{"id":1520,"date":"2009-09-30T15:24:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T21:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=1520"},"modified":"2009-09-30T15:24:32","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T21:24:32","slug":"tea-time-and-at-home-in-our-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/?p=1520","title":{"rendered":"Tea Time and at home in our hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1521\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/full_lonvic_thegrosvenor_lounge2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1521\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1521\" title=\"full_lonvic_thegrosvenor_lounge2\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/full_lonvic_thegrosvenor_lounge2-625x235.jpg\" alt=\"HIhg tea at our hotel. I didn't get a good photo of this, grabbed this off the website\" width=\"625\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/full_lonvic_thegrosvenor_lounge2-625x235.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/full_lonvic_thegrosvenor_lounge2-150x56.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/full_lonvic_thegrosvenor_lounge2-450x169.jpg 450w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/full_lonvic_thegrosvenor_lounge2.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1521\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">High tea at our hotel. I didn&#39;t get a good photo of this, grabbed this off the website<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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&#8230;..<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1526\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2880.JPG\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1526\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1526\" title=\"IMG_2880\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2880-625x468.jpg\" alt=\"The Lounge where tea is served\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2880-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2880-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2880-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1526\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lounge where tea is served<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Our hotel, The Grosvenor (formerly the Victorian Thistle) was ideally placed right next to Victoria station.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1522\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2590.JPG\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1522\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1522\" title=\"IMG_2590\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2590-625x468.jpg\" alt=\"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. \" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2590-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2590-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2590-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">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. <\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1523\" style=\"width: 635px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2886.JPG\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1523\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1523\" title=\"IMG_2886\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2886-625x468.jpg\" alt=\"lobby\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2886-625x468.jpg 625w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2886-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2886-450x337.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">lobby<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1524\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2878.JPG\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1524\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1524\" title=\"IMG_2878\" src=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2878-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"view from our window\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2878-450x600.jpg 450w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2878-112x150.jpg 112w, http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_2878-625x833.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1524\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">view from our window<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;.. Our hotel, The Grosvenor (formerly the Victorian Thistle) was ideally placed right next to Victoria station.\u00a0 Everything was so beautiful. The hotel perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1527,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions\/1527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockaria.net\/bluebirdprairie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}