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I'm glad to say we can buy decent coffee in Germany, there are several local coffee roasters..For a better conscience I usually buy organic fair trade coffee. In their beginnings fair trade coffee was awful stuff, but that was decades ago;-)

I will vouch for that, Gudrun. I had excellent coffee at the airport in Frankfurt on my way back from Italy (coffee paradise!). At the San Francisco airport many hours later, I had mediocre coffee at one of our better coffee chains called Pete's. Ugh! Once you've had coffee in Italy, you're spoiled for life - lol!

The arrogant Starbuck's just opened in Milan and I hope they fail!

Yes, I read about Starbucks in Milan... I guess it will be tourists going there;-)

No doubt, especially Americans afraid of ordering coffee in a foreign country. If there's a Pizza Hut nearby, they'll be all set!