The days and weeks after coming back from the
World Tea Expo are filled with sorting all the photos, tea samples, and business cards that I received. Wow! What a great time! Apparently, I'm getting to be quite well known in the tea world. The days flew by, meeting up with vendors I knew, and while I was there to support
Tea Journey Magazine, I also wanted to check out other vendors and some courses but I just ran out of time! It didn't help that one Toronto business who I've worked with closely suddenly noticed I was at the WTE and decided to give me lists of businesses they wanted me to check out on their behalf.
It's been
five years since I've been to WTE and while the last time started as a romantic meet up with my husband, this time he stayed home with our boy, which marked the first time I've been separated from my child longer than a day since he was born. Fortunately, I love to meet new people and it certainly kept me busy!
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Bumped into TJ Williamson of World Tea Podcast at the conferences.
We were both on the panel of this year's Tea Bloggers Round Table. |
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Purple Tea was all the rage this year! Here with JusTea's Paul Bain and their Kenyan Team Leader, Boaz and wife, Jamilla. JusTea is doing some awesome stuff by creating sustainable enterprises and helping Kenyan tea farmers.
I've done demos of their teas in retail stores to raise awareness of their brand. |
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| Tea Journey's Dan Bolton and John Lawo at work. |
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| Tea Sommelier and budding tea entrepreneur, Claire Schlumberger |
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A true gentleman, famous author, James Norwood Pratt. He was in Toronto a few years ago for a tea event,
hope he'll be back again soon...maybe for the Toronto Tea Festival? |
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| Checking out the tea menu at the Lucky Dragon Casino & Hotel's Cha Garden |
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Look who I ran into at the Lucky Dragon! More Tea Journey team members:
Nan Cui, Dan B., Patty Murray and Janis Grover |
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| Hit the Strip and this is what happens...boy, folks sure are friendly in Vegas... |
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Tea Bloggers Round Table: World Tea Podcast, The Tea & Hat Lady, me! Oolong Owl, Dharlene Marie Fahl,
Five O'Clock Tea and moderator, Naomi Rosen (Joy's Teaspoon) |
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| Elyse Petersen of Tealet |
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| Phil and Constance of Zhen Tea, based in Ottawa. They're a popular exhibitor at the Toronto Tea Festival. |
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| Susan Bolton, Tea Journey booth Captain |
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| Showing off my Tea Journey article on Canada's First Tea Farm, Westholme Tea Company. |
More to come in Part 2!
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