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Just a quick question regarding the Albergue along the CF.
Being English I do like my cup of tea first thing in the morning, I'm happy to bring tea bags and cup, but can you please tell me if there will be kettle facilities in the Albergue.
Thanks
So the truth is out...you're not Al the optimist, you're Al the (English) imposter!My Spanish friends think I cannot be English because I don't drink tea, don't carry an umbrella, drink cider not beer or lager, have never been to Benidorm and actually know another language!
My Spanish friends think I cannot be English because I don't drink tea, don't carry an umbrella, drink cider not beer or lager, have never been to Benidorm and actually know another language!
Waka,
There is NO NORM in the albergues! Some have kitchens; others do not. Some kitchens have kettles; others do not. However some of us wise old veterans do get around the 'cuppa' problem by carrying an electric coil. Frankly it is the only luxury that I do carry. What bliss it is to sip an early morning tea while waiting for dawn to start walking.
Happy teatime and Buen camino!
MM
Along the way the tea possibilities are patchy.
But the tea at the Tertulia in Santago is FANTASTIC. Go early to the forum meet-up and enjoy some real tea!
Ha ha....every time I read a post on here about umbrellas I have a mental picture of a dude walking the Camino wearing a dark suit, bowler hat and sporting an umbrella.My Spanish friends think I cannot be English because I don't drink tea, don't carry an umbrella, drink cider not beer or lager, have never been to Benidorm and actually know another language!
Would that be accompanied by Richtea bickies Rich1?
It was my one luxury. Nine oz of coil, tea, and Starbucks Via coffee. It was all neatly contained in a gallon ziplock and could have been jettisoned at any time--but it wasn't.Top question and one that has been vexing me also
May have to be some teabags with me - can I afford the extra weight
Waka,
Any resemblance between Lipton's and tea is less than coincidental.
Ghastly stuff.
I've tried, in both USA and Chile, doubling up on quantities of Lipton's, stewing it and it's still complete gn@t's p!ss.
Take some Yorkshire tea with you and have fun trying to find "real" milk.
You'd be much better off being a typical "Rosbif" of yore and having ale to break your fast!
What part of Wessex are you from?
N.W. Hants - very close to the Wiltshire border and not so far from the Berks border as well.
South Dorset by the sea.
One of our veterans brings an electric coil that fits in your cup and heats the water...that might be an idea just incase?Just a quick question regarding the Albergue along the CF.
Being English I do like my cup of tea first thing in the morning, I'm happy to bring tea bags and cup, but can you please tell me if there will be kettle facilities in the Albergue.
Thanks
Born in South Staffordshire bordering on the Black Country multi-lingual - English as she should be spake, YamYam and Brummie. Can even understand some of what my Geordie pal says! As for the rest I blame my education for my poor attempts at all except my Spanish, for which I thank many Tapas Bars and girlfriends.Waka,
Al,
Another language?
After a bottle of wine I'm multilingual in one language.
What's your excuse?
Drink cider, know another language........Are you from Devon?
My 2nd year in Devon(2000) the Western Morning News had a little count up on the front page every day of how many days it had rained in a row, it started in the 80's and it had gone 100+ before a day off came just before Xmas.Al can't be from Devon because he doesn't carry an umbrella, where it's 'occasionally' known to rain...and rain and rain and rain and rain!
That's brilliant news - count me in on tea-carrying...just weighed out 50 tea bags and it comes to 110g, well worth the extra weight.
The camino does strange things to your preferences!
Before I walked, I thought that I was incapable of doing anything without my first brew of the morning. I also thought that coffee made with 50% heated milk was vile and never took sugar.
So first morning off, I had a bottle of cold water and a banana to eat. Walked happily for nearly 2 hours before I stopped at a cafe for a cafe con leche and something to eat. Later around lunchtime when tea is again usually essential, I found that a cool beer made a very acceptable alternative. And again at 4. I think I only had 2 cuppas the entire month I was on the camino, and never had withdrawal symptoms. Strange how the camino provides!
