First date ideas, anyone?

Yesterday on the Ray D’Arcy Show on Today FM, a listener rung in, looking for advice for a first date. It got me thinking, I’m useless when I am put on the spot to suggest first date options, and I cop out by leaving it up to the guy to ‘surprise me’.

I never know what to do but I do know what not to do, and believe it or not, it’s go see a movie! It inhibits conversation; a first date is like a test drive, if you don’t like the feel of the car, you may not want to take it for another spin! Eliminating the opportunity to talk, and get to know one another a little better, is detrimental to the possibility of a second date.

So, I’ve put my thinking cap on, forearmed for my next ‘first date’ let’s say.

1. Ice skating – not for the faint hearted!
2. Bowling
3. Bike riding – avail of the new bikes available to the public all over Dublin
4. Visit a tourist spot neither of you have been to before e.g. if in Dublin - Guinness, Jameson, Book of Kells; if in Paris – Eiffel Tour or New York take a way across the Brooklyn Bridge for ice-cream on the other side!
5. Visit the Zoo
6. Window Shopping but only if he’s metro- sexual; it would be a guy’s worst nightmare otherwise
7. Crazy Golf/Pitch and Putt
8. Visit an Art or Photography Gallery
9. A trip to the Circus
10. Visit an amusement park; when were you last on the bumpers?!
11. Go for a picnic – say, in the Phoenix Park
12. Have lunch at one of those restaurants where they make the food in front of you e.g. the Mongolian BBQ

Whatever you decide for your first date, be open to new adventures but only agree to do something or go somewhere you’re comfortable with. As mentioned in a previous posting prepare your 5 questions, applicable to every situation, to eliminate any awkward silences.

If you have any alternative first date suggestions please add them in the comment box below.

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