We’ve Bean Two!

Hello readers.
This entry is a little late since it focusses on our last few days in Cairns back in October, and it’s now December. So here goes.
Our last full day in Queensland was dedicated to . . . . . . . . . . coffee! We had decided to go and visit a coffee museum some 50km inland from Cairns. So once again we traversed the winding and mountainous roads from the coast and headed to the hinterland.
Coffeeworks was our destination. A museum dedicated to the art of coffee. It also specialised in chocolate so there was interest for all. After paying a reasonable entry fee we were in and sampling all that was on offer. Never before had I been to a place that celebrated the cocoa and coffee bean together. It was bliss and, surprisingly, didn’t wear thin. The novelty didn’t get tiring (and why would it?), and got very interesting when the beans were combined. Chocolate coated coffee beans were superb, as was coffee infused with chocolate. The mad scientists in this place would make great friends but unfortunately I didn’t come across any. They were probably kept underground and were the byproduct of human and coffee plant DNA trials.
Once we had had our fill of caffeine and cocoa based products we visited the gift shop. This was a kooky little experience due to the myriad of quirky objects they had for sale (there seemed to be quite a few items to buy that had me in them), and if you were on a caffeine / cocoa based high there would be plenty to thrash your credit card with. Luckily we didn’t succumb to this temptation and left the establishment with a respectable amount of purchases.
On the way back to Cairns we stopped at a coffee plantation for lunch, and an ice-cream shop for dessert.
All-in-all it was a jolly fine day.

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