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Walk past the Advent calendars in the supermarket. If you want to sweeten the time until Christmas, open the door to actual chocolate indulgence.

From Belgium with Love

It’s a nice ritual to spend each of the days leading up to Christmas with a sweet surprise. A gift that will be appreciated by children and adults.

How would it be to find behind the doors one day an almond and hazelnut praline with fine Breton wafer, caramel with bourbon vanilla, surrounded by the best dark chocolate and another day a delicious little chocolate heart filled with fresh raspberry pulp and covered in white chocolate?

A golf ball made of hazelnut praliné, caramelized walnuts and creamy caramel could also be behind the door to sweeten not only the time until Christmas, but also the time until it finally goes back to the golf course.

Every day a new chocolate creation

These delicacies, among others, are behind the doors of the Advent calendar that Belgian chocolatier Pierre Marcolini has developed and sends out throughout Europe via his online store.

Many GloriousMe readers already know the name of the World Pastry Chef of 2020, whom we too have considered one of the best chocolatiers for years.

There is certainly someone you could introduce to his or her chocolate pleasure for the first time with the gift of an Advent calendar, opening the door to the best chocolate enjoyment for him or her.

Ever wrapped an Advent calendar?

The more unusual the shape and format, the more difficult and we wish good nerves in the long line at the post office counter.

The online store of the master chocolatier, on the other hand, sends the Pierre Marcolini Advent calendar directly to the address of the lucky recipient. You can choose the date of delivery and have a personally worded greeting message enclosed with the Advent calendar.

We tried it, of course, like everything we recommend, and received enthusiastic feedback from recipients last year for the sweet surprises from Brussels.

Therefore, our recommendation is: continue to walk coolly past the ever-growing towers of Advent calendars that have been waiting for you in the supermarket for several weeks now.

In most of the sweets behind the little doors there is little cocoa and little surprise, but a lot of fats and unlike the products of Pierre Marcolini, you have little transparency about the supply chains of most suppliers.

The alternatives

In the meantime, there are many Advent calendar offers, for example filled with small gin bottles, cosmetic products or with whisky rarities from distilleries that no longer exist.

In our view, however, this takes the original idea of sweetening the anticipation of Christmas a little ad absurdum and is more reminiscent of a hotel mini-bar or simple sales promotion in a Christmas costume.

An individually crafted Advent calendar can’t be beat for individuality, but it requires a lot of time, which is usually scarce in the year-end rush.

Behind the windows of the city

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On the other hand, a nice idea that can foster a sense of community on a street, large apartment complex or neighborhood is the window calendar.

All those who want to participate take over a specific day in the run-up to Christmas and decorate one of their windows with the corresponding number and an individual light decoration.

When it gets dark, you can see another brightly lit window from day to day, and coming home or taking an evening walk in the dark becomes an experience.

However, the window calendar requires a dedicated community manager to take care of the organization.

Wonderland

If you’d like to pamper yourself in the run-up to Christmas and save all the calories for Christmas, perhaps the new photo book “Wonderland” with fashion photographs by Annie Leibowitz would be an idea for the dark days of Advent.

The photographer, whose strength lies in the staging of personalities, with which she illuminates a rather unknown side of the person, is now represented by the renowned Hauser + Wirth gallery, which this year opened the interesting art center on the Isle de la Rey in the port of Menorca.

If you want to take a look at the video about the art center, you can find it here. Thus, during the long winter evenings, vacation plans can already be made for next summer to discover new things.

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