But then this was during Sept when the weather was delightful.
Waka, make sure you stay in Rabanal. There you get a real cup of tea in the afternoon. Really civilised!
There was me thinking that starting a thread about tea wouldn't get much of a response. It's really nice to know that there are so many non English tea lovers out there.
I'll be taking my own, just weighed out 50 tea bags and it comes to 110g, well worth the extra weight.
Hope you mean "real" as in fresh and not mucked about with? With all those cows...Take some Yorkshire tea with you and have fun trying to find "real" milk
Hope you mean "real" as in fresh and not mucked about with? With all those cows...
Never thought of the electric coil as a back up, might have to look into that.
I'm ok for coffee during the rest of the day, but it's that early morning tea that wakes me up.
On a technical note Laurie. One assumes that a US electric coil take longer to heat a cuppa when on EU current. Or do you have an EU one?
As far as I'm concerned, a cup of tea without milk in it is not worth drinking. So to those of you who took teabags etc, what did you do about milk? Did you buy a whole carton and leave it behind each day, take dried milk or milk sticks, or drink it black? Or where you lucky enough to find milk in an albergue kitchen, as I once did?
Peregrina - oh please no no NO NO! NOT condensed milk......... Give me cafe con leche any day rather than THAT!!!!
On holiday, we take UHT milk sticks with us, which make a fairly poor cuppa, which is OK first thing in the morning but I'm not so desperate that I am prepared to take a couple of dozen sticks with me when walking.
Am I a tea snob for only liking fresh milk in my tea???
As far as I'm concerned, a cup of tea without milk in it is not worth drinking. So to those of you who took teabags etc, what did you do about milk? Did you buy a whole carton and leave it behind each day, take dried milk or milk sticks, or drink it black? Or where you lucky enough to find milk in an albergue kitchen, as I once did?
That's funny! Having been born and raised in the tropics, where fresh milk is difficult to come by, condensed milk is very close to my heart, and coffee sweetened with condensed milk is way up there among my favourite things. In fact, I try constantly not to buy condensed milk, whether in a tube or can, as I like it so much I can't resist consuming it straight........oh please no no NO NO! NOT condensed milk.........
Icacos, just in case you don't know the Spanish for coffee with condensed milk is "Cafe Bonbom".
That's funny! Having been born and raised in the tropics, where fresh milk is difficult to come by, condensed milk is very close to my heart, and coffee sweetened with condensed milk is way up there among my favourite things. In fact, I try constantly not to buy condensed milk, whether in a tube or can, as I like it so much I can't resist consuming it straight.
I can quite understand @Felice that your taste for canned milk is coloured by your memories of those vile offices in which you had to work. My memories, on the other hand, of drinking coffee with condensed milk is of sitting of a morning enjoying the north east trades and listening to birdsong. ......... Sorry! ..... yes, I'm Canadian now, so I will say ....sorry!Hmm, maybe that's why I am so averse to tea with condensed milk. I spent many years working in the Middle East, when I already had a serious tea addiction, and I hated the tea I was served there - very strong, made with evaporated milk (Bonny Maid or Rainbow) and undrinkable without sugar. Brings back too many memories of working in vile back offices, trying to make sense of things.
Hello Al, every time I asked for tea "con leche" I was given hot milk with froth, which is not great in a cup of tea. I carried 6 little containers of UHT milk with me and teabags. While we were in Europe we bought an electric kettle as hotels don't do the tea making thing and I seriously wondered about trying to fit it in my pack to take to Spain, but sense prevailed and we sent it to friends in France before we began the Camino. I did bring it back to Australia with me though!!So grateful that I like my cafe con leche and cortado
... If you buy tea in the cafes then you need to impress cold milk ( which they usually understand if you know the word, I don't remember but ask a Spanish speaker ). ...
That's it! Thank-you SYatesLeche fría
SY
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Am I a tea snob for only liking fresh milk in my tea???
