Sensual tea experience

My latest favourite place is called Malt. It is at the Beaumaris Concord, a little shopping village. This café is right on the corner and it has a warm atmosphere, not like many of the modern cafes, cold and unfriendly. The café has great staff, friendly and helpful, the owner is always on board and likes chatting with his customers. I think he might be Greek? He just walked up to me and now I know, he is Italian! The interior colours are brown and maroon, the furniture is mixed, the place has many different seating arrangement. One day I work on my laptop at the table, the next I sit in the armchair to read the paper. What I really like is the few little unique things they have. My very favourite is the rougelagh, which is a snail like folded pastry with lots of nuts. The other day I wanted a pot of tea as I am cutting out coffee, only have coffee and cake once a week max and one of the girls recommended to try the white Ambrosia tea by TeaForte.com. I must say, this cup of tea was a visual, aromatic and taste experience, engaged many of my senses! It came in a cute, beautifully design paper cone on a ceramic square plate designed for the tea with the F for Forte design and the cone had a little green leaf hanging out so when you open the paper cone to hand the tea in the hot water, you have something to grab. The tea bag is beautifully designed and the leaf stands out from the pot when you close the lid. How very cute! The moment you put the tea in the hot water, the aroma of the tea lingers around. The real enjoyment culminates in the taste of the ambrosia tea. It comes to my tongue in different stages. It has honey like richness and flower like lightness. It is the most delicious, sensual experience I had with tea! Today, I came back to do some work on my laptop so I ordered the white ambrosia tea with a small piece of almond biscuit. The tea was again as beautiful experience as tea can go and the almond biscuit was perfection in every way. Again, the owner had a few kind words to me and made me taste a Ginger shot Rochester Ginger that was extremely envigorating and it is healthy as well! Now I have a few things that are worth coming for and are unique! I love places like Malt!

I am in love with my guitar. It's mutual.

I got so inspired during the classes at my new music course I am doing at MWT Institute on Songwriting, Composition and Production that went and bought a guitar. I decided to learn to play it! I got a great deal at the 21st birthday at my local music shop, Pat's Music. The guy was very helpful and looked after me and put together everything I needed. Finding a good book was more of a problem. Some of them such rubbish music or too much music info I did not need. I only needed info on how to play the guitar and some nice music! After long searching I found one I was happy with so that night I got started! My first hour was not pleasant, I found the guitar strange to play, and I was not making a nice, resonant sound. Compared to the piano, I struggled with the asymmetric aspect of the instrument. I realized, what a huge advantage is the fact that I already play two other instruments and read music. My good ear also guided me on the strings and getting things right. I was progressing really well within two hours. My challenge was that sometimes my left hand was on a different string from my right. Two many strings! The last pieces included chords. Now that was a real challenge! To make all the notes sound and resonate properly! Diligently I am practicing every day and I am loving it. I am revising my pieces and the quality of my sound is much better. I ma really happy with my playing and my progress. Although getting started with my studies and buying a guitar happened almost accidently and suddenly, I have a feeling that I will get out many years of pleasure from it.