St. Valentine's Decade

Red Baron still remembers those years when we had neither Halloween nor Valentine's Day in Germany. Last Friday, thanks to globalization and commerce - any day is good for selling - department stores and flower shops made a good deal here in Freiburg.

That, however, is nothing to what happened in Strasbourg last week. On the other side of the Rhine, the French adopted the American feast days earlier than the Germans and developed St. Valentine's Day even more faithful to their slogan: En France, nous n'avons pas de pétrole, mais nous avons des idées! (In France, we have no oil but ideas!). Voilà, here comes the St. Valentine's Decade (No, not ten years but ten days).



And what do my American friends who invented Slow Food think about the pleasures of a slow party?

Both photos ©www.strasbourg-monamour.eu

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