Between blotch and blok

From The informer:

The Eurochocolat festival opened in Perugia last weekend with a chocolate Pinocchio modelled by a Pisan chocolate-maker as its centrepiece, reports Le Parisien. Roberto Benigni's film about the mendacious puppet has just opened in Italy, and visitors can even buy chocolate cones in the shape of his nose. An electrically-powered Fiat 500 has been entirely covered in chocolate, and a reproduction of the city's cathedral stands in the Sandro cafe.
"The problem with Italians is that they don't consider chocolate to be a food," Eugenio Guarducci, the founder and president and Eurochocolat, told reporters. The typical Italian eats only 3.2 kilos of it each year - less than half the European average. Mr Guarducci's brother Alberto, whose Perugia hotel is dedicated to the substance, is attempting to change that. The Etruscan Chocohotel serves delicacies such as cocoa crepes stuffed with Gorgonzola cheese and pork fillet with a chocolate crust.

The full story's at le parisien.

According to Le Monde it could be a good month for the Leonids:

Si de bonnes conditions sont réunies, le cru 2002 des Léonides devrait être exceptionnel. Cette pluie d'étoiles filantes se produit lorsque la Terre, dans sa course annuelle autour du Soleil, traverse un ou plusieurs nuages de poussières que la comète 55P/Tempel-Tuttle – qui passe dans la banlieue de notre planète tous les trente-trois ans environ – a abandonnés dans son sillage.