Tuesday 1 March 2016

Anyone for coffee?

So lots of good news! The Swiss voted against the Enforcement Initiative – 60% - 40%. We've had lots more snow high up here on our little hill overlooking Winterthur. And we finally brought a coffee machine, another Swissli feather in our cap. 

Because the Swiss LOVE coffee. And the reason I have been fairly reluctant to invite my Swiss friends back for coffee is because until now we had no dinky little machine that features in every household and brings forth the most amazing coffee in minutes. Prior to this, my way of making coffee involved at least half an hour of my coffee pot chugging away on the cooker and resulted in rather strong coffee – the kind that leaves a little harshness in the back of your throat. And Swiss coffee always seems to be full of gorgeous flavour and so smooth, not requiring the urgent need to glag a glass of water after drinking. 

But at the same time I was unwilling to go down the coffee machine route - firstly because our kitchen is tiny and I could not see where on earth it would fit, and secondly because it seemed a little excessive for a family that drinks very little coffee (until now, we much preferred a cup of tea)

However, early this morning while shopping in Aldi, an offer on coffee machines leaped out at me. It looked so diddy, funky and cute, it just called to me in a quiet yodell-y kind of way. And before I knew it, I was at the checkout bearing my coffee machine and a pack of little coffee pots.

Two hours later, I am grinning my ass off after three expressos because the coffee tastes good and the machine is so funky – and fits perfectly into a tiny space between my mixer and microwave. So yes, I’m a convert. Bye bye tea bags and hello Crema gusto and Kaffeerahm J

8 comments:

  1. I used to really don't appreciate coffee until I try good one :) Now I must say I still love my tea but from time to time appreciate a good (nes)espresso ! Roll on coffee ! :) Bérénice from MySimpleLife.fr

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    1. This is the same for me Bérénice. I now know why I've never been such a big fan of coffee - because I have never tasted it so good. Cheers!

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  2. We got our first Nespresso right around the time we had our first daughter, now 6 1/2. We had to buy a new one from the USA to London and kept the same London one for Zurich. I can't imagine life without it anymore!

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    1. Snap - my youngest daughter is 6 1/2 too. Perhaps we could get together sometime and share our love of coffee while the girls play :)

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  3. Our bean to cup coffee machine has kept me at a happy 6-8 cups of coffee per day for the past 6 years... :)

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  4. Ooo, I bow to your coffee experience :) It's that wonderful aroma that fills the house aswell, isn't it? I love it.

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  5. I am becoming a coffee convert here in CH, too, and I was just telling my husband last night that we are going to need to get a coffee maker of some kind if we want to have people over. Everyone offers coffee here and we can't really do that right now.

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  6. Go for it! You won't look back. Ours is really tiny but so efficient - and just takes 1 minute to make the most glorious coffee :)

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