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This is a mountain spring and now I'll tell you the story of how we came here.

Unce upon a time there was a girl named Gina and Tongsong was the name of her favourite tea 🍵. It is a second flush Darjeeling and, like all Darjeeling, comes from West Bengal.

When her Tongsong ran out, she told Rainer to bring some. Soon after, the delivery of tea arrived with Rainer. 😍

But the tea didn't taste like Tongsong at all, more like a Ceylon, so a world of difference. Had he brought the wrong tea? Rainer, the tea connoisseur? Unlikely. It had to be the water 💦.

You can drink the tap water here in Crete, but it's not necessarily great if you can tell the difference in the taste of the water. However, there is a water filter system with osmosis and activated carbon in the apartment and that is exactly the water she used to make tea. And with this water the tea tasted like Ceylon 🙁.

That's why Rainer asked Matthes about the mountain spring he knows, Matthes has also spent the winter here a few times.

So Rainer & Gina drove quite some kilometers to the mountain spring and filled up all the bottles they had. Lo and behold! Finally the tea tasted just like Tongsong should taste ❤️.

And if they didn't die, they still drink Tongsong tea with mountain spring water.Read more