Drinking coffee is not just about the quality of the beans, the brand of coffee machine you used to make your coffee with or the type of vessel you drink it from...these days lifestyle coffee lovers really care about where they drink their coffee. Here are our top ten locations from best to quite good.

1. In bed. Simple and honest. Nothing beats hot coffee freshly ground whilst still half asleep in bed. Even better if you have someone special to turn on the coffee machine and make it for you!
   
   
2. On the beach at dusk. We all have our caffeine limits and for most that means having a final cup of espresso or latte around about dusk. Well, winter or summer it’s pretty hard to top the sea-breeze in your hair and the smell of the ocean while you gaze out to sea with coffee in hand, for one final moment of serenity before you make your way home...
   
   
3. On a mountain top, sitting by a fire. Yep. It can be done. All you need is a backpack, a portable gas stove, a small pot, some freshly ground coffee beans and some milk in a jar and you’ve got yourself a camper’s coffee machine. Coffee machine in cafes are one thing, but when you do it yourself from scratch there’s nothing quite like it.
   
   
4. At your favourite cafe on a day off. An obvious one, but still there’s nothing quite like that feeling of having time on your hands while grasping a hot cup of coffee that was just made using one of your favourite coffee machines and sitting there until you simply have to go somewhere else because the cafe is about to close.
   
   
5. In the park on a break. Fresh air and fresh coffee is a great combination. Coffee and people watching is an even better one. Over a cup of coffee ideas unravel and things start to make sense, much more sense than they do inside staring at four walls and a computer.
   
   
6. Anywhere in Italy. Since Italy is the mother of coffee machines and the grandmother of espresso, it’s pretty hard to go past it without feeling a craving for a cup of genuine java. Coffee and coffee machines shine in their element all over the country, so it doesn’t really matter which region you’re in you are bound to find a cup of coffee that will stick to your memory long after the caffeine dissipates.
   
   
7. On a mountaintop cafe in the Alps after a few hours of skiing. Skiing and hot chocolate is the stuff of usual skiers. Piping hot coffee and skiers on mountaintops is the stuff of dreams. Think about it...when you’re skiing you don’t need to relax, you need to get and stay pumped. A coffee machine is going to be a lot more useful than a kettle. And we haven’t even started on the majestic view yet...
   
   
8. On a train at the start of a long journey. Journeys always have a sense of romance associated with them and honestly, so do coffee beans and coffee machines. There’s that sort of daydream feeling you get when you think about them. So a coffee, perhaps a takeaway from your favourite cafe, on a train ride to who knows where, while you sit back and let your mind takeover....try it.
   
   
9. In a bookshop cafe. Books and coffee. Another winning combination and no one’s quite sure why – it just works. Sitting in a cafe with the sound of the coffee machine buzzing in the background while glancing over at all the aisles of books and more books is almost like meditating.
   
   
10. At the airport waiting for a plane. The excitement of embarking upon a journey couple with the buzzing sensation that a shot of coffee leaves you with is quite magical. The only challenge is finding a decent coffee machine or cafe at the airport. Our cafe lifestyle has managed to up the ante at the airport in terms of coffee providers, but still it might not be the same as drinking a coffee in the city. Still, way worth considering.

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