A super dooper triple latte with extra cream

I am finally in the later stages of writing my dissertation, and came accross this which I thought I'd share with you. It's actually my translation into English of a Spanish version of a Frenchman's text in English- very European if you ask me!!!

Anyway, it's a quote from George Steiner's "An idea of Europe", in which the learned writer explains the essence of Europe.

"From the favourite haunt of Pessoa in Lisbon, to the coffee houses of Odessa, where Isaak Babel’s gangsters would hang out; From the cafés of Copenhagen, which Kierkegaard famously walked past, to the bars of Palermo. If we follow the map of the cafés, we find one of the essential ingredients of Europe. It is the ideal place for a date and for conspiracies, for intellectual debate or gossip, for the layabout, the poet or the physicist."

I think he has a point except that he says that we can't include the UK in this because a) We don't drink coffee, which is suppose is kind of true, and b) the pub does not fulfil the same role as a cafe, which I'd completely disagree with, because many a great plan has been debated over a pint...

I thought this was the ideal opportunity to recite the infamous tale of Winston Churchill, who after having a few drinks came across a female MP.

MP- Prime Minister! You're drunk!

WC- Ah yes. And you're ugly. The difference is, I shall be sober in the morning.