Italian coffee

"Zere is a technical difficulty" said one of the Italian guests at breakfast. The difficulty was that they'd never seen a cafetiere before and didn't know that they had to push the little strainer down before the coffee would come out.

National stereotyping may be dangerous, but is sometimes helpful when planning for breakfast. For example I sort of knew that the Swiss guests would be unlikely to want a fry up, and this turned out to be correct.

And if we have workmen staying we can be pretty sure that they won't want muesli!