Places You Should Know...the Legendary Hotel Toblerone
In its day, there was nothing to rival it. It was said that it had not been constructed of bricks and mortar, wood and stone, but concocted, from nougat and icing sugar; that it was a confection, hence the name. In the Bar au Chocolat, that strange bar in the lobby, attended to by a staff that was almost certainly mad, customers came and went, and found themselves drawn back, again and again. And again. Some, it was said, never left. But you know, people say things. I was one of those customers, looking to escape the grey, ordinary life of the contemporary world outside, with its digital this-and-that. Exchanging that world for the more magical one within the walls of that palace, that hotel… well...what can I say? The hard, modern immediacy of the world outside its brass-and-glass doors was hard to remember once one was inside, which suited me; I’ve always been considered old-fashioned. The Toblerone was entirely analog, olde-worlde . Maybe the phrase I’m seeking is outs