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Belgian chocolate heaven
30 March 2006
Chocolate lovers make their way to Belgium throughout the year but this April the country's best chocolatiers converge for a sweet festival.
From 28 April to 1 May Choco-Laté, Belgium's first chocolate festival, will take place in Brugges.
The organisers claim the whole city will be drenched in chocolate with the focal point the chocolate fair in Oud Sint-Jan, a renovated 19th century hospital that now acts as a conference centre but is also classed as a historical monument.
There are set to be lots of different types of chocolate to be tasted, in new combinations such as chocolate and beer, wine or foie gras.
Chocoholics can also be treated to chocolate massages.
Visitors to the fair will be taken on a tour of Brugges highlighting the major chocolate sights, including the Chocolate Museum, and culminating in the chance to taste the first ever drinking chocolate, a spicy pink drink supped by Mayan warriors and noblemen thousands of years ago.
For children special activities will be organised that will allow then to get their hands into chocolate and create their own specialities.
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From 28 April to 1 May Choco-Laté, Belgium's first chocolate festival, will take place in Brugges.
The organisers claim the whole city will be drenched in chocolate with the focal point the chocolate fair in Oud Sint-Jan, a renovated 19th century hospital that now acts as a conference centre but is also classed as a historical monument.
There are set to be lots of different types of chocolate to be tasted, in new combinations such as chocolate and beer, wine or foie gras.
Chocoholics can also be treated to chocolate massages.
Visitors to the fair will be taken on a tour of Brugges highlighting the major chocolate sights, including the Chocolate Museum, and culminating in the chance to taste the first ever drinking chocolate, a spicy pink drink supped by Mayan warriors and noblemen thousands of years ago.
For children special activities will be organised that will allow then to get their hands into chocolate and create their own specialities.
© Adfero Ltd
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