torino - chocolate festival

there was s chocolate festival some 2wks ago? got a train tic there n met pris... she said after the winter olympics, the place the pple are alot more alive... she said she watched the closing ceremony along the street where the athelets walked passed n there was this lil kiddo sitting on his daddy's shoulders n shouting 'italia! italia!' n everyone was cheering lots too. pris said even she felt proud for them... gd stuff ay....

this is the chocolate festival banner.. think the fest was abt 1 wk or 2, we went on the last day!

its a small festival really, jsut 1 piazza worth of space... there were many vendors selling, well, chocolate of cos..then there was also the usual choco suspects like lindt n cadbury...here, for some reason we found out, pple dont eat nutella with bread! they think its weird... we think its lago weird when they eat pastry with nutella but never thot of spreading on bread!maybe it was jsut that one person... i dont know... but at the fest, they were selling bread with nutella-gao n crepes too... n maybe waffles.. jsut plain nutella nothign else n there was a long line...im my fathers words, 'we can make that at home too!' so obviously we gave that a miss....

some stuff they were selling...we tried some stuff.. like chocolate jam/spread... flavours like mint, peperoncino(chilli, which was really quite spicy!), lemon with white chocolate... but mint won... never fails....n chocolate liquore!(duno how to spell again... :) ) i got a bottle of that, its thick n creamy n chocolatey... nice! for abt 12euro a bot.. not that bad la huh...

some chocolate we bought...none too memoriable really.. jsut the bottom one, the golf foil one, its like the famous chocolate of torino, its hazelnut chocolate, but not the hard kind, it was smooth n nice!the other 2 were jsut sweet i think... too long to rememebr...

this is ferrero OPERA, i tried one.. its jsut liquore in the chocolate... the kind u bite n it drips all over... i wont get it again if u asked me, then again, i was never really into such chocolates... but like i mentioned b4, here, my chocolate capacity n everything else sweet has increased by..... alot. im posivtively chubbier now, i can see it in my face n i lost my abs centre line...which i had b4 i left! then again i had tonnes of dance then too... i used to jsut wack the chocolates n sweet stuff here man! they all cant go too wrong...oh well.... im trying to watch what i eat now, i definately dont wanna wait till i get back to spore n realise how pui i am n then try to lose it... heh...

these r chocolate designs by students! here they have food design, which jx n i was really interested in but its a theory kind of lesson, n all in italian... so for us to take... damn chialat.... but interesting ah!

thats the icon or like flag or torino, each place here has its own, so milan has 1 too..think it looks like some swiss flag or somehting, white with red cross... or the other way round i dunno la...

ok, this is bata in italy. remember i told u fellas that here bata aint school shoes shop man...

see what i mean...!