A week of vacation - here's how to keep bees out of your mint tea in Morocco

After a hike in Chefchaouen, we wanted some refreshing mint tea. We stopped at a beautiful little cafe on a hillside and asked for tea and water. The waiter and the owner tried to dissuade us from ordering tea - they said the bees would attack us. But we thought we'd be clever and cover our glasses with napkins and drink from straws.
The waiter told us when he arrived with our tea that the straws would melt. He had brought a huge bottle of water with just one glass, and two tall glasses of tea with saucers to cover them. It would be up to us to figure out how to drink from the glasses.  Here's what we ended up doing!