High tea at our hotel. I didn't get a good photo of this, grabbed this off the website
The English invented tea time, I think. We had two high teas in the hotel with wonderful scones, clotted cream and strawberry jam, eclairs, and little sandwiches: cucumber and cress, salmon, tomato…..
The Lounge where tea is served
Our hotel, The Grosvenor (formerly the Victorian Thistle) was ideally placed right next to Victoria station. Everything was so beautiful. The hotel perhaps once had been a grand old dame, but was now a bit tattered around the edges. Still we loved it. It is interesting how one can become so attached to a little home away from home. Napping, reading, wonderful respite from all the walking and looking.
Hallway. We had to go up to the fourth floor, then turn right down the hall down a little ramp to what was called the fifth floor (another wing) and take another elevator to the sixth floor.
lobby
view from our window