The Adventurists & Hencrick's Gin would like to declare victory in the Afternoon Tea Revolution. After a three year international series of tea and ginneous gatherings the Afternoon Tea with Legend of Adventure has reached its victorious end.

The humble tea leaf has long been synonymous with adventure. Columbus, Magellan, Cooke, Heyerdahl, Mallory... they all loved a good cup of tea as they pored over maps and plotted their next discoveries. The Adventurists Afternoon Tea with a Legend of Adventure was created in homage to this noble partnership.

In 2009 a certain Colonel Blashford-Snell kicked off the revolution with talk of bullet dodging on the Nile and ingenious ways to cook tinned sardines whilst all in attendance sipped on lapsang souchongs. Mr. Benedict Allen was the second legend of choice and enthralled all with his anecdotes of murdered dogs, harrowing "crocodile" male initiation ceremonies in Papua New Guinea and tackling of the Bering Straits during the coldest Siberian winter in 40 years.

In 2010 the tea revolution stormed on with the likes of motorbike adventurers Loise Pryce and Bernardo Galvan, overland travel writer Peter Moore and human power circumnavigator Jason Lewis.

It then became apparent that a certain gin comapny was rather interested in our peculiar tea based antics. And to that end, Hendrick’s Gin and The Adventurists banded together and in 2011 the Afternoon Tea went worldwide with events in London, Edinburgh, Madrid, Phillidelphia and Sydney.

The vital ingredients were brought together; tea flown in from the far corners of the globe, the finest homemade cakes, music and performers, splendidly selubrious surroundings and of course Hendrick's Gin. No Afternoon Tea was complete without lashings of Hendrick's Gin.

The first tea of 2011 enthralled all with tall tales from the sea from Sir Chay Blyth the first chap to sail single-handed the wrong way around the world. We flew the extraordinary Mr. Charles Brewer-Carias to Phillidelphia to speak for the first time outside Venezuela. Jesús “The Jackal” García Barcala was our Legend in Madrid and is also an Adventurists veteran having done the Mongol Rally & Rickshaw Run. Tim Fitzhigham amused all with his copper-bath English Channel escapades and Australia's greatest living adventurer, Jon Muir came out of hiding to finish the series down-under.

With victory declared on the Afternoon Tea Revolution, what is next? Keep a beady eye on plans evolving from the map room by signing up to our Jibber Mailout and the Hendrick's Curiositorium. What do you think it we'll be up to with Hendrick's Gin next? Let us know in the comments below.

Take a read through some of the blog round ups from the Afternoon Teas: