Close to 15 years ago, when we were visiting Susanna in the UK when she was studying at Exeter University, as we walked down the High Street, Annikki felt like having a cup of coffee. We walked into a rather nice coffee parlour which also sold fresh ground coffee.
She smelt a delicious aroma and ordered a cup of coffee, which, to me, seemed to be priced at an astronomical figure.
One sip and Annikki was in heaven. She exclaimed loudly that this was the finest coffee she had ever tasted. I could not know as I had given up coffee drinking about 8 years earlier.
So I asked her to buy a kilo or two to take back to Finland.
Annikki asked the price and I was dumbstruck by the figure quoted. It was priced almost as much as a pot of GOLD!!
It was a coffee called as the "Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee".
The shopkeeper explained that they managed to get only a few kgs in a year as the Japanese usually buy up the entire crop.
A couple of days ago, when I had a friend from India visiting us, I took him to the main market and found a shop which sold tea and fresh ground coffee. I asked whether they had Blue Mountain Coffee . They had - just 150 gms and at THE price.
I went out early this morning to buy Annikki all that was available in Oulu as her birthday present!
Our grandchildren left for England yesterday, but they dropped by to say goodbye to their grandmother and me. Here are a couple of shots of Annikki with Daniel and Samuel in the Kampitie garden yesterday.
Happy birthday to my love of the last 42 years.
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