The Belgian Life
Belgians kids grow up with chocolates. Not just bar chocs, but godivas and leonidas with praline, caramel, coconut, flakes, cafe, and who knows what else they think of to use as fillings. disgusting! especially since each leonidas or godiva choc costs almost 2 SGD...but you bet its heaven for the girls. Celine went mad there. Freshly made choc shops line the streets; there's one every 2 shops. It's hard not to get distracted. Oh anyway this place i'm talking about is Brugge, some call it Little Venice.Anyway Brugge is 1 hour from Brussels' main train station. I cant stop raving about how convenient the trains are now that they really are takin us places!! I must have eaten more gourmet chocolates in Brugge alone, ever. With chocolate shops all over the place its hard to resist, they seem to beckon all the time. They even had chocs in the shapes of toy trains, boobs, huge easter bunnies, rubber duckies, you just have to name it! Its amazing, we're inspired to set up a chocolate store in singapore and all the girls will flock to us, whee!
Wandering aimlessly along the cobbled streets and terranced buildings taking in the quaint surroundings eventually brought us to a chocolate museum. Catch: there was chocolate tasting inside. That did it for us... amazing stuff with lots of trivia like where choc was originally discovered, how it became fashionable, actually stuff you can find from the net. The highlight was the chocolate making demo where a simple request for a photo with the chocolate consultant translated to 3 more free chocs!! (other people only got 1, haha!) We asked him to pose for a photo with us and he whipped out 3 other chef hats for us, passed Ash the huge ladle to the huge choc barrel, piping bag for me, chocolate mould for Celine :)
Wandered somemore as we saw little waterways with boats loaded with tourists in it. Brugge is essentially a tourist town, everyone's there just for the chocolates!! Found a park with ducks and swans in it, had a little bread and started feeding them. They ARE REAL QUICK! In no time at all, the entire brood, probably 30 of them?, were out of the water, waddling toward us for more bread, quacking their heads off. Hahahahah i was sooo afraid they'll nibble my shoes =p
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