Doris Haider, Managing Director of Stadtmarketing & Tourismus GmbH St. Valentins, hopes that Andrei Makhow will be able to sacrifice a moment from his extensive work. The chef at the legendary “Café Pushkin” in Moscow, which serves the best beef stroganoff in the world, is one of the 450 addressees to whom the municipality is today sending postcards with a pink map of the world and the inscription “Love and Peace”. Like the other recipients, Makhow is asked to take a cell phone selfie in the kitchen, perhaps appropriately, and send it to the town’s email address as a valentine. There, the posts, which can also be video clips, are uploaded to Instagram, where any user can view them.
“We write to all Austrian embassies and all honorary consuls,” says Haider, “but we also looked for special addresses in the countries so that we didn’t just get official mail.” Of course, it is also appreciated when, for example, Gregory Berry, Austrian Honorary Consul in Port Moresby in Papua Guinea, comes up with something that he sends back as a Valentine’s Day greeting. Responses are also expected from the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech and the Bob Marley Museum in Kingston, Jamaica, when the postcards from St. Valentine arrive there. In addition, Haider has included a handful of global A-celebrities in the mailing list: Pope Francis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ursula von der Leyen, the highest representative of the EU, are among them. Otherwise, politics is left out.
In addition to the postcard campaign, the “Capital of Love” has a new city treat to offer for Valentine’s Day: Julia Kammerhuber, who grows herbs, flowers and vegetables (all organic), has cooked a hearty “Sugo Amore” to match the “Day of Love”. and invigorating “Herbal Amore” dried. The souvenir will be available for purchase in most of the city’s shops on Valentine’s Day and afterwards.
The children of the Hauptplatz and Langenhart elementary schools and the Langenhart Bridge School contribute another kindness. In drawing class, they painted hearts on cardboard, which the city’s building yard will attach to bridge railings and squares starting tomorrow.
Source: Nachrichten
