Each year, on the anniversary of their first date, Fitt would buy stockings and chocolates, and repeat his journey to see the woman who would become his wife.
You can't visit Bruges without having a plate of moules marinière, follow it up with handmade chocolates and sipping a cup of hot chocolate at De Proeverie (Katelijnestraat 6) and trying one (or several) of the many beers at 't Brugs Beertje (Kemelstraat 5).
Back at Galal's chocolate shop, buoyed by the success of their Sisi franchise, the owners will soon unveil a new series of chocolates coated with the face of Anwar Sadat – Egypt's strongman during the 70s.
But what this chocolate shop-cum-patisserie-cum-cafe stocks is of high quality and divinely tempting, with chocolates sourced from the A-list of British chocolatiers and the odd overseas contender.
"We're debuting our first line of chocolate confections," says Mast. "We've been doing it sort of casually in Brooklyn, putting out a few bonbons and pastries here and there, but this is our first complete collection: small chocolates with various ganaches made with single-origin, single-estate cocoa beans".
"He's a man who'd buy your mum some chocolates," is as far as Dan will go on this particular topic.
The advantage here is that you can buy everything from paté and cheese to chocolates and decorations with your booze - the disadvantage is that if you want to buy anything more than a few bottles of each variety, it's sometimes difficult to find the cases corresponding to the bottles.
10 and don't forget......tin foil, clingfilm, string, muslin (for cooking the pudding), greaseproof paper, lemons, cream, brandy butter, chestnuts, parsnips, crackers, champagne, that extra special wine to have with the turkey, icing sugar, clementines and liqueur chocolates for Gran.
Between his schedules, he also found time to make dozens of commercials: for Black Magic chocolates, Danish bacon, coffee and numerous other products.
Customers at her plush boutique in central Cairo are offered a choice between chocolates coated with his face and others embossed with messages of adulation.
Galal's chocolates are just one manifestation of a huge wave of popular support for General Sisi, the intensity of which has not been matched in Egypt since the days of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the widely loved autocrat who ruled the country during the 50s and 60s.
