
The Afternoon tea was held at the five star boutique hotel, The Milestone Hotel in Kensington. We were sat in a function room as there were 25 of us, but the normal sitting rooms for afternoon tea were so charming and comfortable looking. A man playing the piano was even tucked into a hallway to give ambience but stay out of the way. I checked in on him later on my explorations of the hotel.
We started off with glasses of champagne, which since I was a little hungover (standard London weekend then) helped to clear my fuzzy head. A little hair of the dog right? Needless to say as I had slept through skipped breakfast, the three tiered tower of goodies was a welcome sight.
As this was a blogger event, the obligatory photos were taken before food was touched. Normally I’m on the ball with taking photos, but I just wasn’t into it. I felt like I couldn’t even see if my camera was focused (it normally wasn’t, I’ll spare you those pictures). I was much more interesting in eating what was on the plates.






The only thing I was really disappointed with was that we only had two options of tea to choose from, Early Grey or English breakfast. The part I was most excited about was getting to choose and try different teas. I understand that it was easier to offer two choices, as the staff were regularly coming around refilling the tea cups, but I’d have preferred my own pot of tea that I had gotten to choose.
Even though the food was nice, the company was even better. I got to meet (and even sit between, I’m such a stalker) two bloggers I was really looking forward to meeting, fellow American Tina from Girl Meets Globe, and Jenna from 25 before I’m 25. I also met some new bloggers which was the great part of attending. I don’t think we stopped chatting the entire day in between bites of food. A couple of other bloggers I’ve followed for a while that I also got to meet were Kelly from Around the world in 80 pairs shoes, and the lovely Selena from Oh, the places we will go who organised the whole event. She was a great host from start to finish, and I’m so glad she started organising these afternoon teas as a way of bringing bloggers together.




After our pricey hotel cocktails, we took ourselves to cheaper pubs to carry on conversations. We dwindled until only Emma and I were left to get the tube home. It was such a great day, and exactly what I needed. It’s hard working from home sometimes as you don’t get to meet new people very often, but I met a whole room full of the loveliest women who all shared the same interests in traveling and this weird blogging thing of documenting our lives. It was so interesting hearing everyones stories on how they ended up in the UK, and where their favourite travel destinations were. I can’t wait until the next one! Thanks again Selena, you’re a star!