Afternoon Tea

I always finish sixth form at lunch time on Wednesdays, and coincidentally Mum had the day off work yesterday. So as a midweek treat, we went to a local French patisserie for afternoon tea.

When we got in there we spent ages deciding what to choose because they had so many different sweet things! Eventually we both decided on hot chocolate then I had a giant raspberry macaroon and Mum had an amazing-looking coconut meringue (which I didn't manage to get a good picture of, sorry!). I'd never been to this particular cafe before but the food was really nice and I loved the decoration too - all French film posters and knick-knacks - it was like going into a little French oasis in the middle of my town which is probably as far from French culture as you can get. And as a little bit of a francophile, I liked this a lot. I know this wasn't a massive, life-changing event but it's just little things like this that brighten up my week.

My Belgian exchange partner is arriving tonight which is exciting. I might be able to blog about some of the things we get up to this week.

What have you been up to this week?