Bruges’s Best Kept Secret………..

choc shop
I really can’t remember if I have ever posted about this before so forgive me if I have, but with the Christmas Market’s Mini Cruise season almost upon us, and the fact that I have recently been sorting through some old photo’s, I felt the need to share something that I really love about Bruges – the best place to drink hot chocolate! And believe you me, you have NEVER had hot chocolate on a par with this in your life.

I discovered this little gem purely by accident about  four years ago on a dark, wet miserable December morning. My colleague Vicki and I were wandering round looking for the Christmas Markets, which incidentally we never found, and decided we needed to find a cafe to sit and have a coffee and get out of the rain for a while. Hot chocolate did not even enter our heads until we turned a corner and there in front of us was a very unassuming little shop with a banner across the front which read “The place to be to drink the best hot chocolate” – in we went, up the rickety, steep old staircase on the right of the front door, to find, quite simply, Heaven. The most bohemian little cafe ever. Four of our colleagues had beaten us to it actually and they said “you have to have the hot chocolate and waffles” – like we needed persuading really.

Said Hot chocolate duly arrived – the most enormous teacups you have ever seen, full to the brim of steaming milk, accompanied by best Belgian chocolate molded into muffin case shapes and filled with chocolate drops – none of your Cadbury powdered malarkey out of a tin, proper Belgian chocolate which you dropped into the steaming milk and whisked with the tiny little whisk they supplied you with. Oh my life, I dread to think how many calories were in it but quite frankly I couldn’t have cared less, it was bliss, every last drop of it. Not to forget the waffle which you can have with cinnamon, icing sugar, hundreds and thousands, or yet more chocolate 🙂 The sugar rush I had afterwards was immense and I thought I would never get over it.

choc drops

So, how to get there – when your shuttle bus drops you at the coach park you will walk over a bridge then through a park at the end of which you will come to a road (imagine you are at a T junction), turn left and as you walk you will see ahead of you the gable-end of a building, take the road on the left of this building. The chocolate shop is the last but one building on the right before you reach a ‘square’.

If you are visiting Bruges I highly recommend this Heavenly chocolate experience, definitely something not to be missed, such a treat, oh and while you are walking back to the coach don’t forget to grab a bottle of chocolate liquer from one of the Chocolat shops (green logo) along you all your Festive chocolate requirements.

Above is the photo that reminded me of this little shop – myself and four great friends of mine a couple of years ago when we were celebrating three of us having a milestone birthday – yes you guessed it, we were 21 again! The other photo is aforementioned chocolate drops in their chocolate cups – Mmmmmm!

Happy Cruising Folks! And if you get lost in Bruges just give me a call on 0800 408 6084 and I will direct you to the chocolate shop 🙂

 

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