Last Minute Valentine’s Idea: Go To Japan, Bathe In Chocolate

by Jonathon Morgan on

If you’re in love with a chocoholic, this may be your ticket never-ending bliss. Just in time for Valetine’s Day, one Japanese spa has created a new service: chocolate baths.

Revelers hop into water mixed with cacao and fragrant bath powders, to which staff add creamy chocolate — pouring it onto the bathers, who then…well…use it accordingly.

With recent research indicating that chocolate helps release “feel good” hormones — creating sensations commonly attributed to being in love, a dip in the chocolate bath might be just what you need to convince that reluctant partner to take the next step.

Or just use it as an aphrodisiac. The choice is yours.

Word for the Travel Wise (02/07/07)

by Adrienne Wilson on

Before puckering up to give your mister or misses a big smooch-a-roo next week, try practicing some of these foreign langs to woo them with over your candlelit dinner. I’m sure his or her corazon (heart) will melt like mantequilla (butter), so long as you stick to one foreign tongue and not two. Oh, and pick up the entire bill, don’t go Dutch. Got it?

Good.

Today I’m supplying you with a list of “I Love You’s” from around the globe:

  • Chinese – Wo ai ni
  • Croatian – Volim te
  • Dutch – Ik hou van je
  • French – Je t’aime
  • Polish – Kocham cie
  • Spanish – Te amo

For more ways to say the three word heart-racing sentence in other languages visit this NY Public Library page.

Photo of the Day (2/7/07)

by Adrienne Wilson on

Since we’ve committed the day to helping you get your act together for the big V-day next week, I went in search for a friendly photo reminder of what you could get your sweet. The idea is simple: flowers. This photo was captured by londonsir well after purchasing hours in London. London Flowers is the name of the shop window in question and as one might guess love is the flowers. It’s all about the flowers, but if it were up to me I’d prefer a trip to the London Flowers shop for a first-hand look at the window display. That being said I guess I’m just greedy.

Anyhow, great job londonsir for dropping this lovely shot into your Flickr photo stream.