Welcome to Tea Time 2025. These posts will be about Tea Rooms we’ve been to, Teas we’ve given for friends and family, Church Tea events, and High Tea in restaurants from 2008 to the present. Tea in the U.S.A., Tea in England and Tea in Canada. Many of the Tea Rooms are no longer in business, which is sad.
This post is from April 6th 2011
On Saturday we walked many miles around town and ended up for an afternoon tea in the Oak Bay area of Victoria. It was a wonderful authentic English High Tea that was recommended to us by Pondside who lives on Vancouver Island. She graciously made our reservations for us including instructions not to be seated in the middle of the restaurant. We had a delightful experience at the White Heather Tea Room and would recommend it to you. Later I will post about meeting Pondside on Sunday and what a wonderful day we had together.
It was so delightful to meet Pondside face to face on this trip.
We visited this tea room on a Sister weekend the four of us enjoyed in Victoria B.C. for my 60th birthday. This tea room is still in business!
We stayed at the Beaconsfield for our weekend.
Back to the present: Yesterday was the first day of Summer and we got a nice rain shower and today we are expecting some more rain. Lots of heat forecasted for many areas in the U.S.A. the next few days. Colville is supposed to be 55 F today with rain starting at noon. How are the temps where you are?
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
…who knew that there were so many tea rooms? Not me!
I love all the wonderful pictures you shared! Thank you for sharing!!!
Wow this certainly brought back memories. We really need to have another sisters trip.
It has been a long time since I had an afternoon tea. These photos are delightful!
You sure have visit a lot of tea rooms. What lovely photos.
Thanks for sharing moments of high tea bliss!
That’s a wonderful tea room that I’ve visited several times. Glad you enjoyed it back in the day!