About 8 am (7 am our time) on the way to the factory. Garage and breakfast area with lever coffee machine and baristas. Vesuvius in the background. [URL=https://i.imgur.com/i9xF31M.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/i9xF31M.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Spending my first day at ACS. The storage and extra production equipment, is a equal sized area on the right of this one. [URL=https://i.imgur.com/EJiqCBh.jpg][IMG]https://i.imgur.com/EJiqCBh.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

@"Verion"#692 @"dfk41"#4 Congratulations!

@"DavecUK"#p28913 - you got to have mozzarella di bufala while you are there. I’m sure @"Paolo_Cortese"#90 can source some really good freshly made stuff. Just don’t have it with coffee. 🤣👌👍

My time in Naples

DavecUK

About 8 am (7 am our time) on the way to the factory. Garage and breakfast area with lever coffee machine and baristas. Vesuvius in the background.

Spending my first day at ACS. The storage and extra production equipment, is a equal sized area on the right of this one.

JahLaza

DavecUK great to see the story of these great machines, look forward to seeing more of the journey 👍

Verion

You might have seen my Minima being packed up today and picked up by DHL.

Some really machines in different states of being made.

DavecUK

Verion I saw two Minima machines wrapped up ready for collection today, and by 4pm they had gone. One was for David Kidd, the other for someone else I the UK I think, which must have been you.

Verion

DavecUK definitely me. Got my DHL import duty bill at 6pm.

Hopefully delivered by 24th October but fingers crossed it’s earlier.

dfk41

Verion I received pick up notification but I have not received my Import `Duty bill. That is normally issued when it lands in the UK before it clears customs. The delivered before is a nonsense. They say that to give them 7 days in which to deliver it in case you live in a remote area!

Verion

dfk41 I live in NW London, so hopefully on a delivery van and a swift journey round the M25 soon after it lands.

CoyoteOldMan

@Verion @dfk41 Congratulations!

DavecUK

View from Paolo’s Balcony, it’s 8:30 Saturday and Naples coming to life. No factory today (well I hope not) because it’s Saturday, but we were building something yesterday, hoping it will now wait until Monday.

MediumRoastSteam

DavecUK - you got to have mozzarella di bufala while you are there. I’m sure @Paolo_Cortese can source some really good freshly made stuff.

Just don’t have it with coffee. 🤣👌👍

Inspector

MediumRoastSteam

You are bit of a food connoisseur aren’t you :)

Also definitely try Neapolitan 🍕

Enjoy your visit there!

coffeealex

MediumRoastSteam Pizza, pasta, espresso, mozzarella. Hallmarks of the Campania region.

Uá ma ch’é sta meraviglia? as a Neapolitan there might say.

MediumRoastSteam

Inspector You are bit of a food connoisseur aren’t you :)

Nah. I just eat anything put in front of me, and I’ll try anything at least once. 😊👍. And I just love Italian food… (amongst many other cuisines). 👌👍😉

Cuprajake

You have too, best pizza I ever had at the foot of Vesuvius

Now I own a machine made in the very region

MediumRoastSteam

Cuprajake best pizza I ever had at the foot of Vesuvius

Now I own a machine made in the very region

And with the same name. 😉👌

coffeealex

MediumRoastSteam (amongst many other cuisines). 👌👍😉

That is what I think is great in the UK compared to Europe in general. The diversity of choice of international food here is second to none

DavecUK

I’m in the factory again today…Saturday! Playing with some ideas.

Just me Paolo and Miguel (who almost lives in the factory) Paolo is his uncle.

JahLaza

DavecUK did you happen to have a nice coffee yet today?

DavecUK

JahLaza the coffee in Naples is black as coal, I have a small double shot latte in the morning and that’s it. I am in coffee withdrawal.

LMSC

DavecUK strange. They make great machines, but not coffee. I had 1 espresso when we went to Rome on 2018. Never had another one. This was long before understanding what it takes to make a good cup.

ENJOY YOUR TIME IN NAPLES!

coffeealex

DavecUK the coffee in Naples is black as coal

and normally as thick as tar. They certainly like their dark roasts

Cuprajake

Suppose shows how versatile they are