Mystery Cafè

#coffeeneuring2026 No. 2 10.3km round-trip Beautiful autumn Sunday afternoon, bright skies, warm, but not too warm, so out for a little ride to a new park along the Tiber. The Parco Marconi used to be a total tip 20 or so years ago when I sometimes had to walk my dog down here. Used needles, human crap and crap, lots of litter of all sorts of broken stuff, from fridges to bicycles. Anyway, it is just one example of the buckets of money spent by the city for last year's Jubilee and it is now a very pleasant space, with chairs for the sun worshippers, slides and swings for the kiddies, lots of neat green space, and a bar. I had a coffee and a bun and sat a while in the sunshine enjoying a rather good busker with an electric piano and people watching. It was only a moment ago, when I got home, that I realised both that I had not taken a photograph of the establishment and that there was no information in any of the mapping apps I have. I mean, Open Street Map knows that there is a cafè…