Herend porcelain pairs well with tea time and TeaTime Magazine

Enjoying tea time with Herend tea cup and TeaTime Magazine

Herend porcelain is beautiful china from Hungary with a rich past. Its elegant tea cups - in a variety of unique patterns - pair well with afternoon tea and TeaTime Magazine. In fact, the history of Herend is included in the current (May/June) issue of TeaTime Magazine, featured as one of its cover stories. Your humble BTS blogger had as much fun writing about this amazing porcelain manufacturer as we did shopping for its fine products in Budapest.

 

May/June issue cover stories include "The History of Herend China"

Last fall, as part of a Blue Danube cruise, we visited Germany, Austria and, on its final stop, Hungary. While in Budapest, we supped on goulash, visited a castle, and sampled several varieties of paprika, but, perhaps the most exhilarating experience was shopping at one of the three Herend shops in this capital city.

Outside one of the Herend stores in Budapest with tea cup in the bag

For the full scoop, turn to page 75 of the May/June TeaTime Magazine. 

We are super fans of TeaTime and have found many connections via this very special specialty publication. Starting back in 2014, when we read about a Denver tea lady and, after meeting her in person in Colorado, shared the experience in "The Tea Diaries" feature of the magazine. We later wrote stories about Highclere Castle (aka "the real Downton Abbey") and a couple of unexpected tea rooms in Italy, all included in the pages of TeaTime.

We're still bonding with lovers of tea and of TeaTime wherever we travel, including just last month, when we stayed at a most charming Virginia B & B. The owner had a display of  TeaTime magazines on a wicker table in the sunroom and she brought out the May/June issue that had just arrived.

The History of Herend penned by Barbara Gulley

We're making Herend porcelain our new collector's obsession, as time and budget allows, but TeaTime is a most affordable luxury every other month and it pairs well with just about everything.

Bonding with fellow tea enthusiasts over TeaTime in our travels