The best thing about living near Switzerland has got to be the abundance of amazing chocolate. Can you believe this is the fist time we have gone to the annual chocolate festival? We took the train to avoid car show traffic around Geneva - two 20 minute rides and we arrived at a festival tent full of chocolate samples from some of Switzerland's finest chocolatiers. Even a vegan can find enough dairy-free dark chocolate to start to get a stomach ache, but we paced ourselves as best we could against the ubiquitous treats. I ate some of the sweetest chocolate covered raisins ever and had a cup of hot cocoa and we nibbled bits from each exhibitor.
One of my favorites was these rabid chocolate bunnies...their maker told me they wouldn't smile (hehehe). Not chocolate, but these candy apples were bright and beautiful in the sunshine.
Once we made our rounds, and stopped at every table, we hopped the chocotrain to visit the local chocolate factory, Favarger. (My absolute favorite that I buy every week!) Yeah!
We spent a little time sitting in the sunshine on the lakefront, and then decided to spend the afternoon walking. We rode the train partway back, had a little picnic, and then walked along the river toward home (with a kilo of chocolate in the backpack).
River trail near Satigny.
