CHOCOLATE FANTASIES at the MUSEO DE XOCOLATA in BARCELONA
April 3rd, 2007
Rain la la, rain la la, what a pain la la…. It is washing the city streets and a lot of people are enjoying the pre-summer refreshment with these April showers in the city (did you SEE the amazing STORM last night?) However, I have friends visiting me here in Barcelona precisely this week and it is tricky to visit all the wonderful sights of Barcelona when your shoes are full of rain-water, your spectacles are so misty that the Sagrada Familia seems like a blurry spikey giant in your face and your jeans are so soaked and heavy that you can´t walk up any steps anymore.
So WHAT DO YOU DO? You go to visit the CHOCOLATE MUSEUM of course! And then you go to sit in a lovely warm Spanish café and dunk your spoon into one of the best hot chocolate experiences money can ever buy and you forget the weather, or any other such troubles and you get drunk with chocolate.
In the Museo de Xocolata you can learn all about the joys of chocolate, from its origins to its medicinal, nutritional & aphrodisiac properties! It costs less than 4 euros to enter the museum (the idea being to spend your money on the delicious treats inside) and you can probably do ALL of your Easter shopping for friends and family in one simple shopping spree!
If it is still raining :-), then the closest metro to the Chocolate Museum is ‘Jaume I’, otherwise you can stroll into El Born and find the Museum at the top of the Passeig del Born, on ‘Calle Comerç’, 36. The Chocolate Museum is the first of its kind in Catalonia and there are plenty of other nearby chocolate shops, speciality ice-cream parlours with chololate fountains and patisseries to continue the chocolate journey for a day, if the museum has wet your appetite! If you are not up-to-date on the Spanish Chocolate experience, then you can find further details here, about the best hot chocolate in Barcelona!
- Hege -
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