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Coffee and Art of Hidden Luxury

Chris Farmer RSS / 15.01.2015. u 10:07

As usual, it all started at the airport.

Many of you who have experienced the Great Airports of the World - Heathrow, JFK, Dubai, and Belgrade's own Nikola Tesla - will know already what I am talking about. This is a subject, in fact, which is so well known to frequent fliers as to be superfluous to set to pixels. It is a level of luxury which we have come to expect, but it is not for the uninitiated...

This having been said, however, I would like to share this exquisite secret. Please, before we begin, I must ask you NOT to share this with anyone. Need to know basis. Ok?

(Pause while waiting for your assent. 15 minutes.)

As usual, it all started at the airport. I had a little extra time while waiting to pick up my sons at Nikola Tesla and decided to have a walkabout. I chanced upon the Dufry-run café in the departures area before passport control.

Coffee, I said to myself?

To the casual airport-walker-arounder, this appeared to be a Perfectly Ordinary Café. On first inspection, one could see that 97.5% of the tables has not been cleaned for several hours (or days). One could browse the selection of sandwich (1) in the display window next to the drinkable fruit yogurt. The uneducated would think it looked like a poorly (and oddly) stocked aisle at a Delhaize supermarket.

But they would be mistaken, of course.

 

 

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Kraja Kraja 11:05 15.01.2015

...kafa...

...na "tesli" se pije samo jednom u zivotu...
...iz neznanja...
...svaki sledeci put je mazohizam...
uros_vozdovac uros_vozdovac 11:38 15.01.2015

Re: ...kafa...

At least there is one good news, this place have working hours from 09:00 `till 23:00, so no harm in-between.
qqriq qqriq 11:53 15.01.2015

so

glad you have wrote this!
Sepulturero Sepulturero 12:10 15.01.2015

DUFRY

Good you did not try the sandwich .

I always wandered why did we give this business to Dufry. Is there nobody in Serbia who could do this? Was there a tender?

True, it is a Swiss company and one could expect reasonable service and quality. As it is we only got swiss prices.
nim_opet nim_opet 16:29 15.01.2015

Ziveo Dufry

I mean - before Dufry the option, especially for early morning flights...well, there was none. In 1999, I bought a sandwich off a cart (no idea why there was a cart, I think they might have been doing some renovation etc.); after asking for either some cutlery or if they could cut it in half (it was akin to subway's "foot long", though not for $5), the lady offered to BREAK it in half (as she obviously wasn't equipped with a knife). So...while the tables might not be clean and the service is ridiculously inefficient, I'm quite happy that I actually can get a coffee there at all.
Sepulturero Sepulturero 17:12 15.01.2015

Re: Ziveo Dufry

nim_opet
I mean - before Dufry the option, especially for early morning flights...well, there was none. In 1999, I bought a sandwich off a cart (no idea why there was a cart, I think they might have been doing some renovation etc.); after asking for either some cutlery or if they could cut it in half (it was akin to subway's "foot long", though not for $5), the lady offered to BREAK it in half (as she obviously wasn't equipped with a knife). So...while the tables might not be clean and the service is ridiculously inefficient, I'm quite happy that I actually can get a coffee there at all.


Comparing 1999 en 2014 is like comparing frogs and grandmothers.
qqriq qqriq 19:27 15.01.2015

Re: Ziveo Dufry

Comparing 1999 en 2014 is like comparing frogs and grandmothers.



srdjan.pajic srdjan.pajic 20:06 15.01.2015

Chris

Quit bitching, and post the entire text here, if you don't mind. I hate clicking and following links around in the middle of reading. And my coffee break time is limited.

I dunno, I didn't notice dirty tables and messy serving trays at the establishment your story tells us about, only some grumpy waitresses, occasionally, like at 5am, or whenever the hell they open. And the price, too. But Jeez, it is a fucking airport, where else you'd get chance to be skinned alive?
cane cane 20:33 15.01.2015

Re: Chris

Why when his blogpost needs clicks?
G.Cross G.Cross 21:10 15.01.2015

Re: Chris

srdjan.pajic
Quit bitching, and post the entire text here, if you don't mind. I hate clicking and following links around in the middle of reading. And my coffee break time is limited.

I dunno, I didn't notice dirty tables and messy serving trays at the establishment your story tells us about, only some grumpy waitresses, occasionally, like at 5am, or whenever the hell they open. And the price, too. But Jeez, it is a fucking airport, where else you'd get chance to be skinned alive?



Slazem se, ne znam zasto mu ovo dozvoljavaju (ako uopste postoji jos neko ko se brine o ovom mestu);
Ovo nije Blog, ovo je teaser.

I jos ima VIP titulu.
VIP Teaser?

srdjan.pajic srdjan.pajic 21:24 15.01.2015

Re: Chris

G.Cross
srdjan.pajic
Quit bitching, and post the entire text here, if you don't mind. I hate clicking and following links around in the middle of reading. And my coffee break time is limited.

I dunno, I didn't notice dirty tables and messy serving trays at the establishment your story tells us about, only some grumpy waitresses, occasionally, like at 5am, or whenever the hell they open. And the price, too. But Jeez, it is a fucking airport, where else you'd get chance to be skinned alive?



Slazem se, ne znam zasto mu ovo dozvoljavaju (ako uopste postoji jos neko ko se brine o ovom mestu);
Ovo nije Blog, ovo je teaser.

