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Fiesta del Acabe del Café en Maricao

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This weekend was the 37th Annual Fiesta del Acabe del Café or the Festival of the Coffee ‘End’ (Harvest) in Maricao, PR and our friends Ben and Missy invited us to go with them there on Sunday.

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Britton and I have been to quite a few festivals around the island, but this one was by far the biggest. There were lots of venders of all sorts, live music and nice people.

Coffee lady
One of the coffee vender displays

There was also lots and lot of Puerto Rican coffee. We love the coffee here. In the mountainous areas where it is slightly cooler like in Maricao, coffee grows extremely well and with a great flavor. You won’t see Starbucks any time soon here! This stuff is the real, local deal!

Coffee berries
Coffee berries in various states of ripeness

We walked around and checked out most of the booths and had a little of the carnival style food and drink.

With friends at coffee fest
Enjoying some chicken pinchos and fresh-squeezed Maricao orange juice with our friends

Coffee plants
An agricultural display showing various coffee varieties

As we were walking around we even stopped to enjoy an impromptu group of drummers, singing and swaying to the beats. It was pretty cool.

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Shipload of Coffee from Puerto Rico and Colombia

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The other day we came home to a pretty big package at our doorstep. When we opened it we were pleasantly surprised to see that Diosdado, the man we had met in Puerto Rico, had sent us a BUNCH of coffee and other things like chocolate and he even made us picture with frame that he took of us when we was showing us around Puerto Rico.

I put it all on the kitchen table and was amazed at how much stuff there was! He is such a nice man, I can’t believe how lucky we were to have sat next to him on our flight from Miami to Puerto Rico. He recently went on a trip to Colombia and so packed a bunch of Colombian coffee as well. Britton and I don’t usually drink coffee at home. I think Britton drinks it at work, but I only drink it if someone offers it to me, so pretty rarely really. So this shipload of coffee from Colombia and Puerto Rico will probably last us a good long time.

table-full-of-coffee

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