Oh I totally agree, I would love to have a proper coffee machine back. I still have my unfixable sunbeam sitting in the shed, I loved it that much
The biggest reason why we were thinking of not going down the manual machine path is because we cannot get good coffee beans here. We got better coffee when we lived out in the sticks compared to what we have access to, and we're only an hour away from the city here. Go figure yeah?
We've tried playing around with the pods, but nothing seems to make dh happy with it. I dont understand his reasoning, but I jump at the chance to go shopping

L&B Ive been researching the lavazza machines today, I do like their coffee, and I do like that its not nespresso. And I have to say Im impressed.

One day we will have a manual back in the house, just have to find a great bean source so that we can nuse it

Thank you all