Bernina Express IX

100 Strangers Series: 23

We have a new coffee vendor in the Ferney Market! Allen Toocaram sells coffee which he roasts himself and tea. His business is called Grain & Feuille. Check him out sometime and tell him Maya sent you!

Mmmmm, Coffee

Coffee at Crêperie Ti Breizh in Ferney-Voltaire. One of our favorite places to go in our little town. I love the "Daddy" sugar cube.

Ilanz, Switzerland

We drove to Ilanz one day while in Graubunden. It is the bigger town in the valley and we needed to do a bit of shopping.



Is this the crosswalk?






The breakfast we ate before heading into town.

Breakfast at Le Select

A breakfast at Le Select in the Montparnasse is not to be missed. I think sitting here with all the artists in the 1920's would have been a blast!



The bathroom was a photographer's dream!

100 Strangers Series: 10 and 11

We met these two men in Aarberg. They insisted we stop and have coffee with them. It was later than I should have been drinking coffee, but I obliged since they had already bought it. The man on the left is Herr Schneeberger and the one on the right is Herr Nestau. Herr Nestau didn't have a high opinion of Americans or Australians. Oh well, can't win 'em all!



The gentlemen informed us that the factory we saw on the other side of the bridge was making sugar. Thus the sugar packet seen here. I was told I had to have the sugar in my coffee. Luckily, it didn't kill me (being white death and all).

100 Strangers Series: 9

I happened to be at Stumptown on 12th the other day buying some coffee beans and they were having a coffee tasting downstairs! Charlie (pictured here) led us through the whole process. It was a bit like wine tasting, but there were a lot more rounds of smelling the coffee before the actual tasting. When tasting, we spit into a cup just like you do when wine tasting so we wouldn't get too over-caffeinated. I got to try some coffee that costs about $95 a bag!

Demolition of a Block

Vivace was one of my favorite places to get coffee and was located only a block from me. Now it's moved further down Broadway to make way for the demolition of this block and the next to make way for the new Capitol Hill Light Rail Station. I'm excited to see the light rail come to the Hill, but sad that it won't be complete until 2012!



This decorated wall surrounds another piece of property where the Jack in the Box used to be in the other block that is being demolished. Hey, did you know Jack is a Taurus like me? I'm not sure what to think of that.

It was that kind of Monday morning...

Seen in my co-worker's cube.

wandering the 'hoods

This was seen in the Wallingford neighborhood. I was up there to see the movie Doubt. This movie provided some very good discussion with my friend while driving to our next destination.



We drove to the Seward Park neighborhood next to do some food shopping at the PCC, but first we had coffee at Cafe Vita. I loved this place. The barista was very nice and he was playing Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley. It really fit the mood with the darkness and rain pouring down outside.

Java break

I'm pretty sure getting coffee this morning was the best thing that happened to me all day.