Free coffee at cafes across Croatia to mark World Coffee Day on 1 October

World Coffee Day celebrated on 1 October (Photo: Julius Meinl)

On Monday 1 October World Coffee Day will be marked and a number of cafes in Croatia will celebrate by giving customers free coffee in return for a poem, song, lyrics, thought or phrase written on a piece of paper. 

Croatia will join a number of other countries around the world in the Julius Meinl ‘Pay with a poem’ initiative to celebrate World Coffee Day which is celebrated on 1 October 2018.

Coffee or tea will be free at over 250 cafes across Croatia in exchange for a poem, song, lyrics, or thought. The initiative has been popular when it has taken place over the last five years on World Poetry Day. 

Coffee for a thought, poem, lyric or song (Photo: Julius Meinl)

More than 100,000 poems were collected during last year’s initiative in Croatia. 

You can find out the cafes involved in the project here.