This is my first ever enty in this community (which is extremely weird, since I live off of coffee and probably drink it more than I should). That being said, nice to meet everyone here ✨
It’s been a while since I posted Hive. With moving to a new country, trying to find a place to live, getting a new job, adapting to a new place and trying to squeeze living my life into a tight schedule, it was a bit of a task to force myself to write anything.
Now that I’ve settled down a bit, I finally have the energy and mental capacity to write again.
Unfortunately for me and my wallet, I always end up being a victim to the "Airport Coffee" scam. Now I don't know what it is exactly, my very early flights that I keep choosing or just boredom you inevitably face when you have to wait to board a plane for a couple of hours. Alas, this time was not an exception, and in my quest to find a place to get some water I found an airport cafe and ended up getting coffee as well.
Now, I believe there's one thing that everyone universally agrees on is that airport coffee is mediocre at best: very lazy design and not the best flavour, that definitely do not justify the price. But I believe this Costa coffee experience has been by far the worst airport coffee experience I've ever had.
The funny thing is in the entirety of Tbilisi I haven't seen a single Costa, yet for some reason there was in the airport, which was already kind of weird. But the interior didn't look bad, so I decided to give it a go. A very cute, tidy design, with modern elements to it — it checked all the boxes of a generic trendy cafe.
The cup designs weren't bad either: the first Christmas design I saw in this city so far. I kind of missed when cafes did this. For some reason, in Tbilisi it isn't a very common concept. At least for now, it might change with December coming.
So all these variables taken into consideration, I had the audacity to think that I would be greeted with a nice, almost $10 (!) coffee. (For reference, at a regular cafe in Tbilisi the average price for coffee is about $3).
I don't think anyone will be surprised to learn that the coffee was...horrible. I wasn't able to finish it. Not only that, it made me feel slightly sick as well. Thankfully I got better right before the flight, drinking water definitely helped.
Moral of the story: if you're anything like me — try your hardest to avoid airport coffee. It's never good, it's ridiculously overpriced, it in fact doesn't help you wake up or stay awake. (Hopefully, I will remember this on my flight back, wish me luck).