Abercrombie and Kent

Last week I was kindly invited to attend an event at Boutique travel agent Abercrombie and Kent, and I took the mysterious Miss Lucy J Loves along with me.

Now to be perfectly honest I didn’t expect a lot, I mean it’s a travel agent how much could they seriously make a store look good… but oh how wrong I was! I arrived at a store full with people and was welcomed by two elaborate carved wooden statues at the entrance. Inside the store the area wasn’t filled desks and office chairs but with beautiful wooden tables, a bar area and secluded seating areas.

The room was also filled with beautiful Indian statues, flower petals, candles and even Indian musicians to set the mood.

We were greeted and handed a set of questions that we had to find out the answers too throughout the night to be entered in to a draw to win a holiday to India. We started with one of the tailor made cocktails and then headed for some India sweets covered in gold leaf. We chatted to a few people and learnt a lot about India and it’s culture. My favorite character of the night had to be Jack, the travel curator; his Morecombe and Wise impression cracked me up.

We ended up chatting to much and sort of forgot to fill in our questions so there was no chance of us winning that holiday.. Opps! But it was announced at the end of the night and there was one very excited family.

After our night of India culture and learning we headed off in to the night with our travel brochures to plan our Indian adventures