You might have caught our little Valentine's Day guide to the perfect cozy and casual date and might have guessed our date of choice is one spent inside, being cozy and doing something cute and creative together and this is exactly what we planned for Valentine's Day this year - nothing too fancy, just the two of us spending some quality time together doing the things that we are most comfortable doing (otherwise known as eating, cuddling, eating and laughing... and eating again).
I'm actually quite the fan of V-Day, I love the whole concept of celebrating love and all the cards, chocolates, gifts of the season. It might be a superficial date, but it's just super cute! This is the first Valentine's Day documented on Miel Café so far, so I've snapped away to bring you a hour by hour (sort of) reportage of a very cozy day.
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8.30 am - I woke up to an email that some special one bought me a tree as gift for Valentine's Day! I received a lovely cocoa tree based in Haiti from Treedom and that's probably the cutest gift I ever had! This together with others (and I might add - writing a blog post about lingerie just a few days before the date has totally rewarded!).
11.00am - We slept in until super late and spent a big amount of time dressing up and deciding what to do - it was kind of an impromptu day. We decided to head over to our favourite bakery for breakfast: there's something special about their cappuccino that is always sweet enough even with the tiniest amount of sugar, not mentioning that velvety foam... and their cream croissants are always our first choice!
We spent the rest of the morning chatting at our table, observing the rain outside and picking up some heart-shaped cookie cutters for our V-Day romantic baking session!
2.00pm - I dusted off my favourite and trusted brownies recipe (and decided it was kind of a-okay to be less healthy during V-Day) and we baked delicious heart-shaped treats to eat together later! Baking together is definitely my favourite thing ever, I just love spending some quality time with my favourite person doing one of my favourite things!
5.00pm - We installed and put together a romantic and super cozy (and very fancy too!) Italian themed picnic inside (since the weather wasn't keen in letting us enjoy it outside). This was probably my favourite part of the day! We had a fancy bubbly Italian Prosecco, as well as delicious Baci Perugina (probably my favourite truffles for this time of the year and definitely an Italian V-Day signature chocolate that we both love) and spent the time enjoying the bubbles and reading the chocolate quotes at the light of a beautiful Millefiori candle that filled up the room with a sublime floral scent.
8pm - To finish off the day the Italian way, we baked homemade pizza! We love Saturdays because it's pizza time and we spend a good amount of the afternoon at kneading a few pizza doughs together and this year V-Day happened to be on a Saturday, that meant it was just right (maybe not too fancy, but right) to eat our favourite food on the date. I admit I was quite tempted to make heart-shaped pizza too, but I was already exhausted by that time!
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The whole day was quite improvised but turned out to be the most beautiful and thoughtless day we had in a while. However my favourite part of the day, the picnic, was lovingly hosted by Inntravel, a holiday company that specialises in slow holidays, ones to take the lesser-taken paths, and that has some great holiday offerings over here in Italy too, by very kindly treating us to a rich Valentine's hamper filled with Italian wine, chocolates and a beautiful candle as part of their #LoveFromItaly campaign, to which, being Italian and a lover of the date of love, I was so excited to take part of! Not only this, they're also so kind to treat one of my readers to a £50 Carluccio's voucher for you to have a chance to spend a romantic time and let you be inspired by Italy as much as we did on February 14th this year!
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I'd love to know - how was your Valentine's Day? How did you spend it? I've loved your date ideas from my latest V-Day post! x
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