Wrong on all counts!

Australia is the place to get good coffee. We've had cup after cup of steaming strong black coffee no matter where we've been.

There are lots of individual coffee shops around and so no need to go into one of the coffee chains that you find everywhere these days.

But, knowing the red cups were out, and Christmas blend was in, we thought it would be somewhat surreal to enjoy a cup in the hot sunshine, in front of Melbourne's Christmas tree.

Reader, we only drank a third of it. I assume they were having an off day.