Cafe culture and good coffee in foreign parts

June 20, 2009 - Melbourne, Australia

 Hello everyone!

This is our second effort at updating this blog, yesterday was sabotaged by power cables, cafe connections and a day  that needed to be got out into faster than we could seem to manage - the latter should be no surprise to anyone familiar with Webster time, jet lag or some sort of bug (not swine flu, we made it through the scannners so we must be ok, don't even think otherwise) and the sheer number of food stalls that need to be examined on nearly every street! I tried to ask various little ladies what a gelatinous lump of something green that was fried tempura style was and just got peals of laughter. We ended up buying fish cakes instead. This was prehaps a mistake - Bee and Steve both had dodgy stomaches afterwards.

After a day of acclimatising we have a frantically busy day planned for today but hyave taken time to sit in a funky little cafe over the road form the hotel, there is an elephant theme (Katrina would love it) and they serve the best coffee this side of Melboure (according to the notes plastered all over the windows) Steve agrees, nearly as good as Choix, stong and euro styyle rather than the Thai sweet and milky.

More soon,

Love the Webster


Pictures

Same giant golden chedi, different tourist
This is THE huge golden chedi
Kate liked THIS elephant the best
1/100 scale model of Angkor Wat
 
 

3 Comments

Sue and p:
June 20, 2009
We have fond memories of internet cafes dominated by crowds of young Buddhist monks & supervised by bored teenagers, BUT they always found us a place, maybe because we looked old & bewildered.
Belinda:
June 21, 2009
Is it as hot and humid as expected? No goss yet from work...
Mum and Garry:
June 22, 2009
Sounds fantastic so far, believe us, not half as much fun when things go right - retrospectively. For goodness sake give the fish cakes a miss, thought you loved our grandchildren.

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