Day 5: Cafe crawl

"Idemo na kavu" - Croatian for "Let's go for coffee", Perhaps one of the more sophisticated (i.e. non-"colourful") phrases I know in Croatian. In memory of Croatia, my favourite people in Europe (the Balkans)and the lazy Sundays my roommates and I spent in cafes in Prague, I decided to dedicate my entire Saturday afternoon to enjoying the cafe culture in Auckland.

I just had lunch with a friend and was a bit to queasy to take the ferry home after a very heavy meal that was recommended suggested by our friendly French waiter (noticing a trend in easily falling for men with exotic accents) so I decided to go get a smoothie from Shaky Isles, my new favourite cafe in town. It's quirky, it's cool, coffee is excellent and Colombiano and the staff is friendly (and some of them have exotic accents too ;)). I sat there, blogged, people watched, flicked through magazines, mused, casually eavesdropped on conversations around me and enjoyed my heavenly smoothie. As much as I didn't want to leave my sanctuary of refillable caffeine goodness, I was off to Cafe 2 and 3! L'Assiette, new fave chill out place, especially to watch the French rugby games, for some macaroons and coffee. I firmly believe that there is no problem that French accents and passion fruit macaroons cannot solve and I was right. Just as I was entering a sweet place we call "food coma", it was time for another caffeinated beverage. The espresso workshop was next and last on this wild cafe crawl. There's only so much coffee you can drink in a span of 2.5 hours. A shot of espresso and I was ready to call it a night. Tis sure was CraZzY crawl.

I'm not sure if a "cafe crawl" is a sign of me getting older and wiser (and boring) or me becoming more comfortable just spending an afternoon by myself in a caffeine induced state of nothingness...but I sure did like it.

I really like the quote that goes along the lines of, "I met a lot of people in Europe, I even encountered myself". I did encounter myself in Europe and I realised how I was a pretty cool person to hang out with ;) I didn't always need to be a social butterfly fluttering around in search of company, from one group of people to another. I could sometimes just stay curled up in my cocoon of personal space with myself and still have an awesome time. Saturday afternoon of lazing around in cafes around the Britomart block was just a prime example. As my Croatian flatmate would say, this caffeine fueled adventure sure was "jebeno" ;).