Every year the Umbrian hill town of Perugia has a chocolate festival which invites chocolatiers from all over Europe to participate in the celebration. The streets in Perugia's city center were packed with chocolate hungry tourists and booths upon booths represented by various chocolate companies. Hundreds of stands all having to do with chocolate, perfect, right?! There were chocolate covered nuts, fruits, and even pasta, hot chocolate, solid chocolate, chocolate sauces, chocolate liquor, nutella...and the list goes on. My friends and I bought a 5 euro chocolate VIP card that we had to take to different booths and redeem samples, a feat more easily said then done seeing that we had to search through numerous booths to find the ten that coincided with our card. It was definitely worth the effort though!
On our trip we stayed in a hostel that was outside of the city center which would have been a problem if it weren't for the above ground mini-metro (a cross somewhere between the Jetsons and Disneyland) that took us right to the center. On the first night we happened upon a restaurant for dinner that was absolutely amazing. I had chocolate ravioli filled with ricotta cheese and pears dressed in a rich butter sauce mmm! We shared wine and talked for a long time before heading back to our hostel. Before leaving though, our waitress brought us a sampling of their chocolate dessert free of charge.
Needless to say we left Perugia happily full of chocolate. =)
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