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Teatime Inspiration: Your Daydreamy Weekend Global Travels

Are you dreaming of a holiday in New York, Paris or London? Perhaps your dream trip is to Singapore, or a visit to India to see the Taj Mahal? Although most of us can’t do this in reality, feel free to daydream to your heart’s delight….while savoring Vahdam Weekend Tea Selections loose leaf teas inspired by your favorite bucket list destinations. Visit or revisit as often as your imagination and relaxation can take you. Create your Around-the-World adventure itinerary including amazing, iconic destinations all around the globe, make teatime treats from curated recipes for your destinations, or buy some tasty teatime treats to take with you….choose inspiring books or puzzles to enhance your travel experience. While a passport and luggage are must haves for a trip to the world’s greatest cities, your dreamy weekend trip will include relaxing books with gorgeous pictures of the places and things you will see on your virtual weekend travels, including recipes and treats from your fave dreamy locales to make your daydream visit all the more pleasurable. Your entire trip will be taken in a cozy and relaxing tea corner of your own home, featuring your dreamy destination Vahdam Weekend Tea Selections. So steep a cup of your Weekend tea, and take some time for yourself to savor and relax on your aspirational wish-list trip!

VIRTUAL ITINERARY:

FIRST STOP: Dreamy Weekend in New York

Let’s head to The Big Apple NYC with your City Skyline mug, filled with fragrant Blooming Rose Black Tea. Savor a delicious New York Style Cheesecake Bar made right in your own kitchen. Sightseeing has never been so relaxing as sitting back with your NYC-inspired tea and savoring a New York Cheesecake Bite! As spring comes to The City blossoms are everywhere, filling your senses with pleasure. Browse through Walk with Me in New York, a lovely book filled with pictures of the places you visit and the things you see, bringing the City to life for you as you stroll through neighborhoods and explore beautiful streets from Soho to Greenwhich Village, virtually. Or enjoy New York in Bloom, enjoying lush photos of parks, gardens and flower markets with beautifully described locations. You are filled with the exilarating feeling of springtime in New York City. Find the floral heart of the City from your comfort of your own home.

SECOND STOP: Dreamy Weekend in London

Let’s head to Merry Old London town with your Royal Albert Rose Confetti teacup with fragrant black tea. Feast on a traditional and refreshing English Cucumber Sandwich…..creamy, delicious and easy to make at home. Your seat is ready on the virtual red double-decker bus, as you are transported through iconic and historic London. Relax and sit back with your London-inspired Classic English Breakfast Black Tea, exclusive to Vahdam India Teas, and savor a cooling cucumber sandwich. As spring comes to London, blue skies and blossoms are everywhere, filling your senses with pleasure. A leisurely leaf through the pages of London’s Afternoon Teas, shows you 60 locations to take tea, featuring their tea traditions, and includes a map to locations in and around London. These places are what make London THE place for creating High Tea memories. Enjoy London in Bloom, featuring beautiful photographs, recipes and a virtual tour of London’s blossoms and blooms. See the famous sites of London with an ethereal overview of gorgeous flowers that celebrate London’s historic heritage, right from your at-home cozy tea corner.

THIRD STOP: Dreamy Weekend in Paris Travel to the City of Light with a relaxing virtual visit and enjoy the famous landmarks of romantic Paris! With your Yrebyou Paris Street Eiffel Tower ceramic teacup brimming with Hibiscus Rose herbal tea, you are ready rain or shine for a dreamy walk through the streets of Paris as time stands still for you and your Sweetheart taking in the magic of Pierre Hermé pastries. Be sure to wear a warm wool beret, and enjoy tasting Paris Souvenier Gourmet Macarons to your heart’s delight. Weekend in Paris Strolling by the Seine, you stop at a lovely café, enjoying a Hibiscus Rose Herbal Tea exclusive to Vahdam India Teas. As rain turns to sunshine, the exquisite beauty of Paris envelops you and takes you to your dreamiest destination yet. Dip colorful macarons into your tea and relish every bite. Take time to put together an incredible Eiffel tower 3D puzzle to challenge yourself and create a piece of Paris right in your cozy tea corner. Or take in the love, light and flowers of this incredible city, with reknowned sites mixed with gorgeous blooms and blossoms in Paris in Bloom by Georgianna Lane. With it’s lush proes and beautiful photographs featuring parks and gardens, shrubs and floral boutiques, this hardcopy book takes you to the places you are wishing to see while you relax at home with your cup of tea. Be swept away to the City of Love……and Lovers.

FOURTH STOP: Dreamy Weekend in Singapore Turning toward the East, we set our daydreamy sights on Singapore, the Lion City. Iconic, historic and modern, this city is a global financial center. Singapore is a sunny, tropical island perfectly embodied in Vahdam Teas’ fragrant Sweet Himalayan Green Tea served in a Hidden Animal ceramic teacup (with a lion inside as an unexpected surprise) representing this surprising, quintessential city. A perfect pairing with your Vadham Singapore tea is a Hawker popiah (Malaysian fresh spring rolls ), a popular street food of Singapore. On our weekend trip around the world, the iconic island city-state of Singapore is a must-visit destination. Singapore is a diamond-shaped island with over sixty small islets of the Malay Peninsula. What an exotic and iconic site to see are the beautiful Botanical Gardens, which include the National Orchid Garden. Browse at your own pace through the small and lovely book of water-colors and pencil-drawn illustrations which is Botanical Singapore: An Illustrated Guide to Popular Plants and Flowers, and see flowers you might never have seen before. Or spend time relaxing over your cup of tea and Hawker snacks putting together an amazing jigsaw puzzle featuring the modern, high-rise side of Singapore in a dusky cityscape. You will want to visit again and again to see even more of this amazing city island, sipping tea from your home base.

FIFTH STOP: Dreamy Weekend at the Taj Mahal Our long at-home flight to Agra, India will be a journey of eternal love and devotion. The Taj Mahal, one of the seven wonders of the world, is one of the most famous and frequently visited locations on the planet. Sit back and relax with your cup of Vahdam India Tea selection, India’s Original Masala Chai. An aromatic and a sensory pleasure try sipping it from a “Chai Love You” whimsical tea cup. Enjoy sweets of Laddoos for Life Flax Seed Dried Fruits Laddoos (round dessert balls eaten at festivals and celebrations) and celebrate your dreamy trip to the Taj Mahal from your own home. Sojourn to a palace built by love to honor the memory of the Empress of the Mughal people in the 1600s. The Taj Mahal Palace offers both garden and inside tours for its countless visitors, and we can take our tour through a beautifully written book, while sipping spicy chai. A rich combination of history, travel and exquisite story-telling, Empress of the Taj: A Search for Mumtaz Mahal, invites you into the love story of Shah Jahan, who built the palace for his eternal love, Mumtaz. This enchanting paperback historical story of the building of the Taj Mahal will keep you engaged from page to page. Or spend your Taj Mahal time meticulously building a spectacular 3D puzzle of the Taj Majal complete with LED light to project their love and light all over your room. Relax, with focus, determination and caring, as Shah Jahan did, and create this one-of-a-kind palace decoration, inspired by the palace known throughout the world for centuries.

As we make our return trip home to our cozy tea corner after a daydreamy vacation, it has been a calming, energizing and unique experience. Plan to dream a little dream of travel to these special places in our beautiful world whenever you have the opportunity. We hope you have loved every minute of your self-care experience. Remember, all you need is a cozy corner at home and some time to take for yourself. It all starts with a sip of Vahdam India Tea Weekend Tea Selections. Bon voyage!