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Monday, February 14, 2005

Celebrating Valentine's Day in Saudi Arabia can be tough:

[The] religious police mobilize a few days before February 14, making the rounds of gift and flower shops.

It's like something out of 1984. I've been lucky enough to visit Saudi Arabia on a couple of occasions, and it's an intriguing and (for the most part) friendly country, but I can see where observing a Western, ostensibly Christian, holiday celebrating romantic love might be considered a tad radical. Still, when you need to go underground to buy a rose for your valentine, circumventing laws and risking heavy fines and detention - that's true love, baby. ¶ 09:06

Comments:

I don't really celebrate Valentine's Day. That said, I did have a date on sunday (with a guy I've been seeing for a few weeks) which kind of carried over into Monday... afternoon, so that sort of counts I guess. It's pretty cool to win an iPod on Valentine's Day though, which I did. Apple loves me.

# posted by RenegadeNZ : 10:46 AM

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