After Halloween, I wondered on the blog whether the chocolatiers would find something else to decorate their windows with before Christmas. Well the answer is a very definite yes! Had I known my history, it would have been a silly question. This weekend the Genevois will be celebrating their defeat of the invading French army and the story goes that a woman throw her pot of hot vegetable soup over the invading troops and it has become tradition for families buy these chocolate pots and smash them in celebration! There is a better explanation here.
I took this photo very quickly on Tuesday evening. I was hoping to get a better one later in the week in my favourite chocolatier but that night with a cough and a splutter, a bug announced it's presence so drawing and photography have come to a temporary halt. Not that I'm very ill, but it seems like an appropriate time to take a bit of a break for a few days. I came across some amazing blogs in the last week or so and found them very inspiring. I find it's good to stop and take stock every now and then, to think instead of do.
6 comments:
Hope to feel better in short order! Those chocolate pots... I could live with a holiday like that!
Is it true that you need an excuse?
strange campers the swiss, I wouldn't survive a week, (over eating)
Thanks r.e., it's just a sore throat really. Nothing that a pot of chocolate can't cure!
No, you don't Mattias, I was just trying to sound good!
YUMMMYYYY!!!! NOW THAT IS ONE SWEEETTTT WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope you feel better too. And I wanted to tell you that my grandparents were Swiss and my mom lived there as a little girl. I never heard about the pot story so you are filling in some gaps for me. I love seeing the pix of where you are living. You have knocked off some of my Swiss idealsm though: the place is SO regulated!!!!!That might just drive me bonkers. But the peace and quiet would be lovely.
Lin, I just know you would enjoy the festival! :)
Lindsay, I hope I haven't put you off Switzerland! I must say I don't really notice that it is over regulated, just well run and civilsed (certainly compared with the UK where crime is rampant in the cities). Maybe having just come from Kuwait which has got itself completely tangled in red tape has made me immune!
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