Chocolate in Bruges :)

CHOCOLATES :

I felt that it was only right that I bring you a whole post devoted to some of our choco-highlights of the weekend.  I think of it as a duty personally.  I promise I did not enjoy sampling all this chocolate at all.  Not one bit. Honest.  

There are close to 50 chocolate shops in Bruges, many of them clustered around the main square.  Not all of them, however, make their own chocolate though - for that, you have to look out for the little 'handmade' sign in the window.   There is every variety of chocolate that you can imagine for sale from hot chocolate to slabs of cocoa to beautiful hand-crafted truffles to giant anteaters made out of chocolate (I kid you not).  

 Idiot that I am, I realised when I got home that I failed to really take any pictures of our two favourite chocolate shops.   

First up is The Chocolate Line (home to the chocolate anteater), a tiny shop located a short walk from the main square.  The chocolate combinations here vary from the traditional pralines to the bizarre (my favorite - the 'Atlanta', a bitter ganache flavoured with almonds and Coca Cola).  There is real craftsmanship and inventiveness in their chocolates and a playfulness that I just love.  It doesn't come cheap though; a 500g box (approx 30 chocolates) is nearly £30.