Tea in Geneva
Early this month, Manila Bulletin Lifestyle had afternoon tea with the current CEO of the Swiss luxury marquee Charriol, Coralie Charriol Paul. The conversation took place at 4 p.m. via video chat in the Philippines, and for Coralie who was in Geneva, our meeting was an elevenses, with a time difference of seven hours.For those unfamiliar with the term, elevenses is a short break or morning tea taken around 10 or 11. The details and the word differ depending on the country but have been widely used in pop culture from Winnie-the-Pooh to Paddington Bear to J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lo...
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