One Viennese admitted to me that being in a coffee house is like leaving the real world. "you close the doors and all the troubles you have are forgotten."

一个维也纳人对我坦陈，身处咖啡馆中就像脱离了现实世界：“你避开尘世，忘记了所有的烦恼，它们都被抛在了脑后。”

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One Viennese admitted to me that being in a coffee house is like leaving the real world.

在维也纳市中心格拉本区的步行街，沿路都是路边咖啡吧。

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Another strange thing about a Viennese coffee house is that the coffee is almost irrelevant.

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In a Viennese coffee house, something strange happens to time.

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The typical Viennese coffee house -- an elegant institution with high ceilings, marble-top tables and a stack of newspapers to make one linger over an impeccable black brew with a customary glass of water -- may be more famously known than its Ukrainian cousin, but to trace back the origin of the communal coffee space, you have to go to Lviv, a Medieval city in western Ukraine.

BBC: Tracing the coffee house revolution to its Ukrainian roots