Got Milk?

[Bungkus]

Is UHT milk in small boxes (200ml or thereabouts) readily available in Spain (& France for that matter)? Got to have milk in my coffee, got to have my coffee before the cafés open... Prefer UHT over powdered or condensed, even if it weighs more!

 

[michryan]

Is UHT milk in small boxes (200ml or thereabouts) readily available in Spain (& France for that matter)? Got to have milk in my coffee, got to have my coffee before the cafés open... Prefer UHT over powdered or condensed, even if it weighs more!

I stopped having milk in my coffee many years ago for this very reason. I'm always an early riser and love a cuppa before anything is open so I carry coffee bags and mug.

 

[Bungkus]

Thanks Michryan, it's just there's some things I not ready to give up just yet . Got the coffee (I live in the land of coffee), got the mug, and would really like the milk!

 

[michryan]

Thanks Michryan, it's just there's some things I not ready to give up just yet . Got the coffee (I live in the land of coffee), got the mug, and would really like the milk!

Fair enough. As long as there is real coffee I say.

 

[Bungkus]

That other stuff is not coffee! However, others may argue that UHT milk is not milk!

 

[gracethepilgrim]

You can also get the tubes of condensed style milk in Spain - easy to carry
xG (although I would rather wait for the first open bar - the coffee in Spain is wonderful!)

 

[Rebekah Scott]

UHT is standard in Spain.

 

[oursonpolaire]

As difficult as it might be to forswear and abandon the first shot of coffee before you move, a practice beloved of most of my friends, my heartfelt advice is to let it, and enjoy a cafe con leche in the first cafe along the way. Happily, Spain is one of the best coffee countries in the world-- I think I have had 2 bad cups in 6 caminos and the half-hour or so you will be coffee-less will be well-rewarded.

 

[lizaresandrea]

We had difficulty finding UHT milk in 200 ml containers. Where we saw them in containers of 500 ml or less, we had to buy a pack of two or four, not just one. As for coffee, in many cases we saw Cafes near albergues serving cafe con leche at 6:30 a.m.