I found on Askmen an usefull decalogue about Valentine’s day myths.
I will give you an advice at day… a tip a day keeps marital crisis away!

Myth #1

It’s okay to skip Valentine’s Day

Why this is false: She might realize that it’s a hyped-up holiday, but that won’t get you off the hook completely.
She’ll see her friends going on dates and wonder why you aren’t stepping up to the plate.

What to do instead: You can keep Valentine’s Day low-key and celebrate it in your own way.
Plan an activity that you both enjoy and declare it your own celebration — like ice skating, tobogganing or hiking. Any activity that you do together will show her that you gave the day some thought.

to be continued…

There’s another Florence.

Not the one of the Dome Square, full of tourists, cameras and coloured guide’s umbrellas.
Nor the one of the glamour night discos, with its lights and music.
It’s the old traditions’ Florence, the one which have been lightly touched by the mass tourism and have preserved the charm of an antique place, with its voices and perfumes and so on…

The “Tripperia il magazzino” is “that” type of place: everything is the real Florence.
It’s a little tavern-restaurant-wine bar that have tripe as its specialty, and you can find it everywhere in the menu, together with lampredotto (tripe cooked with vegetables, oil and pepper) and game like rabbit or wild boar cooked with pappardelle.
Very wide is also the choice of desserts, including typical cantuccini (almond cookies) with vinsanto.
Luca is the chef and his mother Rosita helps him in the kitchen, while Alessandro is the sommelier: a nice family contest!
The restaurant is placed in Piazza della Passera: a nice little square in the very centre of Oltrarno Florence, where, during the summer, there are concerts and theatre shows.

I think that experience Florence life means also eating in such a place and transported by the way of being of real Florentines.

Italian version.