Monday, April 13, 2009

FOR CHOCOLATE LOVERS ONLY

On the 28th of March I went to the 5th "Festival Du Chocolat De Versoix" in a small lakeside town near Geneva (see my 2007 post). This chocolate festival is always very successful. It's popularity never stops growing and the number of chocolate lovers who coverge there is on the rise year after year. In 2008, 19'000 visitors showed up and, according to the crazy crowd hat there was this year around, surely another record has been broken in 2009...

Here are some pictures I took and a video (not mine/news) which might interest you (see link). And, there's no need to tell you that I bought quite a few delicious goodies there!

Voici un petit lien pour les francophones qui qimeraient en savoir plus sur ce "Festival Du Chocolat De Versoix":
24 Heures (voir article)
Journal TSR (voir video)
Posted by Rosa's Yummy Yums
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59 comments:

  1. lubnakarim0612:40 PM, April 13, 2009

    Wow beautifully decorated....Looks gorgeous.

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  2. ~nancy1:11 PM, April 13, 2009

    ..wow!!..ce doit être vraiment extraordinaire de voir tout ça..humm.. de sentir..de toute beauté!!

    ..bo lundi à toi Rosa..ici il fait soleil;)

    ~nancy xx

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  3. mamapasta1:23 PM, April 13, 2009

    un jour , il faudra que tu nous explique le lien entre la suisse et le chocolat..ils n'ont jamais eu de comptoir en Afrique , les Suisses,

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  4. Rosa's Yummy Yums2:02 PM, April 13, 2009

    MAMAPASTA: Non, on a jamais eu de comptoir en Afrique... La raison pour laquelle la Suisse entretien un lien si étroit avec le chocolat est dû au fait que la méthode de conchage du chocolat a été inventée par Rodolphe lindt en 1879. Voilà pourquoi la Suisse est synonyme de chocolat; à cause de son savoir-faire!

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  5. Ciao Chow Linda2:28 PM, April 13, 2009

    Those chocolates look so beautifully packaged. How much did you buy?

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  6. A_and_N3:03 PM, April 13, 2009

    by chocolate lovers you mean the whole world right? Because no one 'doesnt like' chocolate! :)

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  7. Valerie Harrison (bellini)3:34 PM, April 13, 2009

    Wouldn't we all have loved to attend this event with you Rosa:D

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  8. Anonymous3:40 PM, April 13, 2009

    Wow! That looks like one delicious event!

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  9. Doria4:28 PM, April 13, 2009

    Que de bons chocolats !!!!
    Bon lundi de Pâques !
    Doria

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  10. Dewi4:57 PM, April 13, 2009

    Wow, that must have been fun to go there. They all looks so delicious.
    Cheers,
    elra

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  11. Jamie5:56 PM, April 13, 2009

    Wow! I have been to the Salon du Chocolat in Paris and it is torture! How can one go, no matter how many things we sample, and not buy everything? I am lucky enough to live in a city with a few amazing chocolatiers and that is always our special treat to ourselves!

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  12. foodhoe6:11 PM, April 13, 2009

    ooh how beautiful everything looks dressed up in spring pastels! Now I'm craving a chocolate...

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  13. Daziano7:07 PM, April 13, 2009

    Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwle petit prince et des petits moutons!!!! J'adore!

    Happy Easter - Joyeuses Paques - Buona Pasqua!!!

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  14. Deborah7:29 PM, April 13, 2009

    Beautiful photos!

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  15. eilajean8:05 PM, April 13, 2009

    Who doesn't LOVE chocolate! The photos are stunning. I gained 10 pounds just looking atthem.

    Have a great day!

    eila

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  16. Andrée Valence-Lodwitz8:41 PM, April 13, 2009

    Hummm...un moment délicieux chez toi...et cela ne fera pas de mal sur les hanches (lol)
    Bisous

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  17. amal9:08 PM, April 13, 2009

    hummm! moi qui adore le chocolat, je suis servie! bisous

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  18. Ivy9:09 PM, April 13, 2009

    I can imagine how lovely this was. Swiss chocolates are so good.

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  19. awoz9:44 PM, April 13, 2009

    Je suis une ''chocolate lover', et merci de nous faire une petite visiste guidée et gourmande.
    J'espère que tu as passé une joyeuse Pâques!

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  20. ~Lexibule~9:56 PM, April 13, 2009

    Humm... quelles délicieuses photos ma Chère Rosa;)

    Bon lundi à toi!! xxx

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  21. guylaine12:18 AM, April 14, 2009

    Superbes ces photos et ton chat est toujours aussi beau lui aussi, moi je n'ai pas eu le temps de participer à ce cat-blogging car je recevais toute la famille ! bises Rosa !

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  22. Carolyn Jung1:46 AM, April 14, 2009

    I think my waistline just grew two inches from looking at the photos. ;)

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  23. Anonymous1:58 AM, April 14, 2009

    Here I thought I was was tired of Easter chocolate! but no!

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  24. Peter M2:56 AM, April 14, 2009

    May a chocolate admirer jump in too? Yum!

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  25. Rosa3:56 AM, April 14, 2009

    Hand risen high. I am a chocolate lover, by all means! What gorgeous stuff. WOW!!!

