In each beautiful city, I sat in a sunny square or piazza, sipping cafe con leche or cappuccino and reading the notably broad pages of The IHT.
For a mid-morning coffee, head to Parque Central to sip a cafe negro (black coffee) at Cafe Barista, a Guatemalan chain where the aromatic roast is sourced from nearby farms.
G. J. and I took our breakfast here, helping ourselves to the delicious buffet in the adjacent dining room, then settling in to sip our cafe con leche and admire the courtyard's renaissance arches and moss-draped walls.
How wonderful it would be to come here every morning, set up my laptop, sip the cafe's excellent coffee and look up from my computer to see one of the most beautiful vistas imaginable — the rooftops of Puebla set against the background of the surrounding countryside.
"When I was nine, Nirvana's Nevermind came out and that was a sea change across the world," Clark recalls, sipping her cafe au lait.
The first New York branch of a Boston chain, Tealuxe has 101 varieties of loose tea for sale by the gram, or ready to sip in its cafe or at the counter.
There, you can sit among the poppies, foxglove and roses and sip tea (a cafe opens in the summer) and pretend to be George Sand, who lived nearby, and whose personal effects have been assembled in a reconstructed drawing room inside (even a lock of her hair).
In Sweden we also have Sex and the City camps for little girls where they learn how to go shopping and the most stylish way to sip on a cafe latte.
PRAGUE — A MIDDLE-AGED man sits in a cafe, sipping absinthe, the newspaper before him untouched.
Trussed up in all-terrain gear, they sip babyccinos in cafes, nonchalantly ride taxis and potter around farmers' markets at the weekend.
