Valentine's Day

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In my country St Valentine's coincides with another holiday: it's the wine and wine makers' day. The tradition is to go to the vineyard to trim the vines and of course to drink wine. Most of the Bulgarians are orthodox and many people disregard St Val. as something "foreign", as something that comes to threaten our traditions. Still, a lot of people celebrate both holidays: we buy wine AND chocolate/love card and celebrate with the beloved ones.
If you are curious about our holiday: here's a video clip with dances, song and the traditional trimming.

Interesting!
Here in the workplace on our floor, tomorrow there's going to be an internal Valentine's bake sale at lunch...raise money for our work social club events but chance to socialize. I work in a business area that is evenly split among men and women across 120 employees (at least) at our location. Some of the men bring in stuff from stores, bakeries or bake cookies, etc. The function of our area is engineering, geospatial e-mapping, project management, etc. People do buy and it's very casual. It's become a minor annual event. But really just an excuse for us to socialize if we want.