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  26. Jennifer4:25 AM, April 14, 2009

    I can't even imagine how long it must have taken to make some of those chocolates.

    How lucky that you got to attend that!

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  27. Claudia4:33 AM, April 14, 2009

    Oh! How lucky you are! Seeing is almost as good as tasting.

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  28. Arwen from Hoglet K4:41 AM, April 14, 2009

    Oh those chocolates look beautiful! I'm jealous.

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  29. Passionate Eater5:13 AM, April 14, 2009

    That is one festival I wish I could have gone to! I am so jealous of your accessibility to the finest chocolate in the world (Swiss chocolate)!

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  30. Mercotte6:44 AM, April 14, 2009

    Effectivement c'est parfait pour moi tout ça, je ne suis jamais saturée de chocolat !!

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  31. Sharon7:15 AM, April 14, 2009

    Gorgeous photos! I would have paid so much money to be at that festival.

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  32. Anonymous7:41 AM, April 14, 2009

    toll sieht das aus, wenn Versoix nur nicht so weit weg wäre.

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  33. Sam Sotiropoulos7:41 AM, April 14, 2009

    Rosa, I am a confirmed chocoholic. I am not the jealous type, but this posting is making me envious of your trip to such a mecca of cacaomania! Thank you for sharing. :-)

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  34. sandra8:39 AM, April 14, 2009

    hummm ça donne envie !!!! bises sandra

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  35. Miette8:56 AM, April 14, 2009

    Wow, they all look so delicious. It must have been fun to go there, doesn't it !

    Cheers,

    Miette

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  36. Mamina10:43 AM, April 14, 2009

    C'est plus raisonnable de les regarder en photos tous ces chocolats... alors, je me régale!

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  37. Zita11:24 AM, April 14, 2009

    O..my, I wish Iwas there with you :)

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  38. Palaisdeslys12:54 PM, April 14, 2009

    Merci beaucoup Rosa pour ce délicieux partage chocolaté!!!

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  39. cuisineplurielle1:05 PM, April 14, 2009

    et bien que de gourmandises

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  40. Mélanie2:29 PM, April 14, 2009

    Oh!
    Tout ça, c'est trop beau. Ça donne faim!
    :)

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  41. Cicero Sings3:26 PM, April 14, 2009

    A chocolate festival ... my oh my. One could never come away from that empty handed. Those look positively scrum-dilly-itious!

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  42. Big Boys Oven6:00 PM, April 14, 2009

    wow a chcolat festival! I am melting now.... the figurine looks amazing standing on top of the chocolat!

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  43. Alice7:14 PM, April 14, 2009

    c'est trop beau cette panoplie de chocolat !!

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  44. Thistlemoon7:32 PM, April 14, 2009

    What beautiful chocolates! I love all the colorful decorations!

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  45. Hopie7:43 PM, April 14, 2009

    What mouth-watering photos ! It all looks so delicious. Deciding what to bring home must be difficult ;-)

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  46. La Cuisine d'Helene7:54 PM, April 14, 2009

    Je suis tellement jalouse. Que c'est magnifique.

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  47. Agnès8:10 PM, April 14, 2009

    Ce sont de très belles réalisations !!! Merci pour tes magnifiques photos, bisous

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  48. Juliana10:23 PM, April 14, 2009

    OMG, such a great pictures, could not stop going over and over.

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  49. cathy10:40 PM, April 14, 2009

    Heureusement qu'il n'y a pas que noel et paques pour manger du chocolat...!! Tes photos sont très belles!!
    Bises

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  50. Pavithra Elangovan11:46 PM, April 14, 2009

    Great pictures..No words

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  51. Joie de vivre12:15 AM, April 15, 2009

    Everything looks amazing! I'd have a hard time not spending a fortune there. :)

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  52. Rosa12:56 AM, April 15, 2009

    I needed a chocolate fix, so I just came back here. Thank you dear Rosa. mmmmm, that satisfied me!

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  53. Anonymous1:44 AM, April 15, 2009

    We are definitely chocolate lovers, so we could look at these pictures all day. That has to be the best tasting chocolate ever.

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  54. Yasmeen4:22 AM, April 15, 2009

    Such pretty chocolate creations,would love to taste each one of those goodies:)

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  55. chouya7:49 AM, April 15, 2009

    Qu'ils sont jolis les chocolats de la première photo ! et les autres aussi !

    Bises

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  56. Shionge10:13 AM, April 16, 2009

    Aiya yayayyaya....chocolate here I come and I've shopped till I dropped when I was in Switzerland back in 1990 and I bet there's more chocolate shops now :D

    Thank you thank you thank you Rosa!! :D

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  57. bren7:08 PM, April 16, 2009

    you have such a rich life of culture and great food! i love it! thanks for sharing great choco with us lovers. i need to figure out a way to come to that festival next year! :)

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  58. Bharti7:28 AM, April 17, 2009

    That's like dying and going to heaven!

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  59. MrChocolateshop11:38 PM, May 23, 2009

    hey rosa, this is MrChocolateshop i have opened a new online chocolateshop and i and would be honored if i could get a review from you about my site. please check it out at www.myspace.com/MrChocolateshop
    i thank you for your time.

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