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Geographer Cafe Malacca

I had a short trip to Malacca on the first weekend of November 2015. I had a chance to attend the 2015 ASEAN Social Enterprise Conference in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and I went to Malacca afterward. It was my second time visiting Malacca and it was not even listed on the traveling plan in 2015. I just remember one fine day at office one of my very nice senior colleague (Ibu Canserina) from Singapore was calling me to ask somebody for creating a demo. I just had no plan after the conference and I was thinking that come to her apartment and spend the rest of my weekend would be a great plan. However, she asked to meet her and have a short trip to Malacca. I will write my whole Malacca story later :)

My point here is I want to tell you about a cafe in Malacca. I had never been there before until Ibu Rina asked me to go. Yes, it names Geographer Cafe. It is located at 83, Jalan Hang Jebat, 75200 Malacca, Malaysia. In my words, you just walk straight to famous Jonker Street and the cafe is just in the right corner. It is easier to be found if you walk on the right side of the river or from the well-known Malacca Church.

I just remember that I was walking in Jonker Street 2 years ago, yet I did not find the cafe. I just excused myself that I was walking alone at the night under my umbrella. I was not focused, at all.

Sunday morning I and Regina (a niece of Ibu Rina) were delaying to go. We were just laying on our hostel bed and waiting for a queuing to take a shower. Ibu Rina had left earlier and would be waiting for us there to have breakfast. It was just definitely a brunch, yet we had a very western breakfast style at that cafe. Though, after finishing those things and we were ready to go, our dorm-mate Kiva (a guy from Canada) asked me and Regina a lot of questions regarding his plan to visit Indonesia. Ibu Rina just texted us to go. We just could not leave Kiva with unanswered questions instead.

I and Regina were trying to go to the cafe with her direction and got wrong three times. I just smiled and asked her to show me the GPS. And I said, "come follow me, I am a geographer!" we walked and we just arrived. It was so closed actually.

We had a very short breakfast, I had my coffee (as usual), bread, and so on (as seen as western breakfast style). I think Geographer Cafe is very recommended if you want to stay longer, to have a lengthy conversation, or just to stay and read a book or novel. Yet, we did not have much time for staying because we wanted to explore other foods (food was our first purpose in entirely trip).

Overall, for you, no matter you are a geographer or not. If you have a chance to visit Malacca, do visit the Geographer cafe as well. You need to try its coffee and other variants. And the most reason for me to visit, because I am a geographer! :)

Ibu Rina and I were in front of Geographer Cafe

We were just having a silly conversation. Not we, but Regina and I loved to have a silly conversation :p

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