The golden coffee list

I do not know how about you, but when I travel, there is one thing I search for as the first and most important one in every metropolis, city, and village: a speciality coffee shop. Even if I have to walk for 40 minutes, I will, as there is no greater joy than sipping a nice cup of coffee roasted to perfection by people who are in love or even obsessed with what they do. And, usually, the end result of these visits, if luggage permits, is a bag or two of their coffee to take home to prolong that taste after returning home. It is a shame I started collecting these memories only recently, yet here are some of my favourites found in Lyon, the Rhone region, Bordeaux, Annecy, La Rochelle, and elsewhere.