No valentine for you

Since it's pretty much a Hallmark holiday, neither of us have ever been big on Valentine's Day (no, really--it's not just a guy thing for us!). It's certainly easy to be a curmudgeon about it here because other than a few florists, Basel is all about Fasnacht this week. You could walk around downtown and really not notice any big red hearts, Valentine cards, heart-shaped balloons, etc. I'm sure they're there somewhere, but you'd be so busy looking at all the funny masks that you'd be hard-pressed to notice anything else.