Tearooms and Tearoom Tours with
Scottish Dream Tours
When I was growing up we had afternoon tea everyday upon our
arrival home from school. As was the tradition, this light repast
carried us over until a later supper when my father arrived home
from work. My mother faced no challenge in getting us home
directly from school as we could not wait to see what aromas
would permeate the house upon opening the front door. Chelsea
Buns, Lemon Curd Tarts, Strawberry Jam Tarts, Shortbread,
Victoria Sponge Cake, Sticky Toffee Pudding, Oven warm Scones
with Jam and Cream! We each had our favorites but if my mother
and sister were baking it was all going to be wonderfully delicious!
Having owned a Wee Scottish Tearoom for several years brought back
all those memories of afternoon tea as a child and my ever increasing
love for Scotland and a more relaxed way of living. When guests to the
tearoom requested that I conduct a tour to my ancestral homeland, I
though "why not" and Scottish Dream Tours was born. I am often
asked why we focus on tearooms. Well, the focus is not on tearooms but
we have to eat somewhere anyway, so why not indulge ourselves in the
timeless tradition of taking tea! Our tours are designed to bring back
yesterday with wonderful traditions and a much slower pace of life.
Touring Scotland became so popular that is wasn't long before we were
adding on Ireland, Wales and England. Although we now offer tours that are
not necessarily listed as tearoom tours, we still find that our tearoom tours
are our most favorite tours. We are offering Scotland Tearoom and Castle
Tours, Wales Tearoom, Castle and Pub Tours, Yorkshire Dales Tearoom
Tours, Cotswolds, Devon and Cornwall Tearoom Tours and we are very
excited to be offering our first Red Hats Tearoom and Castle Affair for
2008. Our tearoom was one of the very first to offer Red Hat Teas and I am
delighted with our first offering for a Red Hats Tearoom Tour.  We look
forward to sharing our love of these warm, wonderful countries and sharing
some of our favorite tearooms with you. You can find your self indulging in a
Cream Tea, Afternoon Tea or a High Tea in many of our tours!
Strange how a teapot can represent at the same
time the comforts of solitude and the pleasures of
company.

If you are cold, tea will warm you.  If you are too
heated, it will cool you.  If you are depressed, it
will cheer you.  If you are excited, it will calm you.  
~Gladstone, 1865

A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly
Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards.  
~A.A. Milne

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a
book long enough to suit me.  ~C.S. Lewis

You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and
though I asked most distinctly for bread and
butter, you have given me cake. I am known for
the gentleness of my disposition, and the
extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn
you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest