This Friday was a free day for our group, no class and no work for everyone. So, we decided to finally to have afternoon tea while in London. We booked afternoon tea and champaign at the Hempel Hotel. This was such a beautiful location. We ended up booking an early tea, so we were actually the only ones in the garden for the first part of our tea. The garden at the hotel where we had tea is where one of the final scenes in Notting Hill was filmed. Click here to a link to a YouTube video to refresh your memory.
Our table looking into the garden.
They needed to hold a credit card at the bar to make sure we paid...so I put mine on file. It got it's own individual safe and I got to hold the key while we were at tea. I thought that was pretty cool.
The spread (and Alex in the background).
My first cup of tea in London and one of the sandwiches.
We could tell that the garden was being set up for an event. Our waiter said that there was going to be a party for 250 people there later that evening. As we were eating, we saw large, wrapped items being unloaded into the area. We figured out (before they were opened) that they were replica elephants from the Elephant Parade (go to this post for a reminder). These were smaller than the ones I saw in the actual parade...but they were still cool to see again, especially as they were being unpacked while we were there. Here are some of the pictures of the replicas after they were set up:
Did you like your tea?
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