Week 3

Today marks a new beginning. Instead of paying up to 2 euro for my coffee in the morning, I made a pot at home! It's not as good as in the bakery (patisserie) down the street but it's pretty good and I can blog and/or work while I drink it. Here they serve every cup of coffee with a little treat -- either a "Speculos" which is sort of like butter cookie (and they also make a paste-like substance out of it, sort of a cross between Nutella and peanut butter) or a square of dark chocolate. I think that's reason enough to go get some squares of dark chocolate, don't you think?

As long as we're on the topic of chocolate... In all the supermarkets they sell Cote d'Or. That seems to be the only chocolate they sell in supermarkets so I have to assume the cheapest and lowest quality. The other chocolatiers have their own shops around town or near Grand Place and some have just one (Pierre Marcoletti, for example, which is in Petit Sablon and had free samples upstairs. Yay!). One of my Belgian hosts likes Galler, so I'll have to look for that one. Neuhaus has a shop at the metro stop nearest to us (Port de Namur). Godiva is all over and then there are "artisanal" chocolatiers too. Lots of choices!