Our Journey to Starbucks
Yesterday, we had a spare afternoon so decided to take our books and walk to Starbucks. We have 3 Starbucks in Sheffield and this one is our favourite. We can see lots of Mosaic stuff happening there! It’s right in the middle of a lovely park and museum, the Children’s Hospital and the university. This used to be my walk into university. We thought we’d take photos so you could share in our journey! It’s about a 20 minute walk……
Our little house (the one with the green paint)
Our little street - Cromwell Street (with the hills in the background)
The top of our street looking into Walkley, the part of Sheffield where we live (it’s like a little village)
The view as we walk down the road
Walking past one park……..
…through another one (brilliant place for playing games/sitting on a blanket in the Summer)
The Children’s hospital
Our destination! We made it!
Sam and his huge hot chocolate (I like the guy laughing in the background!)
Me and my Caramel Machiatto (anyone had one of those?! It’s fantastic!)
On the way home
Hope you enjoyed your tour and aren’t too tired!
January 22nd, 2006 at 6:56 pm
rachel, this is a lovely tour. like a little vacation. i could nearly taste the caramel macchiato. mmmmh… it looks awesome over there in sheffield.
January 22nd, 2006 at 9:38 pm
A children’s hospital on the way to starbucks….it is truly calling us!!!! Lovely photos! Thanks for the tour!
January 22nd, 2006 at 11:50 pm
The childrens hospital is next door to Starbucks!
January 23rd, 2006 at 1:39 am
okay…you’ve already sold it…stop rubbing it in now.
Tomorrow we’ll take pictures of our walk to starbucks so you can see our little tour too.
January 23rd, 2006 at 4:17 am
I like these photo tours… it makes us all more connected to see the surroundings of our cities.
Is Sam memorizing his Romans 8:1-17? Bug him on that for me. Hope you guys have a good day and week. I pray this is a great week of progress for Mosaic Sheffield.
I’d appreciate any insights you guys have as I begin my current journey.
take care…
January 23rd, 2006 at 5:11 am
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January 23rd, 2006 at 6:43 am
Almost inspires me to take pictures of MY walk to Starbucks! Can’t hold a candle to your beautiful stroll… perhaps I’ll join you one day!!!
January 23rd, 2006 at 1:56 pm
You’re trying to break my heart by showing me the lovely place you live, aren’t you? Someday I’ll post pictures of my dirty little city. When I figure out how to post pictures, that is.
Yes, caramel macchiatos are good– despite the fact that they neither contain caramel nor are a macchiato within the definition of the term. My favorite is a decaf soy vanilla latte with ground nutmeg sprinkled in it. Nirvana in a cup.
-Mel
January 23rd, 2006 at 4:28 pm
man - i wanna’ go to a starbucks that looks like that! of course, the beauty of it for you guys is you get to walk there too — we don’t walk anywhere — pretty dodgy when you have to cross freeways to get to ANY-thing …
January 23rd, 2006 at 6:09 pm
how old do you think that starbucks building is? it looks really old!!!
January 23rd, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Rachel, what a wonderful little walk…thanks for sharing your “part of the world”! I’m always amazing at how unique each Starbucks can be, yet so KNOWN and comfortable, like coming to a good friends house….
January 23rd, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Rachel,
What a fun walk! Our walk to Starbucks wouldn’t be NEARLY as picturesque.
Wish I were there….
Debbie
January 23rd, 2006 at 8:36 pm
Deana - the building was converted from an old Victorian house. I watched them do it as I walked around university!
Eric - I think Starbucks are good at making each place like a little, unique home.
Mel - I don’t think our Starbucks does decaf soy anything. We’ll have to come to yours!
Debbie - It doesn’t matter how pictureque you think your journey is - it’s yours and I’d love to see it! And yours Staci!
January 23rd, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Loved the tour! I’m with Kris - we have no Starbucks within walking distance and none in the city that look like THAT! Not to mention the ones we do have are tiny and usually impossible to get a seat in. Maybe I’m dumb but I don’t understand the marketing strategy there. Ok I’m done.
Mel - As true as you are… we don’t really want to know when we are deceived… especially by Starbucks!
Case in point…. the persistant rumour that anything decaf at Starbucks actually has just as much caffiene as anything else at Starbucks.
Greg
January 24th, 2006 at 3:44 am
sweetness.
January 24th, 2006 at 5:41 am
posted the pictures from my journey today.
January 24th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
Rachel what a brilliant idea! You are in a lovely place! Thanks so much for the tour. Do another! Are there other cafe’s or restaurants converted from old houses like the Starbucks?
January 24th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
What? No decaf espresso? No soy milk? At least tell me they have the option of organic milk; after all you live in the EU, for goodness sake. Aren’t you guys all hyper about steroids and genetic modifications?
