Five fun ways to celebrate your love for Valentine’s Day

You don’t have to spend Valentine’s in a restaurant paying a fortune for food when you could be having real fun with another activity, writes Paula Burns.

IT IS the most clichéd time of the year. As the cynics say, it’s a holiday made by Hallmark. We’ve been conditioned to think that this is the night where we should sit across from each other in a packed restaurant under a pressurised time schedule because the table needs to be turned at least five times.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. Valentine’s is a day marked out on the calendar where love is supposed to be celebrated. Every couple’s love is different from those just starting out to the couple married 50 years. This is the year to let your Valentine’s date reflect that. Take the time out to do something a little unique that you will both enjoy and have a ton of fun.