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World Wide Webbs 2024
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- Jul 8, 2024
- ☀️ 25 °C
- Altitude: 429 m
- Switzerland Zurich Kilchberg (ZH)Kilchberg / Schooren Seebad Kilchberg 47.318316, 8.55103347°19’6” N 8°33’4” E
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Day 24
Lindt Chocolate Factory
July 8, 2024 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
There were no Golden Tickets or boys named Charley but there was plenty of chocolate as we walked through the doors of one of the most prestigious chocolate factories of Europe. Greeted by the largest chocolate fountain in the world, our host guided us through their museum as we enjoyed (to varying degrees) spoonfuls of melted chocolate and handfuls of different flavours.
While waiting for the ferry to take us to the factory we were entertained by a flock of swans on the lake.Read more
Traveler Wow! Chocolate heaven! It's so interesting as Lindt chocolate is soooo delicious! XV ❤️
7/13/24Reply
Webb Family Yum, yum. Strawberry cheesecake, mint, pistachio, orange, hazelnut and so on.
7/15/24Reply
Traveler Did you pack a lint brush? 💁
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Avoiding the heat EU tour
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- Oct 25, 2023, 10:36 AM
- ⛅ 11 °C
- Altitude: 430 m
- Switzerland Zurich Kilchberg (ZH)Kilchberg / Schooren Seebad Kilchberg 47.318044, 8.55133147°19’5” N 8°33’5” E
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Day 52
Chocolate wonderland
October 25, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Today we awoke and enjoyed our hostel's included breakfast of toast. We then headed to the bus stop so we could get to our main attraction of the day - The Lindt museum.

Walking towards the building you could actually smell the Chocolate aroma outside, it was beautiful. We arrived at the holy land 30 minutes before our tour was to start, so we ventured into the cafe to enjoy a hot chocolate and a pretzel. Once we were deemed appropriate to enter we consumed at minimum a kilo of liquid and block chocolate each, while ignoring the history so we could eat even more.

After we filled a ziplock bag with Lindt balls in which we were only allowed to take 1 each, we decided to walk the hour and a half back to the city.

We lucked out and it barely rained at all today, so walking back along Zurich lake was slightly chilly and absolutely beautiful.

We stopped in at the local Lidl for a snack before doing some more venturing around the town before coming back to the Lidl to buy a salad mix for dinner.

After sitting in the accommodation and chatting to our bunk mates and relaxing for a while we headed out for a late night walk. Once we got back we ate our budget dinner with stolen salt and pepper packets before retiring for the night.

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Traveler Yum
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Traveler Good old Lidl, just what you need to wash down all that choccie
10/25/23Reply
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Switzerland & France
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- Oct 16, 2023, 1:07 PM
- ⛅ 50 °F
- Altitude: 1,375 ft
- Switzerland Zurich Kilchberg (ZH)Kilchberg / Schooren Seebad Kilchberg 47.318335, 8.55191447°19’6” N 8°33’7” E
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Lindt Home of Chocolate
October 16, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 50 °F
The second half of our tour included a cruise on Lake Zurich and a tour of the Lindt chocolate factory in Kilchberg. The museum featured the history of chocolate production in Switzerland and lots of free samples.Read more
❤❤ [SUSAN ST GEORGE]
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Interrailing 2024
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- Aug 21, 2024, 10:39 AM
- ☁️ 18 °C
- Altitude: 428 m
- Switzerland Zurich Kilchberg (ZH)Kilchberg / Schooren Seebad Kilchberg 47.31843, 8.55130347°19’6” N 8°33’5” E
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Master Chocolatier
August 21, 2024 in Switzerland ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C
A slightly lazy start today before packing our bags and heading to Zürich station to put our bags in a locker whilst we went to the Lindt factory.

Grabbing a croissant and coffee from miró coffee underneath Zürich station we boarded the S24 to Kilchberg. I actually made a mistake with our interrail passes at this point thinking that the S24 wouldn't be included so we bought tickets - turns out it would have been - whoops!

A 12 minute train ride, and 10 minute walk later we arrived at Lindt Home of Chocolate - the largest chocolate museum in Switzerland.

It was very busy so I’m glad I booked our tickets in advance. The museum was very detailed talking through the growing, harvesting and production process, as well as a really interesting exhibition on the future of chocolate both in terms of sustainability but also the use of artificial intelligence.

During the tour you get a chance to sample liquid dark, milk and white chocolate 🤤 and also some freshly made chocolate bars, encouraging you to properly taste before letting you know what the flavour was.

At the end of the tour you can go through the shop, I didn’t get anything but they must make an absolute killing given the amount some tourists were buying!

I know this is the second chocolate museum of the trip, but both were really good and told slightly different stories.Read more
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Traveler Central Europe Part 2, 2024
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- Apr 29, 2024, 10:38 AM
- ⛅ 12 °C
- Altitude: 1,407 ft
- Switzerland Zurich Kilchberg (ZH)Kilchberg / Schooren Seebad Kilchberg 47.318219, 8.55117547°19’6” N 8°33’4” E
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Kilchberg & Lindt Home of Chocolate
April 29, 2024 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
After descending Uetliberg I headed over to Kilchberg for a quick breakfast of Schinkengipfeli - a croissant stuffed with pork 🥐 which felt like a very sophisticated Swiss sausage roll. Following that, I headed over to today's main event - a tour of the Lindt Home of Chocolate experience.

