Italian Family Vacation: Post-Cruise

We didn't dock in Savona until 10am and still had to get our passports returned (Costa collected all non-European passports) and pick up our luggage and retrieve our car from parking so we didn't have high hopes of getting on the road quickly.  So when had the car packed the kids set for the drive and  were driving away at 11:15 I was impressed.

We took a slightly different route home so we could stop at the Camille Bloch outlet store in Switzerland.  In Switzerland you pay 40 euros for a year pass to use all their road, then there are 2 tunnels that you have to pay an additional fee to use.  We'd never hit one of those tunnels until now.  It ended up costing us a whooping 25 Euros to go one way through that tunnel.  Crazy!  Through our time in Europe we've learned when you've hit the unexpected, there is nothing you can really do so just laugh it off :).

After driving through some beautiful scenery filled with picturesque towns and garden plots set right into the steep mountainside, we made it to the chocolate outlet an hour before closing.  The lady working was very kind.  She kept opening up new bars for us to try and even gave us two free chocolate crescents (the chocolate middle was one of their chocolate bars...amazing).  I got quite the stash; Mainly Milk Chocolate Ragusa but I also mixed it up with some Torino (same as Ragusa but minus the hazelnuts), Swiss miniatures and just a few dark chocolate of each variety.  We also let Kevin and Kherington pick out one each.

I'm sure some of the chocolate will make it's way back to Seattle in a couple weeks along with the Belgium stash I've been compiling.