Eurochocolate

Last weekend was quite eventful. In order to tell you everything that I want to, I'm going to split up the weekend into three different blog posts. So bright and early Friday morning started this very eventful weekend. My food and wine class took a field trip to the one and only:

Eurochocolate festival!!!! How cute is this sign?

The Eurochocolate festival is held every year in Perugia, Italy which is not far from Florence. Although we had to get up very early, the other girls in my class and I were super excited to experience the festival... what girl doesn't love chocolate? So we rode a bus to a parking lot and then took this absolutely adorable little tram to Perugia, which is situated high up on a hill:

We talked about how cute these little trams are for like ten minutes. Such girls.

Although smaller than I expected, the chocolate festival was everything I expected- everything you could imagine in chocolate. We tasted samples of hot chocolate (which was literally like liquid chocolate it was so thick), milk chocolate, dark chocolate, chocolate liquore, and my favorite the chocolate covered cherries. Now normally I don't like chocolate covered cherries, but these cherries were so small and so sweet it was hard not to love them. We walked around the entire festival, browsing all the options for chocolate purchases:

The standard chocolate bar.

Chocolate pizzas. You could even order just a slice!

They even had chocolate-like products for dogs! I almost made a purchase for Bennett, but then decided to save my money knowing he would never appreciate it fully.

I clearly made some purchases. My first purchase was dark-chocolate covered almonds, which were so delicious I ate them before I could even take a picture! I also bought three little chocolate bars:

The one on the left is lavender flavored, the middle one is berry flavored and the one on the right has chili pepper flakes on it.

Getting up close and personal with my dark chocolate berry-flavored chocolate bar. So delicious!

Overall, the Eurochocolate festival was a wonderful time. It was nice to get to know the girls in my food and wine class a little better and I obviously enjoyed the plethora of chocolate.

Ciao,

Sarah