{"id":3237,"date":"2010-08-09T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T11:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2010-08-09T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T11:20:10","slug":"the-most-expensive-cup-of-coffee-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"The most expensive cup of coffee in the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2008, I did a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1241\"> blog posting<\/a> about my experience of ordering a cup of coffee in a London hotel that cost a staggering \u00a35.20. I speculated about whether this was the most expensive cup of coffee in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in April 2010, I did a further <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2215\">blog posting<\/a> about a cup of coffee that cost me even more: \u00a35.50. This was at Chengdu Airport in China.<\/p>\n<p>Well, my friends, I can now announce a new record which simply smashes the old one. I&#8217;ve just returned from a break in the Danish capital of Copenhagen where everyone speaks English and is incredibly polite and helpful but everything is mindblowingly expensive.<\/p>\n<p>In an excellent museum called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glyptoteket.dk\/?frames=yes&amp;language=en\">Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek<\/a>, there is a delightful cafe overlooking a bright covered courtyard and here I spent 60 Danish kroner for a cup of cappuccino. That is an utterly incredible \u00a37.<\/p>\n<p>Can you beat that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In December 2008, I did a blog posting about my experience of ordering a cup of coffee in a London hotel that cost a staggering \u00a35.20. I speculated about whether this was the most expensive cup of coffee in the world. Then, in April 2010, I did a further blog posting about a cup of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3252,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}