CAN’T MISS COFFEE
📍Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
I’ve been hinted at in the past I may have quite the ‘coffee’ addiction. I put the word coffee in quotation entirely for the purpose that . . . it’s usually not coffee. While I use the term loosely, it will almost always be a matcha, chai or, in this photos’ case, a London fog. The irony doesn’t escape me that I landed in London, explored the city, took a 4 hour train ride to go to an entirely different country only to have a London fog.
However, my addiction is not just to the drink in hand – it’s the entire experience. The act of getting ready at the beginning of my day, getting dressed, packing my things, and getting out of the house going towards a set destination. Then entering the coffee shop being greeted by a caffine fueled barista (I can relate) and either the relief of air condition after a blisteringly hot day or the comfort of central heating from a frozen day where you might as well have grown isicles on the walk. After you’ve ordered your coffee and started settling down in a usually quiet, aromatic corner of the world just for you, you can get lost in whatever enterainment you’ve brought yourself. As an American, I can confidently say we are, along with other things, in a third place crisis. If you didn’t know a what a third place is, it is anywhere that’s easily accessible and not your home nor work. So basically the spot you go to meet with friends or be entirely on your own, the point is it is your choice.
TRAVEL TIP 💡
On this trip we went to many – and I mean many – coffee shops. Whether they we’re planned or ones we saw on the side of the road in highlands that we turned around to get back to, rest assured nary a shop was missed. The image in this photo is – as I mentioned before- a London fog. We got it from one of the cutest shops I have ever seen. It was called EDINBRUGH PRESS CLUB. I honestly can’t recommend it more. I found the barista who helped us to be incredibly sweet, when I told her I was apply to the University of Edinbrugh she gave me the student discount as a good luck for my application. the text pictured on my cup “Good Luck! Enjoy Edinburgh!” has follow me into my days of barista-hood.
It’s really the small things that make all the difference when you’re traveling. From picking the right bnb to finding a coffee shop that welcomes you as you are – I make it a personal mission of mine to do my very best to figure it all out. It’s little messages like these that tell me I’m doing the right thing. Little signs from the universe to continue exploring the world. I hope someday that someone comes into the coffee shop I work at and orders a london fog, so that I get the chance to repay the favor that girl did to me.
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