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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Annalisa Barbieri

Notes on chocolate: sometimes the best things are found close to home

Exquisite variations: bars from Pump Street.
Exquisite variations: bars from Pump Street. Photograph: Matthew Hague

Perhaps it was best I didn’t find any chocolate on my recent trip to Zakynthos (not the party part of the island as that life is behind me). The heat was intense – 39C at certain times, in certain places – making me sweat so profusely I looked like a smuggler trying to clear customs. I eyed up the Toblerone at the airport (I always eye up Toblerones in airports), but resisted. As for the uniform for the flight home, I didn’t get the memo: pastel neck pillows, seersucker shorts, cami tops and eyelashes that looked like plough trucks.

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