Love outside the box

Let me guess... restaurant date, maybe a movie, a nice walk around the city. That’s your yearly Valentine's plan, right? Whether you are in a relationship or not, this day comes with a certain pressure: to do something special. But maybe the problem isn’t the plans themselves, but how predictable we’ve made them. If you want to give a twist to your Valentine’s Day this year, we’ve got your back!

Challenge your love language

Looking to understand your partner’s needs better? Start the day by switching your love language with them and seeing what changes.  Sometimes, when love styles differ, it’s easy for affection to get lost in translation. With this experiment, you will get the chance to understand each other’s needs better and how both of you feel when they are not met.

City side quests

Forget your usual evening walk. How about a scavenger hunt with your own rules? Make it your mission to take as many pictures as possible of things you would never bring on a first date, something ugly but charming for some reason, something that reminds you of the other person, questionable places that look fun.  Improvise and adapt to your liking. You can always add more side quests depending on how wild you want your walk to get.

Wrong answers only - museum edition

You can do this at any museum of your choice, but for a unique version, pick a crazy one to visit. Something so unusual that will make you question your choice. Play art critiques or just make up stories for each piece, wrong answers only. Get silly and let your imagination wonder.  In Amsterdam, you’ll find ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not’, also called “Amsterdam’s weirdest museum”. It’s four floors of weird and wonderful oddities, interactive exhibits and bizarre objects that defy belief - fun, strange and endlessly surprising. (Granada-  Parque de las Ciencias, Madrid: Museo de las ilusiones)

Kitchen travel

Love staying at home? No worries. Pick a dish from a country you’ve never visited and cook it. To make it more entertaining, add rules such as each of you picks an ingredient/spice that the other person must use, use accents from each country when talking with each other, create a fake backstory for your dish. Up for leveling this up?  Read the recipe only once and cook it from memory. For sure nothing boring can come out from a night like this.

A movie you can taste

Do you ever crave the food characters eat on screen? Take movie night further by turning it into a sensory experience. Beforehand, research the foods featured in the film and recreate or order them. As each scene appears, you eat what the characters are eating, syncing taste with visuals and turning the movie into a multi-sense event. If the movie you’ve picked doesn’t have food in it, pick something based on the vibe.

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