After three hours by bus in the Colombian Cordillera with a driver inside foot, outpacing cars, trucks and other obstacles impeding his route. Safe, we arrive in Ibague. Rendezvous with Rafael same time, same place at the coffee kiosk terminal bus. He joins us, frank embrace. A few minutes later we're in his apartment where we see enthroned on the coffee table with chrome gleaming machine. Rafael proudly explains that he just brought this machine to roast coffee in Minneapolis and has not yet had time to try it. We ask our business and we're off to a restaurant 100 "% Carne. Everyone says what he has lived the last ten days. Ana-Lucia's marriage with his friends whom we had been to a concert, Rafael and his trip to Minneapolis us our kidnapping by Colombian Santa Rosa. Back at the apartment, I asked Rafael if he did not want to test his new toy, smile. He takes the baby in his arms and carries no delay in the kitchen. It takes a good kilo of green coffee from his store, leafing through the manual quickly as we abandon our mutual English level is too low, to explore for ourselves the possibilities of the machine. The first roasting which takes a good twenty minutes is a complete foirade despite 
sweet smell that emanated from the coffee machine is burned. Rafael is preparing a new dose of coffee while the machine cools. It then modifies some curves of temperature and time and we repeat the operation. This time the coffee will be barely browned. New dose, this time to Rafael looks more like the result, but apparently not enough. It is two o'clock in the morning and we all rise tomorrow around half past six. Rafael and Ana-Lucia had more than three hours away to join the family of Madame, for our part, we must take a bus to Bogotá where we need to find Olga before noon. New roasting, it is still not satisfied. Laetitia replace me with a bit of Rafael while I relax on the internet playing poker. I have time to play for an hour and return that Rafael is still not happy with the result. We stay with him until 5 am. When he finally turned to us and said that he had finally found the right setting and it will now be able to roast a selection of the best two bars he noted last week during a catation that pitted more than fifteen different cafes. Still half an hour and we go to bed tired but with the pride of work well done, especially Rafael! I've lied a little in the way about the sleepless night, but it was not far. We sleep just half past one ET here we are again in the kitchen to grind the coffee and bag. Of course Rafael is preparing its espresso machine for final sanction. Verdict, this coffee is 100% pure, 100% fuerte, 100% black and wakes us up therefore 300% and we need it! 
Adios y Muchas gracias Rafael y Ana Lucia, our vamos Bogotá. 
sweet smell that emanated from the coffee machine is burned. Rafael is preparing a new dose of coffee while the machine cools. It then modifies some curves of temperature and time and we repeat the operation. This time the coffee will be barely browned. New dose, this time to Rafael looks more like the result, but apparently not enough. It is two o'clock in the morning and we all rise tomorrow around half past six. Rafael and Ana-Lucia had more than three hours away to join the family of Madame, for our part, we must take a bus to Bogotá where we need to find Olga before noon. New roasting, it is still not satisfied. Laetitia replace me with a bit of Rafael while I relax on the internet playing poker. I have time to play for an hour and return that Rafael is still not happy with the result. We stay with him until 5 am. When he finally turned to us and said that he had finally found the right setting and it will now be able to roast a selection of the best two bars he noted last week during a catation that pitted more than fifteen different cafes. Still half an hour and we go to bed tired but with the pride of work well done, especially Rafael! I've lied a little in the way about the sleepless night, but it was not far. We sleep just half past one ET here we are again in the kitchen to grind the coffee and bag. Of course Rafael is preparing its espresso machine for final sanction. Verdict, this coffee is 100% pure, 100% fuerte, 100% black and wakes us up therefore 300% and we need it! 
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