Weatherday: How do you like your tea?

Escalieres du Marché, Lausanne, Switzerland (2003).

Mainly dry, generally cloudy, with some sunny breaks.

Highest temperature 9deg in light southerly breezes.

On this day in 1773, American colonists threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbour in protest against British taxes. The Boston Tea Party drew England and the American colonies closer to war.

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