it is february 14, and since a week or 2/3 shops have been accumulating hearts. heart pillows, candy, balloons.. whatever you can shape into a heart and turn pink or red. even, people at work seriously mentioned valentine's day, and this morning the guy that sells newspapers suddenly also had a lot of flowers for sale. not that pretty bouquets for a lot of money.. even my work-related email was sending me some offer that you could buy a bunch of roses (10 or 12) on discount as a hospital employee (now for 60 dollars instead of 70, or something like that).
ah, and not to forget; we saw in the supermarket 2 steaks placed into a red heartshaped container, like 2 halves of a heart. how does that work? man buys that for his woman, brings it home and says "here, 2 steaks" and off she goes, into the kitchen?! hmmm, a little old-fashioned.... next to the meat was a heart-shaped container with prawns and some greens, and around that a lot of chocolate-covered things like strawberries, cookies, an enormous cake. eeehmm? so toys are not allowed with food, but raw meat can be kept in the same place as sweets?
hmmm. another in the category "things i miss", a huge bunch of flowers from the market in utrecht. 40 or even 60 roses, or whatever other beautiful flower you like for only 5 euros!!
ah, and the photo was in haarlem. i especially liked the sign "due to freezing temperatures, flower sale inside"
5 comments:
belle photo de nuit
Ah yes, Valentine, another hype we must have to deal with, or not. People who never buy flowers are suddenly walking with a rose, so romantic. All shops have to do something with this item, as you writes about the meat and the candy. Ha, ha, ha that is so funny.
flowers for everybody (smells so good)
really good shot. in real it looked cooler but it's a great capture
:) thanks all!
yes, V-day becomes more important in the netherlands too, it seems. or rather, more abused by shops and all.. someone here called it SAD-day; singels awareness day!! hihihihi...
ah, and yes, in real its always nicer. isnt that why people are so busy to capture that "real" with their camera... ? and buy superexpensive equipment. and then indeed have the perfect pic to show to everyone, but themselves actually never saw how it looked in real, as they were too busy capturing the real. but then again, then they dont need to, since... blablbalbla..lets get back to my fellowship application... :(
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