Saturday 1 November 2014

Tea in the Garioch

This is Chapel of Garioch, a tiny, pretty village near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire. The village is just behind Bennachie ('Bennahie')the biggest hill in the area seen in the picture. You can make Tea and Garioch rhyme because it is pronounced 'Geery' for some reason.

Just by the very interesting church and historic graveyard is the tearoom, housed in an old Post Office. It is the yellow building on the right. Just visible is a telephone box under a cloak of ivy. I went there with the ladies from my work for their monthly Vintage Afternoon Tea. Not only is the tearoom like something from Miss Marple, but the staff wear vintage dresses and aprons and the tea is very traditional. Egg, salmon and cucumber and cheese and local pickle finger sandwiches, scones with jam and cream, lemon tarts, victoria sponge, meringues and macarons. Delightful. It really is like stepping back in time or into some kind of BBC drama!

2 comments:

Leen said...

Especially nice for Retrogirl. Did she dress the part too?

Maria said...

Sounds yum!
You've confirmed what I've always suspected: every place name in Scotland I ever read is unlikely to be said the way it sounds in my head.