Mmm nom nom nom

7 September 2008

Lauren lived in Cologne for part of her university course (no, she wasn’t taking skiving to a new level, she was meant to be there) and so she seemed the perfect person to consult with regard to what one should see in the city.

She had just two tips:

1. Don’t climb the steps to the top of the cathedral. You will die.

2. Go to the chocolate museum.

On account of the two previous days’ walking climbing to the top of anything really wasn’t on the cards on day 3. Hell, standing up at all was negotiable. The Olds and I wandered around the streets, looked at stuff, took a boat ride (photos to follow) and then Mum and I went to the chocolate museum while Dad stayed outside to enjoy the much more manly pleasures of a 50s car show.

Inside the museum are displays about the history of cocoa farming and chocolate production, blah blah blah, and then you get to a production line where Lindt chocolates are being made and packed. Chocolatiers sit within perspex walls packing the mechanically wrapped chocolates that roll towards them on the conveyor belt, or making truffles, which they give to the kids behind you to taste, but not to you. But no fear, I didn’t go without tasting the good stuff as there is a huge chocolate fountain at which chocolate-dipped wafers are handed out. And I got two.

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2 Responses to “Mmm nom nom nom”

Rayne
8th September 2008 @ 6:48 pm

A whole museum dedicated to chocolate? Sounds perfectly wonderful.

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Lindy
10th September 2008 @ 8:39 pm

yuuuuummy!

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