Tag: coffee

  • Heaven in Trieste

    Heaven in Trieste

    It’s unlikely, for a number of good reasons, that after my death I shall end up in heaven.  But if it happens, and if – an even more remote possibility – St Peter offers me a choice of where exactly in that fine place I’d like to be, I’d ask whether he could arrange for…

  • Coffee, public and private

    Coffee, public and private

    Treorci is still a real town. It sits far enough up the Rhondda Fawr and has a big enough hinterland to support a good array of shops, mostly independent, and a lively civic life. The best way of approaching it is on the road from Ogmore Vale. The other day we drove down from Bwlch…