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Betsi Quarantini

BETSI QUARANTINI 'Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift, there is nothing small about it.' In honour of International Nurses Day, which falls on Florence Nightingale's Birthday, 200 years ago this year, we have taken the wonderful cocktail - the Flying Tigre - and modified it a touch to include a waft of Star Anise. Star Anise is a well known remedy for flu like symptoms and we hope you enjoy this small tribute to nurses everywhere. In the Crimea, along with Florence Nightingale, there was an extraordinary Welsh nurse called Betsi Cadwaladyr. She didn't always see eye to eye with Florence Nightingale but nevertheless she brought her own intuitive style of nursing to the soldiers...

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