Price Points: Travel mugs

Up until a couple of weeks before lock-down, we’d been making regular trips between Mid-Wales and Northern England. We were taking stock to our antique centre space in Hebden Bridge and returning a couple of days later with a carload of household items from storage. Moving house has been taking us quite a while!

We tend to stop for a break half-way, which often includes coffee and a pastry. If we’re supplying our own coffee, then we’ve taken to making it there on the spot – using a flask of boiling water and one of those instant cappuccino or flat white sachets. We much prefer it to coffee that was made a few hours in advance and kept warm in a flask. It doesn’t have that distinctive ‘plastic-y’ taste…. and those tiny flask cups aren’t great either. We brew ours in decent sized travel mugs. There’s none of that unpleasant after-taste – they’re more robust and the coffee stays warmer for longer.

They come in a variety of sizes and materials to suit your requirements. Here are three examples that caught our eye.

1. New Bone China travel mugs: £8.78 each, Wayfair
2. Stojo Biggie slate collapsible cup – 470ml: £15.00, Argos
3. Alessi Caffa Travel Mug, 400ml, brown: £35.00, John Lewis

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