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    Natalia’s gift to Poland

    Apr 14, 2018 4 minutes

    Birthday presents are a chance to spoil loved ones with thoughtful gifts – movie tickets, dinner, or jewellery are popular choices. But for Polish barista Natalia Piotrowska, any birthday present from her boyfriend Konrad Kwiatkowski since 2013 has been coffee related. This includes a second hand Gaggia machine and Mazzer Luigi grinder, but perhaps the most generous gift Natalia has given herself is a Victoria Arduino Black Eagle machine.

    “I was probably the first person to have a Black Eagle installed in my home kitchen,” Natalia says. “When I lived in County Mayo, Ireland, in 2015, it would take me three hours to get to Dublin to work at 3fe and train for the 2015 World Bartista Championship (WBC), and three hours

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