good morning I'm in Jakarta and it's a
beautiful day outside it's probably
going to be hot probably humid and I
have about a day so it's about Wow 8:15
I'm up a little bit earlier today
because of jet lag and I leave my flight
out is just after midnight tonight so
there's a lot to get done in a short
space of time now I don't know all the
details of my agenda today I am a
passenger in this experience both
literally a passenger in the car and
figuratively a passenger in that I don't
make decisions I don't know what's going
on I am happy this way do you know I
think first that we're gonna head out to
a training school and I think we're
gonna swing by the Brewster competition
a little bit later on and I know that I
have an events afternoon beyond that
the details of that I don't know and
this stuff I want to see here this stuff
I want to understand this is a really
interesting market for coffee there's
been a huge boom in coffee here
but it seems to be shifting and and
doing things here that I don't see
anywhere else and that's not just
specialty that's the coffee market as a
whole so hopefully I get a chance to
look at some of the more interesting
stuff trend-wise going on in jakarta
right now get myself a little Nestle
Dolce Gusto should we make coffee
with that it's probably a bad idea right
it's a bad idea
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and I'll just wait oh wait we'll get
coffee later
I'll just buy this way so I'm in the
ABCD coffee school and Wow I'm jealous
they have so much cool stuff here
I'm in the kind of espresso training
mystery kind of room here but there's
the kind of brewing stuff behind me they
have an auditorium here for coffee
training and that's amazing and they
have a beautiful cupping space too
I really liked that they've kind of
repurposed the things you wince ice
cream scoops with into things that you
can rinse cupping spoons with I want to
steal that I think that's brilliant
look at a few Roasters there and I got
some delicious espresso to start my day
with as well so overall super
interesting start to the day for a
school like this to exist it sub says
there's a fantastic desire for coffee
and coffee knowledge here which is very
inspiring you know London's a big city
but I can't imagine a school like this
there I don't know what that means but
it's definitely interesting I'm being
well looked after
it's a really lovely crew here and yeah
I'm very glad we came by to have a look
this place is amazing
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so right now I am luxuriating backstage
in a VIP room I am living the dream
before the event I mean like this calm
quiet space I've got a big sofa it's
nice like I'm not very good at talking
to people before I give a talk I'm
inherently an introvert let's not talk
about that now so today has been a good
day so far
so after ABCD we we went and we swung by
the competition
so right now Brewers Cup and the British
champs are going on we saw a little bit
of that but we couldn't stay too long I
met some lovely people we took some
pictures there were a little kind of
trade show me stuff going on there as
well but I just didn't get a chance to
see much and then we came across got
some quick lunch which was delicious and
now we're at the venue which is a big
venue it's kind of an art gallery here
and we have one big room inside the
ticket for this event was out of control
right they did a beautiful little invite
with like a VIP pass that gave you
access to the gallery here and there's a
collection of work by an artist called
Hendra that was pretty great I got a
chance to go and look at that sort of
stuff
so right now I relax it's calm then I'm
gonna talk there's gonna be I think some
some pretty cool stuff happening I like
a little bit of an event type thing now
one of the things that I really wanted
to do on this trip was kind of taste
what trends are right now so between the
Bristol champs and lunch we stopped off
for like a quick coffee specialty has a
harder time I think growing in this
market because it's inherently quite
expensive and so more and more people
are kind of looking at trying to do a
better version of something more
accessible so we stopped by one space
and then this was good actually like I
don't drink a lot of milk I don't drink
a lot of sugar but but I totally get how
that's an enjoyable thing for people and
if that starts people drinking coffee it
starts them down a journey where they're
gonna keep drinking good coffee or drink
better and better coffee there
kind of into that apparently loads
people here have it delivered via one of
the services where people on like mopeds
or scooters will just pick it up for you
bring it to wherever you are because
traffic is bad here so you're not going
to get in a car and drive to a cafe
because that'll be like the two hours of
your life you just open an app get
someone to pick it up for you and have
it brought to you and it's an ice to
drink most of the time because it's
really hot here so that that's
definitely interesting as a trend that
the delivery coffee the the kind of copy
sousou I think is what what the count
drink is commonly called which is just
like milky coffee between now and and
just hang out in this greenroom and
getting on a plane at about midnight I'm
not sure how much more I'm gonna see but
maybe maybe there'll be a moment to see
one more thing
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you knowit's just decadent this is not a
good way to start a conversation but you
know it's decadent decadent is having a
hotel room that you get to check out of
at 9:30 at night that means you can take
a shower before your two long-haul
flights from Jakarta back to London this
this is a beautiful thing I have just
taken a glorious shower it's a hot today
it's a great day but it was a hot busy
day just wash the day off I'm going home
and today was a busy day it was a great
day the event went really well I
couldn't really film it because again I
was talking at it but it was it was
great Lizzy came there were some great
questions I got to meet a ton of people
after winter that was great and then it
was dinner
doesn't really feel appropriate to you
know bring out a big ridiculous camera
hat this remains one of the most
interesting cities to me I desperately
want to come back and spend time here
just to understand it I'm kind of glad
that today was Saturday this is a
sitting with notoriously bad traffic and
today was kind of breezy everywhere
actually it was kind of a pleasure
riding around if you like these little
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diary stories let me know I've got more
travel coming up I'm going to New York
in mid-march there like that eight nine
ten I'm in New York after that I'll be
in Saudi Arabia I'm just gonna be
intense
after that I'm coming to Portland but
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show you what can I share with you I
want to say thank you so much for
watching and I hope you have a great day