Thank you, I happen to have a glass tea pot never used it but now I have an excuse. I will go round up the teas you recommended. I also have access to fresh milk strait from the cow. Or are you referring to pasteurized store bought stuff? In any case I will experiment with just cream, whole & half/half. Milk is a very interesting taste depending on the type of grass fed to the cows. Any suggestion on what you get will help. I am excited!What is a good English tea consisting of? I am more than sure there will be more than one answer.
Too true Keith.
Enlgish tea is everything from 'Builders tea' - strong and dark, served in a mug and with at least 2 sugars in it - through to Earl Grey tea, served in a china cup, accompanied by cucumber sandwiches, and lots of variations in between!
Real English tea is made using tea leaves in a warmed tea pot, using boiling water. It's a dying breed as most people now use teabag, and make a cuppa straight in a mug.
Don't attempt to have tea at a coffee shop - you will be served a mug of tepid water with a tea bag on the side. Disgusting.
An average cafe or restaurant will use teabags and provide an average cup of tea.
One of the best cups of tea I have had away from home, was actually in Muscat Oman, where a cafe was using teapigs. These expensive teabags have a generous sized bag and quality tea and if properly made, produce a good cup of tea.
Myself, at home everyday, I use a glass teapot and a tea bag cos I'm lazy. Type of tea depends on the time of day. TG Tipps for breakfast (nice and strong), Kenyan for lunch and Earl grey after supper.
And fresh milk of course.....
I guess I should ask how easy is it to get proper milk on the camino?
Thank you, I happen to have a glass tea pot never used it but now I have an excuse. I will go round up the teas you recommended. I also have access to fresh milk strait from the cow. Or are you referring to pasteurized store bought stuff? In any case I will experiment with just cream, whole & half/half. Milk is a very interesting taste depending on the type of grass fed to the cows. Any suggestion on what you get will help. I am excited!
Keith
Assam, brewed strong in a pot with a bit of fresh milk. Delicious! And it wakes you up, and more gently than coffee. Get it loose online, if you can't find it where you are.Real English tea is made using tea leaves in a warmed tea pot, using boiling water. It's a dying breed as most people now use teabag, and make a cuppa straight in a mug.
Yes, with emphasis on habit! Once hooked.......But be warned. Tea drinking is an acquired habit.
I actually had a great discution with a dairy farmer in Galicia about their farming methods turns out they produce some of the best milk in the country, I really liked there milk in the farm areas it was fresh. But finding small quantities will be the tough part. Those folks are very approachable the tough part is a translator. As some of the dialects are hard even for a lady who lived in Spain. I love the way they put up hay to feed the cows. They explained that was the secret behind the sweet milk. I can see why as most of it is put up by hand then trimmed into long hay stacks creating a silage type feed.Looks like black tea then.
Or tea with lemon! SY *ducks, runs and hides*
Hi, Felice,
Well, though I'm a coffee drinker, I have a similar opinion about a cup of tea without milk. But what I have found to be most available is not exactly my ideal -- I buy condensed milk in a tube, which means that my coffee is also sweetened. I have learned that I prefer sweet and with milk over no milk. Last year I tried to find some powdered milk to bring with me, but could only find it in huge quantities, so I went back to my "leche condensada en un tubo." Very widely available.
Hi, Felice,
Well, though I'm a coffee drinker, I have a similar opinion about a cup of tea without milk. But what I have found to be most available is not exactly my ideal -- I buy condensed milk in a tube, which means that my coffee is also sweetened. I have learned that I prefer sweet and with milk over no milk. Last year I tried to find some powdered milk to bring with me, but could only find it in huge quantities, so I went back to my "leche condensada en un tubo." Very widely available.
You can make your own " milk sticks". Take a large diameter straw and seal one end with heated pliers or even a hot hair straightener, fill the straw with powdered milk, creamer, what ever you want and seal the other end. Buen caffeinated Camino.
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