Tea festival tourism?

If you haven’t been to Northwest before I’d highly recommend it. I’m not sure I’ll get there this year so I might be looking for someone to video one of the tasting sessions if they will allow it. I need something to show the presenters at the Midwest festival as an example. Vancouver I’m just hoping to be able to go to myself. :)

If I am able to go it will likely be just for Saturday— PM me closer to the event if you don’t find a reliable videographer!

I will! Thanks, sren. :)

San Francisco, LA, Kansas City or Austin close enough for reasonable airfare? I think there is movement toward starting one in Las Vegas as well.

Start talking to tea vendors who are close enough to come to ABQ and try to sell them on putting one together! There’s plenty of evidence to support that tea festivals are a growing phenomenon right now. :)

Austin would the closest. But I don’t really want to go to Texas. SFO is south of SF city, but perhaps I could attend someday.

You’ve been as a guest though, right?

No, in the years past, it just wasn’t a good time for me to travel – it always seems that something occurs during that time of year (in years past, it’s been in August, I believe) and I just couldn’t get away to go. :( Next year though, I definitely want to go. Even if we can’t set up a booth, I want to go as a guest.

Yeah, I’m pondering World Tea next year since Vegas flights are generally reasonable. I thought Elyse from Tealet said they were trying to get a Vegas festival together, though.

I’ll probably go to the Vancouver one too.

I can’t believe I forgot about that. I went to that one and was so pissed off about it at the time because I’d bought my tickets in advance and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t until I had been waiting in line for some time that I found out that they sold too many tickets and wouldn’t be able to fit everyone in. I eventually got in, but I also waited in line for a ridiculous amount of time.

That was their first tea festival and they’ve held other events since then so I don’t think they’ll make the same mistake again, but haha wow that was an irritating experience.

I would love to take a mini vacation and go to one of these, but I would be so mad if I traveled all that way and got turned away.

I second Marzi. I would be furious.

It would piss me off to not be allowed in but I figure the worst thing would be that I’d be in a new city to explore and I could probably find tea and nummies to entertain me. :) I’ve been to Vancouver once and wished I had more time.

The website says a “new larger venue in East Vancouver”.

Handily I have a map of a lot of (not all of, just a lot of) tea places in Vancouver available…

http://goo.gl/maps/gXsKK

Maybe we should all just meet in some “tea city” and drink tea together for days.

When Dex came to visit in the spring we went to The Chinese Tea Shop and Treasure Green, and must have spent at least 2 hours drinking tea in each store. Seriously amazing. It was so much fun to do that with a tea friend, especially since we like such different things!

That sounds like a fantastic idea, Marzipan.

I’m agreeing with OMGsrsly. If in Vancouver plan to spend a couple of hours at The Chinese Tea Shop and Treasure Green. If you like straight Chinese teas both those shops would be must visit type places. Their hospitality was just amazing. It’s incredibly fun exploring tea spots in a new city with a tea friend. :)