3 pages on Amsterdam.

Do not bother going there , there are far more interesting cities in Europe to go to. Dont wast your money or time !!!!!!

Ah well, there you go.

I don't actually have a very sweet tooth. The chocolates I bought for Christmas – top-quality ones – still haven't been finished. And that's quite my norm.

I bought some exceptionally special ones from Bruges at the beginning of May last year – loved them. But the box still lasted until the end of the year.

I know you shouldn't laugh, particularly as I only speak a bit of Italian and a modicum of terrible French, but I do love a translated menu.

My favourite was a place in a little town in Slovakia that featured "Chicken Of The Neighbourhood" and "Spit On A Plate".

More than one waiter has been severely withered by one look from La Senora after that sort of comment.

Thats just weird.

I bought a box of Cadbury's Roses for the wife for Easter last weekend, nice of me wasn't it ?

Anyway, she's like you, likes chocolate but she'd expect to go back to that box of Roses in September and still find plenty left.

She'll be lucky, I scoffed the effin lot myself, threw the box out on Tuesday, don't think she's noticed yet.

I'm dead when she does.

Another strange one, it was La Senora who bought me a small punnet of hand made chocolates for my 50th birthday evening (not very many years ago).

Imagine my surprise when I scoffed one when I got home and found red chillies inside each one.

Chocolate with vegetables, something not right with that one.

Wonderful!






Well I did buy Hotel Chcolate eggs for both me and The Other Half for Easter. tb's was gone by Saturday. Mine is barely – dleicately – touched..

Chocolate and chilli are a match made in heaven, as are roasted garlic cloves covered in a good dark chocolate.

If you ever visit Cadbury World, you'll be offered a small cup of real hot chocolate: this is flavoured with chillies and is so much better than any mug of Bournville.

I am also partial to salted chocolate: melt a bar of good quality dark chocolate and pour it over a scattering of co sea salt. - Heaven

Not a pube in sight this weekend.