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Each city’s coffee guide

represents the creator’s

unique understanding of

the city’s coffee scene.

It is for this traditional function of coffee shops different cities on her blog. Among all the city coffee
that tourism is a common feature when designing city guides on her website, the most charming is the one of
coffee guides. Many travel blogs now have a designated her home, Singapore. There are 8 coffee houses featured
section for coffee shops, and the way coffee bloggers in her Singapore coffee guide, and each review is a
record their trips is to write about the cafes they care- demonstration of how well she knows her hometown
fully pick in each city they have been to. and how much she loves it. The not-so-common part of
Another rising trend nowadays is solo travel, this guide is the little tourism friendly section at the
and modern urbanisation has made solo travel easier end of each review in which Brooke would list a few
and safer than ever before. While these solo travel- worth going places near the cafe, such as tourist sights,
lers bravely and freely explore unfamiliar places, restaurants, shopping spots, and Instagramable places.
coffee and coffee houses have become their connec- Roamscapes is essentially a travel blog emphasising on
tion with the society. a travel-centred lifestyle and sustainable travelling, and
Brooke started her personal travel blog, Roams- the Singapore coffee guide under the food section in her
capes, in 2012 after finding her hidden passion of trav- blog brings anyone who wants to pay a visit to Singapore,
elling alone. Over the years, she developed a addiction solo or in groups, a list combining fine specialty coffee
to specialty coffee and started to write coffee guides of shops with interesting experiences nearby.

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