I thought those options came standard on a Starbucks. Hmm. Well, I do live in a college town part of my city…lots of artists and hippies and activists to cater to. Maybe that’s why. Although you apparently live near a University as well. So maybe not. Interesting.
-Mel
January 24th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
PS: By all means come to my Starbucks.
Or alternatively, come to the 100% Fair Trade and Organic independent coffee shop my church runs, where I moonlight. Cincinnati is a great little stop over between Sheffield and LA. 
-Mel
January 24th, 2006 at 6:05 pm
Rachel - Please forgive Mel for stereotyping all europeans as being “all hyper about steroids and genetic modifications”…. she’s american… all americans stereotype like that.
Mel - I would love to hear more about the cafe your church runs… any pics or website, etc?
Greg from Winnipeg
January 25th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Mel - I’d love to visit Cincinnati! And your cafe. We do have a lot of fairtrade stuff going on. And other coffee shops that have wider ‘options’ but not Starbucks! Would be great to see pics of what you’re doing and where you’re hanging out.
Greg- I’d like to visit Winipeg too! What’s it like?
January 25th, 2006 at 7:25 pm
Check out the cafe’s website here. Anyone in the area? Stop by and see me. I’m working Friday night. It’s a sight groovier than sitting at home.
When I was a student, I used to work in an extremely diverse office. We had it all: genders, ethnic backgrounds, religions, sexualities…you name it. At first we tiptoed around things…by the time I graduated and stopped working there, we made the most awful jokes to each other (but only about a minority that was present. If, say, no Catholics were around, then jokes about Catholics were off-limits). It was hi-lar-ious. It wouldn’t have worked, though, if anybody had had any doubts about how accepting and caring each of us were. Anyway, all of that to say that since then I have found sweeping judgements to be incredibly funny. I am now the Queen of the Sweeping Statement. All hail!
LOL I actually do prefer organic foods, but they are so much more expensive (at least in here in America) that I feel guilty buying them because I work with low-income families and people who live quite literally on the street, who I know would love to be able to afford even the chemically-treated-genetically-modified kind of food. My mother’s family was quite poor when she was a little girl; it breaks my heart to think of other little girls like her. Today while I was down at the food pantry my organization runs, a young woman brought in her two-year-old-daughter. She had an awful cough and a runny nose and looked so hungry. But she said “please” and “thank-you” when I handed her a sandwich and some cookies. I’m still trying to figure out what to do with this.
-Mel
January 25th, 2006 at 7:27 pm
Hmm. It would seem that the comment section of vox does not support the classic html a href= form of designating a link. Sadness. I feel sheepish. Try visiting this: http://www.rohsstreetcafe.com
-Mel
January 25th, 2006 at 7:50 pm
Rachel…. you ask a very dangerous question… Others have asked and regretted it deeply as I launched into lengthy diatribes on what “The Peg” is like. I’m one of those types who is intensely prideful/passionate about the city they live in. Kind of like how Erwin or Alex feel about LA. Which is a nice city… doesn’t hold a candle to my Winnipeg, though.
On the surface it may not be much to look at… you have to live here for awhile to appreciate it.
The most common factoids I like to spew:
- Bob Hope played his first game of golf in Winnipeg.
- Winnipeg is a hotbed for music: The Guess Who, BTO, Chantal Kreviazuk, Crash Test Dummies, Neil Young, too many more to mention. Randy Bachman, formerly of The Guess Who and BTO, owns a house two blocks away from mine.
- Most restaurants per capita of any North American city. The actor John Candy was known to regularly have food couriered to him at film sets all over the world from a restaurant not far from my house.
- The 911 emergency call system was invented in Winnipeg.
- Coldest city in the world. (Coldest median temperature of any city with a population over 500,000).
- One hour drive to Grand Beach (Often rated one of the top ten beaches in North America).
To understand a little more of the spiritual climate in Winnipeg… and if you’re extremely bored… you could peruse a post I did in the past:
http://prismhead.blogspot.com/2005/06/peg.html#comments
Also a recent comment on Octavio’s xanga blog. (scroll to the bottom - I’m the second last comment)
http://www.xanga.com/ocmartinez/419347298/there-is-no-9-to-5your-life-from-8-am-to-7-pm.html
These posts just scratch the surface of what’s going on here. I can be a bit like the over enthusiastic neighbours who excitedly show the proverbial 2 hour slideshow that they think is amazing but everybody else is bored to tears.
Greg
January 27th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
Hey Rach,
I just had to say how wonderful your post was, although it does make me really home-sick for Sheffield, even though it’s not really home anymore! I’m so excited about what God is doing with Mosaic, and I can’t wait to hear more.
I really hope I can see you guys soon, it’s been too long! Time for another committee wedding, but I don’t know who’s turn it is next
Love and blessings, Em xxx
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