Tag: "cappuccino"

Photo of the Day: New Year Blessing
2

Photo of the Day: New Year Blessing

Happy New Year: may you all be blessed with love, warmth, good health, laughter, and of course, good food!

Camp for Caffeinated Rebels
6

Camp for Caffeinated Rebels

Ongoing coffee wars: boo to the $4 Starbucks, yay to the $1 McDonald’s. Can’t taste the difference. Right?
I am an absolute novice when it comes to coffee. Remember, I’m the one with the baby taste buds and so yes, coffee has traditionally been too bitter for me. And it makes me pee like nobody’s business.
But [...]

La Dolce Vita in the Eternal City
4

La Dolce Vita in the Eternal City

I’m just back from having spent 5 days walking around Rome and sitting in cafes sipping on coffees and people watching.  I was lucky to be staying with a friend who is from Rome and so knows the “Real” Rome!  After the mandatory stops at the Pantheon, Colosseum, St. Peter’s Square and Basilica, Trevi Fountain, [...]

Life is a beach...
7

Life is a beach…

Ok, so you may think that doing 4 to 6 hour days on Sardinian beaches is an easy task, but let me tell you, it’s not as easy as it looks! I admit that I have been living it up in the island of my birth these past couple of weeks, spending much of [...]

Bewleys Cafe - An Irish Institution
0

Bewleys Cafe – An Irish Institution

No visit to the Fair City of Dublin is complete without a visit to the famous Bewleys Cafe on Grafton Street. My mother first visited the cafe back in the 50s with her grandmother, and since then, we have always popped in every time we have passed through Dublin for a coffee and a [...]

DIY cappuccino?
2

DIY cappuccino?

Welcome all to my ramblings about coffee!
I took this picture of my cafe macchiato as I departed from Milan airport on my most recent trip to Italy.  Every trip I take back to the land of my birth just reminds me over and over again how much I miss the daily good cappuccino experiences in [...]