Cadbury Chocolate Factory

The smokestacks and purple buildings of the Cadbury Chocolate Factory are the stuff of a chocoholic, Willy Wonka-lover's dreams. Sometimes when I'm walking past the factory I smell the sweet scent of baking chocolate in the air- this may be just an olfactory halluciation, but I like to pretend that it's real.

We got to go visit the factory and although it wasn't quite like the factory in Roald Dahl's "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", it had it's high points. We didn't get to see the actual production floor, but we did get to see the chocolate waterfall that is housed in one of the purple towers. It's only to entertain visitors, but it was still magnificent...a roaring rush of melted chocolate that splattered the inside of the tower so that the railings and walls of the staircase that we were standing on had formed some stalagmite-like chocolate protrusions.

They also had the old Cadbury delivery cars...I wish they still delivered the chocolate in these, I would buy it all of the time.