Unlike some of the more cost-effective travel spots around the world, European travel will gouge you with €6 coffees, €20 museum entry fees, and €200 a night hotel rooms the size of a tea pantry.
When he opened a reference book to look up the energy content of propane, he came across an entry for coffee, discovering to his surprise that coffee grounds release more heat than wood when they are burned.
There are also four coffee choices; the Chemex entry will set you back $18.
The countertenor Iestyn Davies sings a rapturous ode to coffee spoons – a new entry for that very short list of homages to inanimate objects headed by Puccini's aria to an overcoat in La bohème.
It has 2,400 square feet of enclosed living space, along with an outdoor barbecue area on the wooden top deck and an open-air coffee nook on the entry level.
These private spliff societies – which, unlike Amsterdam's coffee shops, only allow entry to members, rather than any old sweat-suited stoner straight off an EasyJet flight – have risen in number from around 40 in 2010 to over 700 today, according to smokers' groups.
He entered the Middle Temple in London, an institution then characterised by its appetite for literature rather than for law; here he wrote a play, The Old Bachelor, and made a rapid entry into coffee-house society.
Kishi estimates that he has now applied for 540 jobs – from graduate schemes, temporary work and recruitment agencies to coffee shops, cleaning jobs, entry-level administration jobs and database work.
I hate the idea of STALE COFFEE, but I loved the entry, and it's unique today, along with five other cool words or phrases.
