Just back from 3 weeks in Italy and France. I like Italian bar coffee, for all its uniformity and lack of sophistication. It was, generally, great, bar a couple of really horrid shots including an Illy Gusto Forte at the Ferrari museum.
The coffee in France was, by contrast, disgusting and very expensive. Great jets of underextracted sour piss gushing into an oversized cup. €2.30.
Back home now, and I've opened a bag of Lavazza (generally shite) 100% arabica I got from Waitrose, and its quite nice. Must pop out to TKMaxx to see what treasure they have.