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    TIME FOR TEA

    Mar 30, 2018 3 minutes

    Tendrils of mist cling to the tea-shrouded mountains of Sri Lanka’s Hill Country. It is four o’clock, time for tea and cake on the stone-paved verandah of Ashburnham Estate, the erstwhile homestead of this working plantation. Today it is a six-bedroom boutique hotel that invites guests to relive the refinement of a bygone era. As we nibble on scones with cream and sip on tea grown on the estate, we imagine what life might have been like for the Englishman who came to seek his fortune here in the 1930s.

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