Eurochocolate Perugia 2015 - day trip

Further to my post about the Euro chocolate in 2014, sure enough that time has rolled back around and its chocolate time again.

Instead of going to Perugia for the weekend, this year we decided to just go for the day.

The trip is a bit arduous from Rome for a day trip, 3 hours there and 3 hours to come back with about the same time in between to actually visit the festival. However having been before, we knew the score so it was ample time.

The annual Euro Chocolate festival, that has been running since the early 90‘s descends on the city of Perugia, the capital of the region of Umbria, every mid October and lasts for a whopping 10 days! You can read a detailed post about it here. The set up was near enough exactly the same as last year apart from a couple of different stands.

Chocolate kebab anyone?

One thing I would comment on, was that unlike last year, I don't the think the 'chococard' was as worth it this year. The 'chococard' costs 5 euros and allows you to get samples from various stalls, enabling you to try many different chocolates without having to buy from each one. This year however, the samples were definitely less and the queues to get them were long. A couple of the samples from last year had also been taken off, unfortunately one of which was my favourite, chocolate baileys! Uffa!

Being silly with the chocolate moustaches that were given out when you bought the chococard.

After a wander around all the stalls, collecting the samples from our card and a few purchases we were well and truly chocolate filled and on a sugar high. We actually took a little walk around the beautiful city, escaping the crowds of the festival.

To have a little break from chocolate we had a quick prosecco stop in a cute little bar with a stunning view.

There was just enough time for a last dose of chocolatey goodness before hopping back on the bus back down to the station to jump on the train back to Rome.

Churros

For the festival, the city puts on extra buses dedicated to the chocolate festival to take you to and from the station (the festival is located up the hill in the centre of Perugia whilst the station is located on the flatter land). You can take the mini metro or normal public buses, however these become very crowded as you can imagine. For about an extra 50 cents you can take on the blue 'choco buses' which run frequently and are a little less busy.

A great day out from Rome if you've been to Perugia before. Or definitely more of a weekend trip if you haven't.

Ciao for now

Zoe

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