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East Coast Roadtrip – Ashville and Charlotte

Ashville seems to be something of an odd place considering its location. I wasn’t aware of its reputation as being one of the more relaxed, liberal (though I hate the word) cities in the South, but when you get there it does have a very different feel. I also appreciated the rocking chairs [...]

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East Coast Roadtrip – Counter Culture Roastery, NC

I confess I knew more about Counter Culture’s coffee than I did about the company itself. I was excited to visit their roastery and also we were honoured to stay in the House of Chang.
I also confess that the change in the clocks caught me off guard and it took me a little while [...]

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East Coast Roadtrip – Washington, DC

Washington’s event was the first one in a Counter Culture training centre, and I was curious to see how it would be set up. We were due to cup at 10, but first we headed to a place called Tryst for a little breakfast and coffee (thank you David, for coffee and for suffering [...]

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East Coast Roadtrip – Easton and Baltimore

As I said in my last post the next event on my calendar was the barista jam at Easton, presented by Counter Culture and Troy from Cosmic Cup did a lot of the organisational stuff and hosting on the evening and day. We got in to Easton and bumped into John Hornall from Chestnut [...]

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Presents!

The last couple of days have been great! Three different parcels, all cool stuff.
First off was a large box from Compak. I had no idea what this might be and I opened it up to find this:

They had planned to give it to me in Tokyo but it had got stuck en route [...]

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