The Chocolate Museum

Our original plan was to make the most of the short time we had in Cologne and we were going to get up really early. Of course we didn't because we were in holiday mode. So we only really managed to get ourselves going with the incentive of our getting free breakfast which finished at 10 am.

What to see first? Why the chocolate museum of course. We were there a long time, enjoying learning about the whole process starting from history and the cocoa bean, otherwise known as "Brown Gold" or the fruit of the gods;also looking at all the gadgets, and watching the chocolate getting made, and wrapped etc....Usually Greg has to exhort Jordy and I to read the blurbs, and thehistoric stuff so it was funny that this time he was asking us to please NOT read everything.

It was a neat place despite the fact that we only got to eat a little bit of free chocolate but that little bit sure did taste good. Plus we only bought one bar of chocolate each from the museum shop due to the exhorbitant prices. Plus we had been adviced that you can buy the chocolates elsewhere cheaper.

What we did spend money on was the museum cafe. It had surprisingly reasonable prices for cake and coffee. Jordy and I opted for cake. Unfortunately we have no pics of them because the waiter barely had time to set the cakes on the table before Jordy and I devoured them. He was lucky not to lose his hands. heh heh.