Chocolate in Gramado

You CAN have too much chocolate!

Gramado is known as the Bariloche of Brazil; in fact they are sister cities. Settled by Germans and Italians, it is famous for several expensive chocolate factories. It is a little bit like Bariloche with the architecture and the surrounding town of Canela looks a bit like Gatlinburg or the Wisconsin Dells; a lot of tourist traps. 

We started the day with homeschool and I dumped and filled water and cassette as usual. Marcelus from Garapaba showed up and told us the Santo Inacio factory was able to fix their AC and automatic step in one day.

We walked around the block to a pizza buffet which was pretty lousy. The pizzas were dried and crust were terrible. They had dessert pizzas with chocolate sauce but even that was terrible. 

We took an Uber to the town center and it was pretty busy and looked a lot nicer than Bariloche which may have to do with the economy of Brazil vs Argentina. There were several branches of the same chocolate stores and we were able to try samples at a few of them. They were more bitter than I am used to probably because they have more cacao and less sugar, I am guessing. 

There was a build-a-bear type store that the kids got dreamy over. 

I had to use an ATM because the campground only took cash. 

We bought some chocolate at Florybal, one of the many famous places. We ended up Lugano and it was probably the nicest or more expensive looking places and had a hot chocolate and cold chocolate. The drinks were very thick and the cold drink was almost like jello chocolate pudding. We couldn't finish the drinks. Too much chocolate.

We bought some more chocolate and went to a grocery store to look for goiabada, the guava jelly we had at the fondue restaurant but no luck. We found some banana jelly which was not as good. We took an Uber back to the campground and made mini burgers for the kids out of meatballs.