Smell Coffee: travel to different Coffee cities

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In terms of social function, the cafe is somewhat similar to the Chinese teahouse: its emergence has created a public space and flattened the class distinction, and as prices fall, people from all walks of life can go for a drink and participate in gossip. After hundreds of years of development, coffee has become a necessity of people's life and evolved into a beverage symbolizing "civilization".

Roman Greek Cafe

Standing up drinking coffee in Italy

Choice of famous families: Roman Greek Cafe

Illustrious background: the Greek Cafe is located on Condoti Avenue near the Piazza de Spain. Marble tables, sofa seats, waiters in tuxedos, countless mirrors, the illusion of going back in time makes people feel as if they were in the elegance of 1760. For decades, Greek cafes have become a must in Rome for holidays, and the caramel macchiato here is delicious and attractive. English poets Keats, Byron, Shelley; French writer Stendhal; Italian sculptor Canova; Danish sculptor Dubasson; Norwegian writer Ibsen; Russian writer Gorgory; Polish musician Chopin; French composer Berlioz, Bizi; Hungarian composer Liszt; in addition, the masterpiece of German writer Goethe the Princess of Tarives was completed here.

Sip slowly: the cafe is a social place for Italians, and a lot of news spreads from the cafe. Cafes are the first lesson to learn about Italy, but you have to learn to look like a local. Cheerful Italians prefer foreigners who know the rules when it comes to drinking coffee. Generally speaking, espresso is used 24 hours a day, but if you want to order Capucino, it must be before 10:30 in the morning.

This ancient Greek cafe is a deep and slender multi-hall structure. First of all, entering the cafe is for those who come in a hurry and are prepared to stand at the coffee counter for those who are in a hurry and have precious time. The coffee guests lined up to order all kinds of coffee, paid the bill, waited for the coffee to be cooked, stood aside to drink and talked, and then hurried off.

For those who have plenty of time and want to kill time, they will walk into the coffee shop as soon as they enter the coffee shop, either find a sofa or sit around a round glass table. In a moment, a waiter in a black tuxedo will come to order a drink for you. The walls of the hall are red, covered with famous paintings with gold-painted frames, celebrity handwriting and broad mirrors, coupled with the lighting of classical European wall lamps on the walls, making the halls very bright. Customers watch the pedestrians coming and going on the street while drinking coffee, and pedestrians often look at them, unable to tell who is the audience and who is the customer.

Travel tips

Visa: recently, Italy has streamlined the issuance of tourist visas to China, lifted the peak season restrictions, and can issue multiple round-trip visas for five years.

Transportation: fly from Guangzhou to Rome via Hong Kong, or transit to Paris by Air France, or transfer by Emirates via Dubai.

Accommodation: agoda, hrs and other booking sites are available. If you book through agoda, many high-star hotels have high performance-to-price ratio.

Food: spaghetti, roast beef slices with bread powder, stewed beef bones with strong vegetables, vegetable lard soup, large cakes, risotto and so on.

Barcelona four Cat Cafe

Drink coffee and see famous paintings in Spain

Choice of famous families: four Cat Cafe in Barcelona

Illustrious background: the four Cat Cafe is located on Montese Street in Barcelona, and tourists keep stopping at the door to look at the small face of the cafe and the poster of Ramon Casas. In 1899, 17-year-old Picasso held his first exhibition in this cafe, and his paintings were used as the cover of the menu. In Spanish, "four cats" means three or five people. There have been architects Gaudi, musician Isaac Albenis, and so on. But it may be difficult for three or five friends to maintain a pub, and six years later, "four cats" are also closed. Now the store reopened in 1978.

Sipping slowly: today, the lobby of the "four Cats" Cafe is still hung with replicas of Picasso's solo exhibition, and the interior furnishings and decoration make people go back to the golden age of Barcelona. Today, the most important asset of the four Cat Restaurant is the drafts and graffiti left by these literati when they were drinking coffee here.

The murals inside the restaurant have their own characteristics, and the overall feeling is like walking into a gallery, where you can not only edify your sentiment a little, but also enjoy the paintings while tasting delicacy.

Travel tips

Visa: EU Schengen visa.

Transportation: the most convenient is Air France transferring to Barcelona.

Food: Barcelona paella is very famous in the area. Lunch is served from 2pm to 03:30 and dinner is not served until 9pm. And the prices of Chinese restaurants are very cheap, the portions are abundant, and it is easy to find Chinese restaurants in the city center.

Choice of famous families: Fesavi Cafe in Cairo

Egyptian cafes smoke hookah

Choice of famous families: Fesavi Cafe in Cairo

Illustrious background: if you want to know Egypt, you have to go to a cafe. Modern statistics show that there is about one coffee shop for every 250 people in Cairo. For the people of Cairo, the cafe is not only the center of public opinion like some Western clubs, but also the meeting place of three religions and nine streams. The Fesavi Cafe is the oldest and most famous cafe in Cairo. It is located in the famous Hariri Market in the old city of Cairo and has a long history of 238 years. Mahfud M.D., a famous Egyptian writer and winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize for literature, was a regular visitor to the cafe.

Sip slowly: most people come to Fesavi Cafe for this old man. He is Najib Mahfud M.D., the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The cafe is open 24 hours a day, with a constant flow of people, not only locals, but also many admiring tourists. The cafe's "collection": squeaking ceiling fans, dusty mirrors, yellowed photos of celebrities, including the last king of Egypt, Farook.

Here, besides drinking coffee, you can also experience Arab hookah and other exotic amorous feelings. Hookah is the soul of Egyptian cafes. Many people go to cafes just to take a sip of hookah. The store prepared tobacco and charcoal fire and delivered it to the guests. Only saw the smoking filter open on one side, as long as inhaled, the smoke gurgled through the clear water in the bottom glass bottle, and a sweet taste spread. Egyptian tobacco is mostly sweet and greasy, and Maasil is the most popular flavor, but it is too strong and not too boring.

Travel tips

Visa: Chinese group tourists can apply for visa on arrival through travel agencies. Tourists from Schengen can also get visa on arrival when they travel to Egypt via a third country.

Transportation: Guangzhou can choose EgyptAir and fly directly to Cairo.

Accommodation: there are many high-end hotels along the Nile.

Food: Turkish dessert BAKLAVA. There is also local bread PITA, which is baked into stuffable ingredients from corn and wheat produced locally in Egypt, or can be torn into small pieces to eat in dipping sauce.