Adventures in Coffee

One of the things I love about travelling is discovering the different way people do things. Like coffee for example. You get used to the way things are done at home and you think that it's like that every where you go but not true. Even for me who drinks her coffee black. They don't have "long black". So at first I ordered expresso but I'd get a tablespoon of coffee in a styrofoam cup. Then I ordered a double shot and they'd yell out doppio or something like that and I'd be standing there looking off into the distance with no idea that that was what I'd ordered. Eventually I just asked for a black coffee and it didn't bother me whether it came out of a cappacino machine or the drip coffee machine. It pretty much tasted the same.
Jules who has milk in her coffee had even bigger adventures. She wanted a cappacino with soy milk but the soy they use everywhere is super sweet, vanilla flavoured soy and it's like drinking syrup. So she'd ask for a latte with normal milk but it was so weak it was awful. Then she asked for a cappacino without foam but they didn't "get" it so it came with half a cup of foam and still too weak. Eventually she asked for a double shot cappacino with no foam and she got something close to what she wanted. Hilarious.