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Well...last night wasn't as cold as the night before - maybe the beer helped to warm us up, plus we slept with the towels on top of the duvet to try and keep a bit more heat in!
After a bit of a lie-in, we drove into town towards what we'd been told was an area with free parking. As usual, we drove round for ages, not sure where we could park, although there were lots of cars on the streets around the industrial estate we were in! We eventually found a place near the harbour that looked OK and there was another campervan there, so we parked up!
We walked into town, excited about our visit to Cadbury World, where we were booked onto the 12pm tour. Inside, we were shown into a room where we watched a DVD about the history of Cadbury's while eating the first of our free chocolate bars - a chocolate fish! This was on that we don't sell in the UK - NZ seems to have lots of varieties of Cadbury's that we've never had - not fair! Our tour guide then gave us our hairnets (yes, we all had to wear them, and ther were a few men with beards who had to wear a beard 'net', although they got an extra bar of chocolate at the end for putting up with it!) and our bags with some more free chocolate in - a banana flavoured one and a couple of others. Then we set off...we were shown where the production lines were, making cooking chocolate, Easter Eggs (already!) adn boxes of chocolates like Roses and Milk Tray. We also got to see how they make chocolate buttons in a special machine, and the guide told us that any rejects are sold to the local pig farms for food - lucky pigs! Lots of the chocolate is now processed and packed by giant machines with robotic arms, which can go much faster than peopole could, although we were told that the people didn't lose their jobs, they were all needed to operate the machines!
At teh end of the tour we were shown into the giant purple tower which holds the world's only chocolate waterfall - quite an impressive sight - thousands of litres of liqud dairy milk dropped from above our heads, through a huge chute and was then pumped back up to the top, ready for the next group coming in! As the guide said, it serves no practical purpose - it's purely there for the entertainment of us tourists! We also got a cup of liquid Dairy Milk and a spoon to eat it with - my favourite part of the tour. We stopped in the shop on the way out and bought a slab of Dairy Milk Rocky Road (another one we don't have in England but should!).
In the afternoon we had lunch in subway and visited the library for...you've guessed it...some free internet! Back at the campsite, we booked in for Saturday and Sunday this week (back for the next England game!) and managed to get ourselves upgraded to a powered site for the night for an extra $3! It was well worth it to have some heat and we spent most of the night in the van getting our $3's worth!
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