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In love, in Paris but…out of money? No need to stress out. Fancy restaurants, elegant bars and pricey hotels are so 2008, anyway. After all, neither are you a married couple, nor ready to settle down (and even if you are -well bon courage- you will still enjoy our alternative for the Valentine’s). Before reading on, note that this suggestion will be equally enjoyable on Valentine’s as on any other day of the year.
No matter how much anti-Valentine’s you are, we all have a story when ‘we actually celebrated Valentine’s with this certain someone…’ or when we received an unexpected card or a small, suggestive present. Love it or hate it, this day exists and rather than being all ‘anti-valentine’s’ on online forums, our Facebook pages or in our texts to friends, we might as well embrace it and make it ‘fit’ in our definition of love, happiness and entertainment.
In Paris, there is this one thing that will make the 14th of February a romantic day both for you who are looking forward to that day and for you who wish it never existed.
Start your afternoon with a stroll through Paris, get a bottle of wine and stop at Pont des Arts. You’ll notice something beautiful: the whole bridge is full of hundreds of padlocks in all different shapes, colours and sizes, engraved with names of couples that promised endless love and tossed the key into the Seine River as a symbol of ‘commitment’ and everlasting love.
No need for a special outfit that will ‘amaze’ your partner and other cliché preparations: all you need is your partner, a padlock, a bottle of wine, some music (click here for recommended playlists for Valentine’s day) and the, free of charge but definitely worth paying for, breath-taking view to the Seine. If that isn’t the most perfect Valentine’s Day plan in the city of love, then I don’t know what is.
Happy Valentine’s!
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