Perugia

Every year in Perugia during the third week in October there is a chocolate festival. It is called "Eurochocolate" and it is similar to Oktoberfest in Germany except it's chocolate instead in beer. Perugia is a small town about 3 hours outside of Rome. It is also, coincidentally, the place where Amanda Knox was studying abroad and her trial actually took place there only a few days before I (along with a billion other people from Europe) arrived for the chocolate festival.

The festival took place in the center of the town and every street you walked down there were a million white tents and each one had a different brand of chocolate. I bought a "chocolate card" for 6 euro which allowed me to visit different tents that would stamp my card and give me a free sample of their chocolate. With this card I got hot chocolate, a chocolate picture frame, Toblerone, chocolate smoothie, chocolate cones, chocolate muffin, chocolate bread, chocolate cream cheese, chocolate liqueur, and a few truffles. It was a really good deal. My favorite was the hot chocolate because it was basically hot pudding. On top of all the free samples I also purchased plenty of chocolate to take back home with me.

The downside of the trip was that it ended up being freezing cold and all I had was a sweatshirt so I ended up buying a coat on the second day because I was basically frozen.