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)

60 comments:

Kitchen Flavours said...

Wow beautifully decorated....Looks gorgeous.

~nancy~ said...

..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

mamapasta said...

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,

Rosa's Yummy Yums said...

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!

Ciao Chow Linda said...

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

A_and_N said...

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

Bellini Valli said...

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

danamccauley said...

Wow! That looks like one delicious event!

Sophie said...

MMMMMM...that event is something for me!!! I love choclate in every forme!

Doria said...

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

Elra said...

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

Jamie said...

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!

foodhoe said...

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

Daziano said...

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

Happy Easter - Joyeuses Paques - Buona Pasqua!!!

Deborah said...

Beautiful photos!

eilajean said...

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

Have a great day!

eila

La table lorraine d'Amélie said...

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

amal said...

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

Ivy said...

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

awoz said...

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!

~Lexibule~ said...

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

Bon lundi à toi!! xxx

guylaine said...

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 !

Carolyn Jung said...

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

The Things We Carried said...

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

Peter M said...

May a chocolate admirer jump in too? Yum!

Rosa said...

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

Jennifer said...

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!

Claudia said...

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

Arwen from Hoglet K said...

Oh those chocolates look beautiful! I'm jealous.

Passionate Eater said...

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)!

Mercotte said...

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

Sharon said...

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

lamiacucina said...

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

Sam Sotiropoulos said...

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. :-)

sandra said...

hummm ça donne envie !!!! bises sandra

Miette said...

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

Cheers,

Miette

Mamina said...

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

Zita said...

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

Palaisdeslys said...

Merci beaucoup Rosa pour ce délicieux partage chocolaté!!!

cuisineplurielle said...

et bien que de gourmandises

cammu said...

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

Cicero Sings said...

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

Big Boys Oven said...

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

Alice said...

c'est trop beau cette panoplie de chocolat !!

JennDZ - The Leftover Queen said...

What beautiful chocolates! I love all the colorful decorations!

Hopie said...

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

Helene said...

Je suis tellement jalouse. Que c'est magnifique.

Agnès said...

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

Juliana said...

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

cathy said...

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

Pavithra said...

Great pictures..No words

Joie de vivre said...

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

Rosa said...

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

duodishes.com said...

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

Yasmeen said...

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

chouya said...

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

Bises

Shionge said...

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

bren said...

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! :)

Bharti said...

That's like dying and going to heaven!

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