The tour took us through the history of chocolate, how Switzerland became the chocolate capital of the world and the manufacturing process to create it, before finishing up with several opportunities to gorge on Lindt Lindors! I left feeling very satisfied, if slightly sick! 🍫

After finishing up in Kilchberg I decided to make the most of my Zurich transport card and headed back into the city by boat, crossing a pristinely pale blue Lake Zurich.Read more
Traveler Sounds like you’ve had a perfect Loz day! X
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Beautiful Switzerland
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- Sep 24, 2023, 11:49 AM
- ⛅ 57 °F
- Altitude: 1,404 ft
- Switzerland Zurich Kilchberg (ZH)Kilchberg / Schooren Seebad Kilchberg 47.318312, 8.5515247°19’6” N 8°33’5” E
Day 14
Lindt Chocolate & Lake Zurich
September 24, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ⛅ 57 °F
Sunday, in Zurich, the final day of our Swiss adventure.

We took the train to Kilchberg for a tour of Lindt Chocolate. A boat ride on Lake Zurich brought us back to the city.

We had Swiss traditional food for lunch, sitting at an outdoor cafe by the river, people watching.

A sweet ending to an extraordinary trip.Read more
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East Grand Tour Switzerland
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- Aug 6, 2022, 11:30 AM
- ☁️ 16 °C
- Altitude: 429 m
- Switzerland Zurich Kilchberg (ZH)Kilchberg / Schooren Seebad Kilchberg 47.318279, 8.55104347°19’6” N 8°33’4” E
Day 11
Lindt Museum Zürich
August 6, 2022 in Switzerland ⋅ ☁️ 16 °C
Heute ist leider schon der letzte Tag an dem wir wieder unsere Heimreise antreten werden. Wir haben noch Tickets für das Lindt Museum ergattert was gar nicht so einfach war, dass Museum scheint sehr beliebt zu sein.
Wir fuhren erst zu dem Lindt Outlet um noch einwenig einzukaufen und anschließend ins Museum daneben. Am Anfang ging der Rundgang von den Kakaoplantagen in Ghana los über die Entdeckung der Schokolade und wie sie nach Europa kam, allerdings mit Zucker versüßt und erst für Adelige und vermögende Menschen später auch für das Bürgertum. Weiter ging es vorbei an drei Schokobrunnen wo wir Vollmilch-, Zartbitter- und weiße Schokolade mit Löffeln probieren konnten. Dann ging es an kleinen Automaten vorbei wo verschiedene kleine Schokoladendstückchen rauskamen zum probieren. Anschließend durfte man fertige Schokoladenbonbons probieren von unterschiedlichen Sorten. Dann hat man noch bei der realen Produktion in die Fabrik durch Glasfenster reinschauen können und bei Bedarf auch für fertige Probierprodukte anstehen können. Für nur 16€ war es wirklich noch ein schöner Abschluss mit leckerer Lindtverkostung.Read more
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- Jun 20, 2023, 5:46 PM
- ☁️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 424 m
- Switzerland Zurich Kilchberg (ZH)Kilchberg / Schooren Seebad Kilchberg 47.318333, 8.55166747°19’6” N 8°33’6” E
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Day 11
Chocolate loot
June 20, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
They said taste one of each...and feel free to take one of your fav with you 😅 didn't realize how much my bag was consuming 🍫
Traveler Yummo
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Traveler Ha ha my favorite place
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- Jun 20, 2023, 4:15 PM
- ☁️ 30 °C
- Altitude: 424 m
- Switzerland Zurich Kilchberg (ZH)Kilchberg / Schooren Seebad Kilchberg 47.318333, 8.55166747°19’6” N 8°33’6” E
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Day 11
Lindt Factory
June 20, 2023 in Switzerland ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
So much chocolate consumed! Melted chocolate on tap, automatic chocolate dispensers, exclusive tastings of flavours 🍫🍫
Traveler Did ya feel like Willy wonka at the chocolate factory
6/21/23Reply
Traveler Hahah literally did!!
6/21/23Reply
Traveler From nana I hope you had a chocolate for me xx
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Zürich 2024 ❤️🇨🇭
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- Dec 1, 2024, 2:00 PM
- ☀️ 6 °C
- Altitude: 427 m
- Switzerland Zurich Kilchberg (ZH)Kilchberg / Schooren Seebad Kilchberg 47.318502, 8.55088847°19’7” N 8°33’3” E
Day 3
Lindt Chocolate Museum 🍫
December 1, 2024 in Switzerland ⋅ ☀️ 6 °C
Chocolate everywhere 😍 We visted the Lindt Chocolate Museum. Here we learned a lot about the right preparation, the history of chocolate and had the possibility to try as much as we want 🍫😍
Schokolade ist Glück, dass man essen kann....😜 [Olaf]
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