Hey, coffee fellas, how are you? In this peaceful sunday morning I am having my morning coffee while I am thinking about my last week’s experience.
As I hbe mentioned in my latest post, I and my wife had a wedding anniversary so we decided to visit a pretty amazing hotel. And what the experience this was. We have been to many five star hotels in this spa city - Velingrad, but this one needs to be in another league.
The bane of the place is Kashmir Wellness and Spa and its theme is all about the Kashmir goats, Kashmir fabric and everything related.
And the room… The room was the perfect place to enjoy a cup of freshly brewed AeroPress coffee. Of course, this time the coffee gear was traveling with is, as usual. A cup of coffee in the copmany of some goat portraits…
It was as soon as we checked in when the time for the first coffee came. I was bringing with us “The naughty dog” Ethipoian specialty coffee, which promised to be light and fruity in its flavors.
In no time I and my wife had 2 cups of liquid pleasure. Would you like to have a cup of warm coffee in this atmosphere? The coziness was amazing and the dim lights in the room were really relaxing and prepared us for the spa experience.
Now, about the hotel’s coffee experience… the next morning we dressed up and headed towards the restaurant for a breakfast. Pashmina welcomed us with another goat inspired interior. I have to mention, that all the finishing materials in the hotel were feeling expensive and posh.
To be honest, I was expecting to see one of these machines which make coffee… bean-to-cup, but for my surprise there wasn’t one. Of course, there was coffee with the breakfast, but it was on demand, ordered to the waiters. I think this is a good decision, because sometimes people make a drink just because there is such a coffee machine offering them mediocre coffee.
So, of course, like a real coffee lover I decided to give this coffee a try. After all, if it is on demand, it could be something better!
Yuck… it wasn’t… maybe the only good thing about this coffee was the cup, which had this interesting spotter pattern on it. Coffee was auite dark roasted and not extracted properly. It really lacked any character amd body. I guess they had one of these bean-to-cup machines, but it was just in the kitchen area, or some personnel room.
I couldn’t really wait to go back to my room and enjoy a cup of specialty coffee on the terrace.
And the coffee is ready…
One of the best things aboit this hotel was its location. Unlike most of the other hotels in Velingrad, this one is located in the forest and when you go outside on the terrace it is just you and the songs of the birds. Century old pine trees wrap the whole hotel and this seems like the perfect place to relax.
We were quite lucky with the weather too. I don’t have words to express the real peacefullness about this moment. Fine coffee, nature, bird songs… nothing more that I really needed. And it was sunny all of the time just until we started to pack our baggage for leaving. We spent a lot of time having walks in the forest and leisuring in the outside hot springs in the spa area.
Well, that is all for today. See you really soon!
Will you enjoy spending a weekend like this?
Bye!