Mail house blues....

A miserable, dreary and drizzling  Sunday morning calls for a relaxing, chilled out  coffee experience  to help liven  up the day and at least make it feel a tad bit sunny! I definitely succeeded in the good coffee stakes, but maybe not the best venue choice for a relaxing coffee on the day of rest. 

With  Darby still  away I thought I could  travel a distance for my cappuccino today.. The issue is always on the location,  I need to work on those decision making skills, (ill add that to my goal list for the year!) ... there are many places that are on the peripheral of the city,  that I would like to try.. today I just took a lucky dip and picked The Mailing Room in Canterbury... I have read great things about this cafe so I'm super excited..

 Canterbury is not the kind of suburb Id  visit very often, maybe once every couple of years.. I do like Mailing Rd, but I do feel very out of place and rather ... round peg in square hole, that kind of thing!  The Mailing Room is easy to find as it is on the corner of the street and in the old converted post office. It is a rather grand building and more elegant than the modern, exposed brick and industrial places that seem to be the flavour of the day at the moment.  I arrive and the place is in a state of chaos, with frenzied waitresses  running around, I manage to hail one and put my order in quick ... the high ceilings bounce  the loud Sunday noise around and I feel my heart beat start to quicken and my blood pressure start to rise (and not in a good way).I manage to get a table which is in the middle of the room and I feel very exposed sittng there on my own.  The place  is filled to the brim with families,young couples and sensible people just getting take away coffees and bolting! 

I realise once I'm seated that I have walked in just after  someone has spilled coffee all over the floor and the wait staff are  frantically mopping it up, so the service is a little bit slapstick (which I don't blame them) .

 I'm feeling very uncomfortable here, the hectic pace  and intense noise seem to be heightened by the big space the cafe occupies. Luckily my coffee arrives and I get some relief (Ahh) and I can see why it rates so highly, my cappuccino has a sweet honey flavour and is nice and hot , there is no bitterness at all and the rich coffee is a pleasure to drink. They use their own beans here from a mixture of different sources, I was tempted to get some, but decided against it as I just wanted to get out of the Sunday rush... I left quickly (Whats with the $4.10 price... just annoying, although not outrageous !Better start carrying 10 cent coins on me ) Next time I will venture here on a weekday and I imagine it  would be a lovely and relaxing place for coffee...

On the way home I'm still feeling unsatisfied , I haven't had the kind of  coffee experience I was looking for today(well the coffee was decent and the building was lovely) but just the amount of people and the blaring loudness of the Mailing Room has left me feeling stressed and anxious! I decide to drop by the Abbotsford Convent on the way home... big mistake....they had a monthly craft market and getting a park was like pulling teeth so I decided to go somewhere that could certainly not fail.. and I would get take away to enjoy in the serenity that is my Nissan Tiida!!!

 Seven Seeds http://www.sevenseeds.com.au/.... Ahhh just walking in I felt a whole lot better! I ordered my coffee and whilst waiting read the coffee beans menu! They all sounded amazing so I decided to buy 250g of  Costa Rican Monte Copey Honey, the description read: Rich body with notes of red cherries and a strong chocolate finish. Great for espresso and will match well with milk mmm, I cant wait to try it, now I just need to get a coffee filter so I can drink it!   It is busy here, but I don't feel that same sense of chaos, and the girl helping me chose the coffee was patient and knowledgable.

So not a complete waste of a child free morning!! The 2 coffees kept me going... I needed that caffeine through my veins as I took   Darby to his first (losing) footy match... he loveeddd it, so I think this will be a regular thing.. Lucky I live so close! Doesn't he look so cute in my old Lions hat.... its soo  Vintage!!!

Until next time xxxx.....

Isn't he adorable!! Waiting for the train to Etihad!