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I have a Sunday morning ritual where I go to my favorite coffee shop and get a cup of coffee and one of their scones (perhaps the best scones ever?). And I go outside to their delectable little patio and read a book for a few hours under a canopy of orange trees and with dogs and children running about playing. (Well, the children run and the dogs are on their leashes. But they all still manage to play together, nonetheless!)

It's an escape, though. And it reinvigorates me for the week ahead.

I hear ya. I'm all about the beer-in-travel-mug for a walk across the neighborhood....

haha. this reminds me of college. beer (or a mixed liquor drink) in a coffee mug to "pre-game" in the dining hall. ah, youth.

Nothing like a beer and some grass in Central Park!

I'm with you!

Oooohh, laetitiae has the right idea. With a 5 month old at home, I long for those relaxing Sunday mornings as I am a coffee, paper and scone gal myself.
Luckily, being in Northern California we have a backyard that we often escape to once baby is down for a nap...with wineglasses in hand of course.

i once took a travel mug full of wine to a free open-air showing of Goonies in our city square. it was so fun! maybe we'll have to whip out the travel mugs tonight for our after dinner walk around town...

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I remember seeing an official sign in the UK once in a park that said (I'm paraphrasing), "you can drink alcohol in this park as long as a policeman doesn't tell you to stop" I thought that was very sensible. The implication being, if you act civilized, no one is going to object.

poor guys - you need to hide your glass of wine or booze if you go to the park?! i'd definitely hate that! luckily, there's no such legislation in germany - so once it's nice and warm outside the parks in berlin are full of people having a bottle of beer or a glass of wine before, with or after dinner... 95% of all people behave just nice and friendly, no problems with drunk people harassing others.

My favorite drink in the park experience is the 1/2 cup of room temp coffee I had left on the table earlier that day (in it's "to-go" cup & lid from the coffee shop). I just added ice, hazelnut liqueur, & a dash of milk. I then walked over to the park to watch a Dirty Dancing, the movie they were showing that night for Movies in the Park.

our neighbour regularly walks down the street to the park with a full wine glass in hand - i think it's fantastic! i'm not sure i could pull it off, but i think it's great

We'd get togo coffee's and bring nips of bailey's and jameson to spike them while we'd wait for red sox tickets in line. We figured we were just keeping with good old boston irish tradition :)

As far as drinking outside... nothing could be finer than having a swig of brandy from a flask on a ski lift. (ugh, did i just catch myself wishing for snow and winter?!)

btw... cute shoes in the picture.

Charlotte - that's awesome!