Take a tea break

has a landscape far more theatrical than that of the UK. Mist-shrouded mountains and terraced tea plantations surround the area, while world-class brews are in abundance.

Mature solo travel experts One Traveller run tours to Sri Lanka where visitors can enjoy the slower pace of life and drink in the destination. The itinerary includes a picturesque train ride from Kandy to the tea plantations, passing by villages, waterfalls and mountains, before reaching the tea estates. Guests have the chance to sample the finest Ceylon teas before being shown the stages of the tea-making process at the factory (16 days from £4,190 per person).

Visitors to Nashville will find fruit tea – also called fruit punch or tea punch – on menus across the city, from biscuit houses to barbecue joints, bagel shops to burrito restaurants.

It’s a concoction of sweet tea brewed with orange juice, lemon, and sometimes other fruit juices, served in everything from crystal glasses to plastic cups, and seasoned with cinnamon, sprigs of mint or slices of lemon.

Nashville’s fondness for fruit tea dates back to the 70s when it was enjoyed by ladies who lunch, and has since made its way to the masses. Local state legend Daisy

King opened Miss Daisy’s

Tearoom (now Kitchen) in

Franklin, just south of Nashville, in

1974 and served her first customers tea punch sweetened with pineapple juice – which remains on her menu today. It’s believed she was one of the first to introduce fruit tea to menus.

Today, Caribbean-themed Calypso

Café has a popular version, as does Baja

Burrito, while Knockout Wings, Star Bagel, McCabe Pub and Corner Market also offer their own variations. Fruit tea is very much a hit with the locals, who pop in from nearby office and federal buildings and order it with housemade potato chips as a modern Nashville

tea-time ritual.