Fancy A Drink?

I'm talking about coffee. It isn't simply a "coffee" anymore. From a young age I always enjoyed a cup of coffee. I thought it was grown up to drink it I suppose. It was made by my mum who made either "kettle" or "milky" coffee with Nescafe instant from a jar.

In Bognor there was the weekly treat of going to town to get a milky coffee from the cafe called Macari's. It was owned by a family of Italians who drove Ferrari's of course! They sold the usual sandwiches and hot food, but it was for the coffee I liked to go there. They served their coffee in clear glasses with silver metal holder, how sophisticated! After all it was the 1980s!

In the last ten years coffee is no longer JUST coffee: espresso, latte, Mocha Cappuccino..the list is endless.

There are coffee shops on every corner; Starbucks, Nero and my favourite Costa, there are at least 8 of those in Liverpool city centre. While I write this in my little note book I am sat in Starbucks drinking a small skinny cappuccino sheltering from the rain, resting my feet and reading a few pages of my latest book. Its my way to relax and escape from the busy world around me, most of the time though too many people think the same thing, its busy, noisy and it is hard to find a seat and the queue is a mile long (ok a bit of an over estimate). The other day I was hungry but the foreigners in front of me were fingering all the sandwiches and that put me off..fruit bread it was then!

When it comes to ordering my coffee its never a white coffee its 'medium one shot americano with hot skinny milk'...I have ordered so many now it rolls off the tongue!

What I HATE about Starbucks is the horrid mugs they are heavy and clumsy. At least Costa have proper cups and saucers, but even they have the cup on the side of the plate why? I also can't stand the huge cups they have with 2 handles? You have to be a weight lifter to pick them up full of coffee, plus that size coffee must give such a caffeine fix!

I will just stick to my: small, large, one shot Espresso, Americano, with hot skinny semi-skimmed whole milk, chocolate, mocha, sprinkles, and cream..oh actually cancel that I will have a tea?