National Geographic: Asian-Inspired Chocolate in Brussels

March 25, 2013

I spent a morning with chocolatier Laurent Gerbaud in Brussels and got to indulge all my fantasies of opening a chocolate shop in the wonderful country of Belgium. Here's more on National Geographic Urban Insider.

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So this is pretty much the best cake ever (Momofuku Cake). But also - THANK YOU to the best people ever for this lovely, wonderful, happy celebration and Virtuoso Life cover!!

Guess who just won Tourism Board of the Year and gave a speech that made me cry in front of 1,700 people?! Baby girl was kicking up a storm! Congrats @alexherrmannnyc + the amazing @myswitzerland team #virtuosotravel

Night at the Museum...the Neon Museum. Here, retro signs rest in peace after their bright, blinking lives come to an end on the Strip. Thanks for a fun media party @myswitzerland during the annual August #virtuosotravel trek to the Bellagio in Vegas, with 6,000+ travel friends. And happy birthday @jenniferleeflowers!!

I was in L.A. for about five minutes for my birthday (August 9) and reminded again that maybe in another life, I would have lived in this beautiful place with the best light and the best food (#salad). No trip is complete without a Shutters sunset!

Going through 14 years of travel photos for a project (because I have never had more energy in my life?!). What an amazing ride it’s been and will be. Take me back to #INDIA #tbt @stephaniesteinman @silkisehgal

Hey, thanks for changing my life @jackezon! Pressed Juicery’s vegan “fro-yo” made with water, dates, almonds, cacao, sea salt + almond butter drizzle on top.

We got home after a typically annoying travel day and found this in our Swiss Alp-sized mail pile. Made me cry because it was written to HER! My beloved sister @maggie.fitzsimmons - thank you!! You are still too far away in London. I know you will show her the ways of the world and everything I am deficient in (such as: “cool” music, super late nights out).

What a trip, before seismic change. ❤️ The most dog-friendly country ever.

The most spectacular view in the Engadine. That’s St. Moritz behind us. So I remember: cable car from Pont Muragl to Muottas Muragl, admire views from restaurant, hike panorama trail to Unterer Schafberg for lunch, hike to chairlift, have silent heart attack on chairlift, take down to Pontresina/“home.”

I love staying in one place for a full seven nights. Pontresina has a summer market every two weeks that brings everyone out. Stores stay open late. There is beer and burgers, a lot of wurst and cheese, and...this. A giant serve-yourself Haribo bar under a canopy. The classic gold bears are the best. 🐻

Hiking to a famous glacier before it doesn’t exist anymore. Signposts on the trail mark where it used to be by year - a real-life geography/global warming lesson (and it’s happening all over the Alps). #facts

Had a nice little swim here...#outofoffice #greathotels (but never really out of office because I love my industry x1000000000 in an obsessive kind of way)

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