The Various Flavours Of Coffee
a recent survey has found it to be amongst the most misery-inducing jobs in Britain. Far from a life of pulling a few pints, chatting to regulars, and convivially setting the world to rights, the reality appears to be very different. Instead, today’s publicans will tell you that the pressure is relentless, and a sixty-hour week (if it’s a quiet one
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Paris, délimité d’un côté par l’Arc de Triomphe et de l’autre par la place de la Concorde. La rue Saint-Denis avec ses voyous et ses putes, proposant ouvertement aux passants leurs marchandises et leurs corps, artère morte le jour mais vibrante de sexe et de danger, de désir et de violence quand le soleil se couche. Montparnasse plein d’intellectue
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A cafe in Paris, a cocktail lounge in Palm Springs, a beachside bar in Rio De Janeiro, a lokanta in Istanbul.
Jill Barber — Jill Barber
He read the suicide story twice against the racket of steel blades grinding single estate beans. Something rankled. There was a prolonged and dangerous-sounding hissing, and a solitary stream of espresso poured into a white cup. Edward Fellowes jumped from the bridge late on Thursday night. But there were any number of bridges along the Tyne, why w
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