I jos ima VIP titulu.
VIP Teaser?



Khm, da ne bude zabune, mislim da je blog odličan, i ja baš volim Chrisove uratke, zanimljivo mi je da čujem kako Amerikanac gleda na Srbiju, konkretno na običan život koji tamo živi. I kako naši ljudi reaguju na to. Uostalom, on je na neki način moj mirror image.

Samo me mrzi da klikćem da bih pročitao tekst do kraja. Ali daleko od toga da bih zato predložio da ga skrate za VIP glavu, čak i kad bih imao kome da predložim.


gedza.73 gedza.73 21:46 15.01.2015

Re: Chris

srdjan.pajic
And my coffee break time is limited.


nsarski nsarski 02:02 16.01.2015

Re: Chris

Ali daleko od toga da bih zato predložio da ga skrate za VIP glavu, čak i kad bih imao kome da predložim.


My, how generous!

Man, you are fucked big time. If this is what life in Colorado does to you, move to Mozambique or something. They will understand you over there.
srdjan.pajic srdjan.pajic 05:43 16.01.2015

Re: Chris

nsarski
Ali daleko od toga da bih zato predložio da ga skrate za VIP glavu, čak i kad bih imao kome da predložim.


My, how generous!

Man, you are fucked big time. If this is what life in Colorado does to you, move to Mozambique or something. They will understand you over there.


Not sure what's your problem exactly, Šarski. Maybe you didn't understand my comment, perhaps I wasn't clear. Chris was nearly lynched on his blog few times for his views on various aspects of living in Serbia, his VIP status was questioned several times over this or that, few times he was openly asked to move back to his Iowa village, in a good fascist manner that is well adopted among regular bloggers here. My last comment was pretty light reaction to G Cross's mentioning of his VIP status again, and me being lazy to follow the links in the text in order to finish the reading.

I hope you understand now, a sad, skokni ti u taj Mozambik, ako ti nije suviše mrsko, i pošalji razglednicu.
looping looping 12:38 16.01.2015

Re: Chris

G.Cross
srdjan.pajic
Quit bitching, and post the entire text here, if you don't mind. I hate clicking and following links around in the middle of reading. And my coffee break time is limited.

I dunno, I didn't notice dirty tables and messy serving trays at the establishment your story tells us about, only some grumpy waitresses, occasionally, like at 5am, or whenever the hell they open. And the price, too. But Jeez, it is a fucking airport, where else you'd get chance to be skinned alive?



Slazem se, ne znam zasto mu ovo dozvoljavaju (ako uopste postoji jos neko ko se brine o ovom mestu);
Ovo nije Blog, ovo je teaser.

I jos ima VIP titulu.
VIP Teaser?


Bilo bi zanimljivo kada bi na B92 blogu svaki bloger izbacio ovakav teaser i link ka celom blogu.
cane cane 20:32 15.01.2015

cemu komentari

Ovde?

rade.radumilo rade.radumilo 20:33 15.01.2015

Other experiences...

Monastir Airport has an establishment that works all night. If you are lucky enough to get stranded there for several hours by JAT, than you will notice that it has quite nice coffee, and sandwiches etc. and works 24x7. But you will also notice that you have spent your last Tunisian dinars, just before going through passport control, and that in this facility exchange rate follows some mysterious laws of planetary alignment...
cane cane 20:38 15.01.2015

Re: Other experiences...

Rade, dobro, znamo da znas engleski, a i da si bio u tunisu.

Nekoliko puta.

cane cane 10:29 16.01.2015

and now something completely different.

ne, ovo nije srbija devedesettrece...




link posto image ocigledno ne radi... (a nije https...)
srdjan.pajic srdjan.pajic 16:29 16.01.2015

Re: Chris

looping

Bilo bi zanimljivo kada bi na B92 blogu svaki bloger izbacio ovakav teaser i link ka celom blogu.


Načisto bismo propali. Misliš da je ovakvo ponašanje zarazno?

U pravu si, stvarno nije u redu, ima ovde blogera koji objavljuju u novinama, ali ceo svoj tekst vredno cut and paste-uju na blogu, samo da ne bi neko bio uskraćen za užitak čitanja njihovih dubokih misli, ideja, analiza, nešto slabijih sinteza. A Kris nam ga ovako zavlači, već nekoliko blogova unazad, otprilike otkad su ga terali da kupi prnje i nosi se u tu njegovu Ajovu.

G.Cross G.Cross 16:41 16.01.2015

Re: Chris

A Kris nam ga ovako zavlači, već nekoliko blogova unazad, otprilike otkad su ga terali da kupi prnje i nosi se u tu njegovu Ajovu.



Je si li bas , onako, apsolutno siguran da je zato?
srdjan.pajic srdjan.pajic 17:08 16.01.2015

Re: Chris

G.Cross
A Kris nam ga ovako zavlači, već nekoliko blogova unazad, otprilike otkad su ga terali da kupi prnje i nosi se u tu njegovu Ajovu.


Je si li bas , onako, apsolutno siguran da je zato?


Meni se tako čini. Ovo mesto je postalo prilično neprijatno, i možda čovek stvarno hoće da pokupi prnje, a nas koji smo čitali njegove blogove lagano preusmeri tamo gde možemo to da nastavimo. A moguće je, naravno, i da grešim, ne u vezi sa ovim oko neprijatnosti, nego oko Krisovih namera.

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