Originally Posted by
FantomZorbin
Danny, you didn't miss much, the water is desalinated and makes the tea taste ghastly ... after 2+ years it tastes a little better but the tea back in the UK takes a bit of getting used to on RTB!!
I would amend that to nominally desalinated... and I think ghastly is extremely generous.
We were self-catering so the equipment wasn't a problem but, IIRC, we bought bottled water for making tea.
Fortunately the Hopleaf Bitter was perfectly acceptable.