gibbous wrote...
Admittedly, dating isn't as institutionalized here as it is for you yankee doodles, but neither of your popular venues (MOVIES, FUN FAIR, DINER) sound that enticing to me.
Our first "dates" were based on walking hand-in-hand around lakes, through vineyards or on sitting in each other's dorm room and blabbering our mouths off until 3:00 a.m.
You are assuming that the two people are already well acquainted and possibly friends, otherwise you could not have that kind of date.
A fair or a diner lets you do something and maybe have some fun together. If you do not know each other that well it can be very hard to just talk and get to know each other that way, but if you do something together you do not have to talk and at the same time you cannot avoid getting to know each other to some degree.
So to sum up: your idea for a data sounds very nice and kind of romantic, but for the first couple of dates it just won't work for most people.