isle of skye coffee...

A list of things I really really love about Scotland:

Sheep
Hills
Moss
Fairies that look like ordinary bugs
Scones
People
Trees
Water
Cheese
Yogurt
Stories
Welcoming hostels
Fish & chips
The man and woman at who worked at the hostel we stayed at who I secretly watched make out from my window one night
The couple from Spain who were so sweet and wonderful, and who said “bye” to us on the day we were leaving without being told we were leaving

A things of things that I did not so much like about Scotland:

The smell of cup-o-noodles and hot sauce in the hostel
Beer
Sandwiches from grocery stores
COFFEE

Mostly I just did not enjoy the coffee offerings in the Isle of Skye. The coffee in Edinburgh was fine.

We when we ventured to the beautiful Isle of Skye we retained our enthusiasm for coffee in the morning. Jennifer had done some investigating the night we arrived and discovered that the coffee the hostel “provides” is instant coffee, so we immediately decided that we had to go elsewhere. The next morning we did go elsewhere, and I watched Jennifer go into a small house named “Harry’s” that was actually a store and I peered in the door as she approached the woman behind the counter and ordered a coffee. I watched the woman pick up an ancient pot of coffee and pour it into a cup, and I bolted. I began walking down the street and told Allison where I was going and she followed, because she wanted to buy postcards.

When we arrived at the King’s something or other restaurant I went into the food line and confidently approached the cashier and ordered a cappuccino. I smiled as I thought about how triumphant I was, choosing to be intentional about my coffee purchases. I was awoken from my daydream by the sound of a machine beginning to whir next to the cashier and saw her placing a cup under a nozzle and a grayish white liquid began pouring, FAST, into my cup. Before I could stop her, she was asking me if I wanted chocolate on the top. I said yes. She shook a generous amount of chocolate on the top of it and I gave her a pound fifty and walked away, defeated, into the most beautiful place I have ever been.