Valentine’s Day Shaken and Stirred in New York, London, Cape Town and Colombo!

Fit for rocking romance – the Tudor Room at the Gore Hotel in London.

Saint Valentine was a third century saint associated with the tradition of courtly love.  Courtly love was practised in secret by the high born.  It was not generally practised between husband and wife.  Valentine’s Day was essentially a celebration of doing the dirty with someone you are not married to.  Today’s sanitised version is all about Hallmark cards, long stemmed roses and marital coitus.  Although they had poor pre natal care and sometimes got martyred, I think our ancestors probably had more fun on Valentine’s Day…

What is inevitable however, is that you will get in trouble if you don’t plan to do something romantic with your number one lady or main squeeze this Friday.   Here are a few suggestions covering my favourite cities.   A big thank you to my co-contributors.  I hope…

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