The Chocolate House

We stumbled upon The Chocolate House on a rainy windy afternon last Autumn. It was a good discovery! It is a lovely cozy go-to place for chilling out with warm drinks, chocolates, cakes and pastries. It is my husband's temporary alternative to the Starbucks experience that he has been longing for ever since we came here to Luxembourg.

The place is known for their hot CHOCspoons - they are a chocolate cubes of different flavors that come with a wooden spoon. The chocolate cube is stirred in a mug of hot milk that becomes a flavored chocolate drink when the chocolate cube melts. The CHOCspoons are very comforting during cold Autumn and Winter days.

For spring, they have a number of cold concoctions to cool down their visitors on a warm day. Check out what we had:

ChocoLoco - 1 slice of brownie with 3 scoops of chocolate ice cream (but I changed mine to vanilla) with cream and chocolate bits



Kids Only - 3 scoops of ice cream (vanilla and strawberry) with cream, smarties, and candy sprinkles





Stawberry Tarte - one of the cake selections for the day.





For me, their hotchocspoons are still their best offers.

CeCiL - Cercle Cite' Les salons de la ville

The sunshine and blooms that spring brings makes me itching to go out and visit places (much to the dismay of my boys who would rather stay at home and play Wii or just chill out). Last Saturday, there were three events in the city: The British Ladies' Car Boot Sale, the Reopening of the Cercle Municipal, and the Annual Duck Race. I wanted to go to all of them! Reality check: that was not possible with two children in tow.

I was successful in convincing my boys to go see the newly renovated Cercle Municipal. When we arrived in Luxembourg a year ago, it was under renovation (apparently, it has been so for five years already)that's why I was curious to see it. and here are snippets of what we saw and did there:


The colorful mural that featured artworks from children visitors greeted everyone



  

The Grande Salle - four musicians were playing the saxophone. They are the Saxitude.

They caught Polo's attention





Now, we're watching an interpretative dance number from students from the Dance Atmosphere school.
Nicolo is performing his own version.



The Grande Salle's chandelier.



The Grande Salle's window







 

Every thirty minutes or so, a muse in red holding a red umbrella slowly turned to the tune of a musical box.

At the end, we got a chance to dress up for a free souvenir photo in the Salle de reunion...

... Polo had barbapapa (that's french for cotton candy)

... and Nicolo brought home a balloon. :)