FROM SPAIN TO BELGIUM: THE CHOCOLATE TRIP.

The Chocolate Way, together with  Instituto de  Enseñanza Secundaria "Marcos Zaragoza" from  La Vila Joiosa (Spain), organized an educational and cultural exchange in Belgium in March 2015.

In the following pages you can follow, day by day, what happened. Do you want to follow us?

Vídeos del viaje

27th March 2015 - Brussels and Chocolate Museum

We arrived to the center of Brussels at two o’clock more or less. We had lunch in a good restaurant and we enjoyed the first hours in the city.

 In the Chocolate Museum we ate cookies with liquid chocolate and other types of chocolate such as 80% of cocoa and chocolate whit milk and butter, the ingredients to make chocolate nowadays.

Our guide was a nice woman who made a demonstration of how to make chocolate and we could try her delicious chocolates. 

Next, she also told about the history of the museum and the origin of chocolate around the world. It was a fantastic experience that we would like to repeat because the museum is very nice. 

28th March 2015 Brussels guided visit and EU Parliament

In the morning we visited the city.

In the afternoon we visited the European Parliament.

29th March - Ghent.

A DAY IN GHENT

We left the Hotel Meininger at 7.00 am to go to the Central Station. There, we took a bus. One hour later we started the tour in Ghent and it was raining a lot. We visited some monuments as the Market and several Cathedrals. At lunchtime we went to a pizza restaurant. After lunch we had a coffee in Starbucks.

Eventually at 5:00 pm we returned to the hotel. That day was awesome!

30th March 2015 - Bruges and Chocolate Museum

We took a bus to Bruges.

When we arrived, a guide called Diego showed us the town. It was beautiful! We visited a convent which had a church inside and we also strolled the streets of the city, it was a wonderful sunny day. Every single alley of Bruges was fantastic. The city is so well preserved that our visit seemed a time travel. We really enjoyed that day.

THE CHOCOLATE WAY IN BRUGES

We arrived at the museum at 3 o’clock pm. While we were waiting for the guide of the museum, we were eating chocolate.

First, we went to a room where we saw a cocoa plant  and chocolate sculptures. 

Later, we went to another room. In this room the guide explained to us the history of the chocolate. We entered  the museum’s kitchen, and the Spanish cook explained to us the procedure of making chocolates, and we ate them. It was delicious! In the last room, we watched a documentary about the chocolate in different countries.

31st March 2015 - Back home.

The last day, we had breakfast in the hotel and then we went to buy souvenirs in Brussels.

At 12 o'clock, we took a taxi to the airport and it arrived very late so we almost missed the flight. In the evening, we arrived in Spain and then we took a bus to our town.