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.
I too absolutely loooove Rooibos tea! It doesnt have the bitter aftertaste you get with regular black tea…which is also why I love green tea (yuck to black tea). Rooibos is also without coffein…so I can drink it late at night and still sleep like a baby (provided the bf doesnt snore…). Have you tried green tea with grapefruit btw? I cant get it here…they only have with orange or lemon..which for some reason I cant drink (f’ing coldsore) but grapefruit is ok…(wuddefok?) and it is soooo good! Anyways…I wish I could link your blog in my blog, cause i never find the link to this one and only rarely get to read it for that very reason.