Proper tea for Troyes and Biarritz visitors

During a visit to a salon de thé in Troyes (Letters, 23 August), our choices of proper tea were put into little muslin squares and tied up with ribbon, which then had boiling water poured on them in the cup. We had been expecting it to come in pots, but these worked brilliantly. Following the salon’s example, we have had a tea timer for some years, which has three timers built in: orange sand for three minutes, blue for four, and green for five. More...