Bad Upgrade

Posted on Monday, September 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Upgrading wordpress is nver as easy as it should be, this time it managed to log me out and made it impossible to get back in. For a moment I thought the blog was going to sit here like a vegetable forever.

Caffe Florian and The Story of The Most Expensive Coffee in the World

Posted on Sunday, September 28th, 2008 | 2 Comments

Continuing with the Venice theme, now I’d like to turn the subject over to coffee.
Firstly let me start by m my experiences of coffee in Italy as a whole. On average I found the quality of espresso to be of a higher standard in the UK, but nothing blew me away. That said, we didn’t [...]

Harry’s Bar - Venice

Posted on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 | No Comments

Harry's resized
The story goes that a talented Venecian bartender named Giuseppe Cipriani helped out a chap called Harry from Boston with some sticky money issues (borught about by his drinking habit). A couple of years later Harry returned to Venice much better off and paid back Cipriani five times what he borrowed telling him to set up a bar and call it ‘Harry’s’.