There's ivy growing across a trellis along the upper division between this section of the café and the next. All around me are round wooden tables and wicker chairs with red and beige plastic caning. The cup and saucer are blue. The ashtray is classic Heineken style, and the café soundtrack at the moment is Toto's "Africa."

The sugar was cubed. On the wall, a small wine advertisement is covering up the middle of a Charlie Chaplin poster.