Melbourne: for the Coffee Lovers
When you move to Australia, be prepared to give up Tim Horton’s—and surprisingly (for any true Canadian Patriot) I don’t think you’ll miss it! But never fear teachers who tend-to-use-your-coffee-mug-like-a-cane, you will never have to look far for caffeine in Melbourne.
Melbourne is so well-regarded for its coffee (with the Italians making their mark—and brews—early in the establishment of the city) that it has become its own genre. Driving in country Victoria, if a cafe advertises proper “Melbourne coffee” you can trust that it will be righteously frothed and not the Mc-Cafe press-a-button-and-let-the-milk-and-coffee-drip-together kind which you want to avoid unless desperate.
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