Cioccolato!

Last month we took a day trip to Perugia, Italy for the annual EuroChocolate festival held there. EuroChocolate is one of the biggest chocolate festivals in Europe and draws a crowd of almost a million visitors every year, so anyone who knows how I feel about chocolate can imagine how excited I was.

Perugia was about a 2 hour bus ride away and we got a ChocoCard through the travel program we went with which got us all kinds of tasty free samples. I basically learned you can make just about anything from chocolate, from the surprisingly delicious (pepper flavored chocolate) to the sort-of disgusting (chocolate and pear juice) to the downright ridiculous (chocolate batteries??).

Chocolate liqueur shots.

Posing with Mr. EuroChocolate

The BEST hot chocolate I've ever had. Nothing like American hot chocolate, so rich, thick and creamy it basically just tastes like a melted chocolate bar.

Yep... 32 flavors.

Chocolate kebabs!

Chocolate for dogs

Hot chocolate, anyone?

Mmm.. chocolate covered candied oranges. Probably my favorite thing I got.

Lindt!

Kappa keys

Adventure sports for the chocolate enthusiast--a chocolate rock wall.