I've read your article. I'm glad you appreciate your Dad's work in the tea plantations of south Yunnan, and I'm glad I had the privilege of staying there at your grandmother's place outside Teng Chong for a couple of months when you were going on ten or eleven. I also had an evening of tea drinking with your Dad over a stove down Valencia Avenue way, and it's a rewarding custom.
In the 1960s, a year before your Mom was born, I took a trip with the Indo-Swedish Society which had chartered a trip to New Delhi. I visited several points in the country, the Taj Mahal being the highlight of the trip, and from Calcutta flew up to Darjeelingh, where some of India's chief tea plantations are situated. It was exciting to see the women pick the leaves from the bushes, and the whole area somehow smelt of tea. Here at home I have a selection of Rooboid tea from Africa, as well as a packet of Moroccan tea I bought four years ago when our Spanish teachers' association had a congress in Marakesch. I wish you good luck with your Zen & Tea adventure. Love from Grandpa.
Hi Anoah,
I've read your article. I'm glad you appreciate your Dad's work in the tea plantations of south Yunnan, and I'm glad I had the privilege of staying there at your grandmother's place outside Teng Chong for a couple of months when you were going on ten or eleven. I also had an evening of tea drinking with your Dad over a stove down Valencia Avenue way, and it's a rewarding custom.
In the 1960s, a year before your Mom was born, I took a trip with the Indo-Swedish Society which had chartered a trip to New Delhi. I visited several points in the country, the Taj Mahal being the highlight of the trip, and from Calcutta flew up to Darjeelingh, where some of India's chief tea plantations are situated. It was exciting to see the women pick the leaves from the bushes, and the whole area somehow smelt of tea. Here at home I have a selection of Rooboid tea from Africa, as well as a packet of Moroccan tea I bought four years ago when our Spanish teachers' association had a congress in Marakesch. I wish you good luck with your Zen & Tea adventure. Love from Grandpa.