Some call it red tea, some rooibos. I think I just love it. I did have some about 4-5 years ago but it wasn’t common here in Italy and I couldn’t find it. My parents now live in London (g’bye Ecuador for now, but you truly never know with them) and sometimes they bring unusual teas from there, when visiting the kids in Italy. At times it’s funny “ya know, they sell this kind of tea here too…” (like Green Tea with Echinacea, which I absolutely love too). Then, this rooibos tea is not that common here in Pisa, but now I have some Rooibos w/ Vanilla and Strawberry (good), just Rooibos (very good) and Rooibos w/ Orange and Lemon (excellent!).
Funny also because this all red tea thing started when I was reading one of Alexander McCall Smith’s books of the No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series… They take place in Botswana and although I have been there many many many years ago, I can still see the places as I read the books. One of the carachters drinks red tea, so I found the coincidence pretty amusing.
I’m now finishing another totally different book, which will probably take me to write another post pretty soon. It is a book about history, love, sadness, tradition, violence, madness, disillusionment. A whole lot of emotions that certainly don’t leave the reader numb.
To find focus again, sometimes one needs a book or even a re-read years later.
