens, on the quest back to find the promising looking glass encased food market I had passed on my way to the lakes. Inside I found myself reheated, and my eyes filled with wondrous treats, cakes, fresh fish, teas, chocolates. The smells and sights set my stomach rumbling in an instant. I wandered through one glass building and then the next and ‘selected’, I use this word loosely as the money in my pocket did most of the deciding for me, Laura’s bakery, the breads and cakes gleaming from behind their glass case. Of course I had to free one, and a tea, obviously.
The tea was warm, slightly fruity and reviving. Sencha Currant, delicate and golden (though my fault for leaving the tea bag in a little too long), with just enough fruity sweetness. The chocolate croissant was, probably the best croissant I’ve eaten, possibly ever, definitely for a long long long time went down much faster than it should have, but it was just perfect, in the cold air, the sun shining down, wonderful.
Tonight I plan to visit Christiania again, Inga has invited me to see some Cabaret type performances in an old cinema there, so hopefully that will work out and be good.
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