A definite "We're in Italy!" moment:

Bella Perugia! A little town in the foothills south of Florence with windy stone streets and a beautiful sun overhead. I'm leaning over the old city walls, looking into the surrounding valley of vineyards and olive groves, warmed by the cheery sun and very content. In fact, I am blissfully happy today, the day of the Chocolate Festival! O, Paradise on Earth! So much chocolate all over the place! There are at least 100 different chocolate companies with multiple stands all over the city. Chocolate of every and any kind you can imagine! Way more than just chocolate bars (although there are many of these, too, and filled with such sweet wonders of the land!) there's chocolate covered figs, chocolate biscotti, chocolate torte, chocolate on popcorn, chocolate spiced with peperoncini, chocolate crepes, chocolate of all sorts of shapes and sizes, chocolate art like delicate flowers, and there was this one display full of crafted and very real looking chocolate tools like pliers and espresso machines! There are even 3 men carving statues out of a block of huge chocolate (of course the spectators get to savour the chunks that the sculptors carve off!) and a car made completely out of chocolate! I stared incredulously as girls got their hair styled in elaborate updo's... painted all over in chocolate! I danced with an old man from Barbagia as I reminisced with him about my trip to Sardegna and struggled to pull apart some freshly made torrone. Happy carnival songs about "Cacao" and "ho mangiato molto cioccolato" permeate the air, and amidst the huge crowd I am walking with this giddy, foolish smile on my face because I have had a couple of cups of chocolate liquore and taken a ride on the giostra in the sun.