The Wandering Scot

An occasional travel journal

Tag: Chocolate

  • Berlin: Ritter Sport World of Chocolate

    Beautiful Berlin!  City of Culture, Museums, Galleries, and … “Ritter Sport Colorful World of Chocolate“!

    This is the flagship store of the Ritter Sport Chocolate Empire.  Unlike the Lindt Home of Chocolate in Zurich, it doesn’t have a museum, but it does have a delicious all-you-can eat chocolate fountain.  And the store sells the full range of Ritter Sport delicacies including some specials that aren’t widely available yet, such as the yummy new “Crispy Banana” flavor.

    You can also design your own custom chocolate mix, with your own cover art.  I did some quick jpeg wrangling and created the Baby Wombat Special Blend.  (Chocolate with extra added chocolate droplets.)

  • Zurich: Lindt Home of Chocolate

    Why visit Zurich? Well, there’s lots of historic sights and then … there’s Lindt’s “Home of Chocolate“.  A museum and homage to chocolate, with an all-you-can-eat tasting bar.  Yes, really!

    I survived my visit.  But it was a close run thing.  I hadn’t realized there would be three all-you-can-eat chocolate tasting areas.

    The museum also provides an excellent overview of chocolate’s production and manufacturing.  Plus a slightly biased view of chocolate’s history, where everything important was invented by the Swiss and there is absolutely no mention of any silly Belgians.

  • Iceland: Puffins!

    I’m up near Borgarfjorour Eystri in North-East Iceland visiting puffins.

    At Hafnarhólmi, visitors are allowed to walk right up to a puffin nesting area. There is a wooden walkway and a “hide” right in among the puffins.  There are many, many puffins!  They are slightly nervous of humans but only slightly.  Some nests are right beside the walkway.  You can easily get to within 2 meters of the puffins.

    It was great fun to see the puffins close up.  But this is Iceland and today was a rainy day, so both I and the puffins got thoroughly soaked!

    Update August 7th.  Back in Reykjavik I was enjoying the fine local cuisine, including the excellent Nói Síríus Icelandic Milk Chocolate.  But then Mike emailed me and asked if I had tried a cheese-and-puffin sandwich.  Well, no, but it did sound like a really great idea.  And all the ingredients were readily available…

    Disclaimer: No puffins were harmed in the making of this post. All sandwich scenes were performed by daring stunt-puffin, Lundi Lundison, who was fishily rewarded.  And it was all Mike’s idea anyway.  🙂