The first Sensodyne High tea of the season!
The sensodyne high tea season starts of with a lot of emailing.
Where can you get the sensodyne action packs?
Are there any left?
And most important, where can we have our high tea's?
To our pleasant surprise, sensodyne has opted for the option of weekend high tea's this year.
Of course, this had to be put to the test.
Marielle and I were the ones up for this challenge!
It was a Saturday morning.
It was very early this Saturday morning.
It was a very early traffic filled Saturday morning.
Not that I can complain. I breezed through it all, and made it to maastricht in record braking time. Marielle on the other hand met every type of traffic jam you can think of.
Arriving at the hotel was sheer bliss. The room was ready and it was almost time to shop till you drop.
After dumping the luggage (yes, even for one night it is called luggage!) we head of to the city centre to hit the shops.
A good 5 hours with no drinks later, the shops close and we're forced to stop shopping and head out on a search for munchies.
We head towards a small cafe, called...hmm...
Marielle help me out here!!? Sams? ah..no...Edd's I think it was.
We dump our bags..(I dump my one very tiny bag.. and Marielle dumps er 440 different big bags) and we order a glass of wine and lots and lots of tapas!
A few wines and muchos tapas later I head to the loo, to find the most amazing looking washbasins I have ever seen in a loo.
I know, you must think it pretty pathetic to take a photo of the lady's loo's, but I can tell you, it is a lot more pathetic when someone walks in while your making the photo!! :)
The next morning after breakfast (and what a breakfast....fresh fruit, bacon, eggs, sausages, rolls, poffertjes, vlaai) we decide to go for a wee walk to build up our appetite again for the high tea.
Marielle takes of in a power walk while I try to schlep my breakfast filled body on behind her.
We head past the Bonnefanten museum,
down the maastricht boulevard,
where A maastricht psycho was yelling at us to F... Off, ( no, I didn't take a photo of the poor psycho boy) passed the library,
and back to the hotel for our much needed high tea.
Lovely tea! Only one cup though!! I ask you, how can you have a high tea, with only one cup of tea??!!
The sandwiches where "special" (are you getting my drift here?) but not even nearly enough, there was NO scone and there for NO clotted cream, but about half of the sweet treats on top were lovely, so that made up for it, just a wee bit.
Shopping in Maastricht is fantastic, The hotel was lovely, the breakfast at the hotel was amazing, but clearly they do not have a lot of experience with high tea's.
I had a great time all together though.
Where can you get the sensodyne action packs?
Are there any left?
And most important, where can we have our high tea's?
To our pleasant surprise, sensodyne has opted for the option of weekend high tea's this year.
Of course, this had to be put to the test.
Marielle and I were the ones up for this challenge!
It was a Saturday morning.
It was very early this Saturday morning.
It was a very early traffic filled Saturday morning.
Not that I can complain. I breezed through it all, and made it to maastricht in record braking time. Marielle on the other hand met every type of traffic jam you can think of.
Arriving at the hotel was sheer bliss. The room was ready and it was almost time to shop till you drop.
After dumping the luggage (yes, even for one night it is called luggage!) we head of to the city centre to hit the shops.
A good 5 hours with no drinks later, the shops close and we're forced to stop shopping and head out on a search for munchies.
We head towards a small cafe, called...hmm...
Marielle help me out here!!? Sams? ah..no...Edd's I think it was.
We dump our bags..(I dump my one very tiny bag.. and Marielle dumps er 440 different big bags) and we order a glass of wine and lots and lots of tapas!
A few wines and muchos tapas later I head to the loo, to find the most amazing looking washbasins I have ever seen in a loo.
I know, you must think it pretty pathetic to take a photo of the lady's loo's, but I can tell you, it is a lot more pathetic when someone walks in while your making the photo!! :)
The next morning after breakfast (and what a breakfast....fresh fruit, bacon, eggs, sausages, rolls, poffertjes, vlaai) we decide to go for a wee walk to build up our appetite again for the high tea.
Marielle takes of in a power walk while I try to schlep my breakfast filled body on behind her.
We head past the Bonnefanten museum,
down the maastricht boulevard,
where A maastricht psycho was yelling at us to F... Off, ( no, I didn't take a photo of the poor psycho boy) passed the library,
and back to the hotel for our much needed high tea.
Lovely tea! Only one cup though!! I ask you, how can you have a high tea, with only one cup of tea??!!
The sandwiches where "special" (are you getting my drift here?) but not even nearly enough, there was NO scone and there for NO clotted cream, but about half of the sweet treats on top were lovely, so that made up for it, just a wee bit.
Shopping in Maastricht is fantastic, The hotel was lovely, the breakfast at the hotel was amazing, but clearly they do not have a lot of experience with high tea's.
I had a great time all together though.
posted by Lazytracy @ 3:24 pm
6 Comments:
At 11:15 pm,
Anonymous said…
yep, had a great time too!!
Think the cafe was indeed called Ed's.... will get back to you about it.
Tracy, dear, you left out the very important part about getting the much wanted Sensodyne Action Coupons (oh yesss, I want revenge for the 440 bags story... ;))
Anybody wanna know about this story?
BTW, I was pleasantly surprised not to find the contents of our bags on the net. So that nobody will know about the hours you spent in De Slegte and the shoe-shops.
I took an afternoon off work friday and decided to do some errands in the city-center of Utrecht. Anyway, I came home with my bakcpack and four other bags and only one errand done, but I did have 2 pair of shoes, yessss, 2 jackets aka colbertjes, 2 trousers, 1 CD, 4 packages of tea to bring along on my trip to England next weekend (don't get me started on that one...), 4 big boxes of 'biologische opvolgmelk no. 3' which also must be brought on my trip to London and a copy of my letter of resignation to the uitzendbureau.
The latter meaning that from 1 december on I will be a real 'ambtenaar' working for the provincie Utrecht... :-P
At 11:41 am,
Lazytracy said…
Ah yes of course... the story of the sensodyne action coupons..hmm.. I don't really think we need tell everyone about that! :)
and shh..shh..shh..stop telling about people about the hours spent in the shoe shops..I'm sure this will influence them and stop them from spending more hours with me trolling for shoes. :)
A big congrats on your official status as AMBTENAAR.
You do understand this means I can have a go at you, every time you have an ambtenaars day off, don't you?! :)
So, you've got all your goodies to take to england? You sound pretty well prepared. But I'm not sure you really needed to new pairs of shoes,(and you certainly didn't need to tell me about it, seeing as I have NONE!)2 jackets and 2 trouwers..hmm...I think that is just to much of a good thing.
Trust me.. this is not jealousy speaking here, but it's just not on!! :)
At 11:43 am,
Lazytracy said…
Hmm.. I think next time I should check my spelling before publishing my comments.. :)
At 10:30 pm,
Anonymous said…
Women!
At 8:46 am,
Nancy said…
I never mind some shoe shopping, ladies ;)
but when is the next high tea date?!
Funny coincidence, Mariëlle: I start as a real bank employee on Dec. 1st! Totally forgot about the letter of resignation, so thanks for the reminder!
Does anyone know untill when we can use the coupons? I still have 2 left!
At 11:06 am,
Lazytracy said…
coupons are good till somewhere in february!! Woohooooooo!!
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