If anyone is looking for decaf in Italy, rest assured. My friends drink only decaf at night and every place we ate on a recent trip offered brewed decaf. The days of that powdered instant stuff are long gone, at least in Italy..

Remember Kaffee Hag is pronounced 'Café Hark' - you find in every coffee shop, bar and restaurant in Germany.

good point quokka, we have been twice in Berlin and each time there were no water heating devices or cups in the bedrooms.

It's lucky that we anticipated that, and took our own little single cup water heater and our own cups too. We still got our Douwe Egberts de-caf fix!

Joe