14 date ideas for when you’re going through a tough time

It is cold.

No shit.

But obviously the cold won’t stop you from fishing.

Where to organize a date in winter ?

In summer we meet “around a drink”, on the beach, in the park and other nonsense. But what to do in winter? Admit it’s a little more complicated.

1. A date at home

First we remember that it is not necessary to take the person somewhere, you can just go out at home made with hot chocolate, popcorn and movies.

2. A date at the cinema

You can also go to the cinema. Classic, but often effective.

3. A date at the ice rink

This way, you can do the “ I’m teaching you how to skate but it’s really just an excuse to hold your hand/waist “.

4. Go to a concert

Since these are anti-cold tactics, it is best if the concert is indoors. But in the worst case scenario you will dance, so it will warm you up!

5. An afternoon of cooking

Invite the person to cook a comforting snack or meal, which you can then enjoy.

If you’re stuck for ideas, our “recipes” tag is full of them, like this crispy and tender orange tofu, this decadent squash with roasted camembert, or these very comforting leeks with reblochon.

6. Create a escape game

Invite two or three more friends and train yours date on a wonderful adventure.

Then unfortunately you make your friends have an obligation immediately after your triumphant exit.

Now that the ice has been broken thanks to the game, you find yourself face to face with your person and logically quite at ease.

7. Go to the amusement park

Yes, you’ll have to brave the cold to go to the fair, but if you layer like an onion, you should survive.

In any case, you will warm up by sharing the same cone of roasted chestnuts, hand in hand.

Finally, eat the chestnuts first, THEN hold your hands. Or otherwise. But not at the same time because otherwise it will become a complex physical experience.

8. An afternoon or evening of video games

Simply invite this person to your house (or invite yourself to their house, depending on who has a console) and break it up kindly has Mario Kart.

This is a good basis for a potential relationship.

9. A meeting in the library

Meet the human of your choice in a library, where you can read unlikely but interesting things together like Calvin and Hobbes.

10. A food trip

Bring your own date in an afternoon at the Chocolate Fair, in the Valrhona factory or in any other place as unusual as it is delicious!

11. An afternoon thrift shop

Suggest the person in question meet at a big thrift store where you can try on all kinds of crazy, cheap, hilarious, and, ideally, not-all-good-together clothes.

12. Take a class together

Try something new at the same time, it could potentially provoke a laugh. A cooking class, for example, yoga, climbing, pole dancing, voguing or even roller skating!

13. Coffee at a cat cafe

Go have coffee with friends fluffyin a cat cafe!

Contact with animals has been proven to relieve stress and produce dopamine, the happiness hormone. It seems to be an effective way to get yourself in the right conditions for a first time date !

14. A cultural afternoon

Go to a museum that no one is interested in, like the doorknob museum (no need for Google, it doesn’t exist), and spend hours there reading all the information and talking to the curators who are happy to finally have a visitor.

You will be bound by this unique and unusual moment.

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