Chocolate is better than men because… we’ve all seen those posters and mugs.
But sometimes it goes wrong.
Such as with the branding you sometimes get with sweets and chocolate.
My trip to Bosnia & Herzegovina with Marian Pilgrimages http://www.marian.ie gave so much, an audience with Our Lady in Medjugorje, a history lesson in Sarajevo.
And an insight into the peoples of this region, the crossroads of East and West in the Balkans.
In Medge they are Croatians with the only thing vying for space with Our Lady in the shops Croatian flags and football tops. Medjugorje, what’s your story?
My old mucker from university, Davor, a Croatian-Scot was my first introduction to them.
But I have come to know them better through Croatia Tours http://www.croatia.ie on the River Liffey in Dublin…
And joining them before the World Cup final against France for wine and lunch (it was never a penalty!)
Thankfully there was none of the chocolate I found in a petrol station on the way to the airport in Split.
There’s just no amount of thumbs-up with Victorian dandy that makes this right.
I’m guessing they’re lozenges but I put them back on the shelf.
I can’t imagine for a minute that they meant any harm but…
Then there are those brand gaffes where there’s just been no quality control.
Such as this chocolate bar http://www.isischocolates.be in Brussels Airport on my way back from my tour of the World War I Battlefields… In Flanders fields.
With GTI The Group Travel Specialists www.gtitravel.ie.
Now the sentiment is right and before you think it’s cashing in on the War just remember that chocolate would have been a treat for the Tommies.
No, it’s just the acronym for the people who make it… ISIS!
It’s always an awkward one here, the quality control at TravelTravelTravel.
What to put in and what to leave out.
I think I’m on safe ground here though with this one which is a particular delicacy for Salzburgers.
And it was something that the indomitable Mrs M was particularly taken with…
Mozart’s Balls, or Mozartkugel http://www.mozartkugel.at on a Top Flight http://www.topflight.ie skiing trip to Austria… Soll Mates.
Send me the branding that goes wrong..
And in the Travel blog that brings you the best in toilet humour more to add to the annals of… https://jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/2019/10/01/austrian-toilet-humour/
And https://jimmurtytraveltraveltravel.com/2019/10/03/__trashed/. Look out for the name of the Bavarian tunnel I never saw coming… coming soon along the tracks.
It would make Our Lady blush!
