CioccolandoVI

If you have take a stroll in the streets of Vicenza these days you will be sourrounded by the wonderful smell of chocolate. In fact in the center of town an exhibition is taking place called "CioccolandoVI". Chocolate masters from all over Italy are gathered in Vicenza to sell and to promote their handmade chocolate. It's quite impressive what you can make with chocolate if you are really good at working with it. For example shoes, soccer shoes, different kinds of animals (elephants, toads, squirrels etc) and even working tools, for example pliers. Anyway, in additions to these oddities there were all types of chocolate you can think obout of: obviously milk and dark chocolate but also chocolate which tastes of orange (or "orange flavoured chocolate).... I'm probably a traditional person about when it comes to (sounds more natural) chocolate but I would never eat chocolate that basically doesn't taste like chocolate! Since all chocolate exposed at the exhibition is handmade it's really expensive: the average price is about 7/8 eur/hg which is a lot compared to an industrial one. But, you know, all raw material is first of finest quality and the working process itself costs more compared to industrial processes, where volume are is higher and so cost per unit are is lower. These This event, during the three days in which it takes place, attracts a lot of people. For example, during the last edition exhibition, about 30,000 people attended, which is a lot and makes it difficult even to walk. I went yesterday because today the rain was forecast weather forecasted rain (as it happended which it did by the way). The majority of stands were located in piazza dei Signori which is the main square of the city, but there were others stands in the sourrounding streets.

Great entry - I wish I could have attended the exhibition, sounds like a fantastic way to spend a weekend! :)