Coffee, Tea, or How About Both?!?
It seems to me that there are countries known for 
coffee -- Guatemala, Colombia, and the Independent Nation of San Francisco -- and there are countries known
for tea -- England, Ireland, the Federated Island of SJB. For me, a cup of tea is the essential start to my day, and I can deal with a tea bag (the higher the quality the better: I'm talkin' to you, Lipton's) with lukewarm coffee-flavored water, which is generally what a tea drinker gets in a coffee country (or a motel). But, ideally, a nice loose-leaf tea, piping hot water, a splash of milk: that's the stuff. I have had the opportunity to observe a coffee drinker in his natural habitat, and it seems that the same general principal is true for the other side: coffee drinkers can deal with the "bad" stuff, but they'd prefer either "good" coffee or "evil" coffee (which is coffee that transcends goodness to a thick, black viscous liquid, or so I've been told).
So where can one go to satisfy the caffeinated beverage needs of everyone?
Sitting around a bad cup of coffee and a meh cup of tea recently in Brazil, Team Coffee and Team Tea came up with some possible travel destinations that hold equal appeal for both sides:
Turkey
Indonesia
Morocco
Kenya
Peru
This is an ambitious and limited travel itinerary, but it will just have to do.
coffee -- Guatemala, Colombia, and the Independent Nation of San Francisco -- and there are countries known
for tea -- England, Ireland, the Federated Island of SJB. For me, a cup of tea is the essential start to my day, and I can deal with a tea bag (the higher the quality the better: I'm talkin' to you, Lipton's) with lukewarm coffee-flavored water, which is generally what a tea drinker gets in a coffee country (or a motel). But, ideally, a nice loose-leaf tea, piping hot water, a splash of milk: that's the stuff. I have had the opportunity to observe a coffee drinker in his natural habitat, and it seems that the same general principal is true for the other side: coffee drinkers can deal with the "bad" stuff, but they'd prefer either "good" coffee or "evil" coffee (which is coffee that transcends goodness to a thick, black viscous liquid, or so I've been told).So where can one go to satisfy the caffeinated beverage needs of everyone?
Sitting around a bad cup of coffee and a meh cup of tea recently in Brazil, Team Coffee and Team Tea came up with some possible travel destinations that hold equal appeal for both sides:
Turkey
Indonesia
Morocco
Kenya
Peru
This is an ambitious and limited travel itinerary, but it will just have to do.
Labels: lovely beverages, Wanderlust
posted by SJB at 10:52 AM
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