Good morning, dear readers. It feels good to be up and running before office hours. Especially if your inner timetable is a bit messed up by a recent trip.

Loveonomics centers the mind, and on the right priorities. Whether the ‘129 ways’ are for you or not, hope they will cheer you up. Let’s continue…

8 Take several short vacations at different places rather than one long one at one place.

This could be summarized as ‘meet more people rather than fewer people for a longer time’. That is not a bad rule, especially if you start out dating. But overall, meeting and getting to know 13 people should be enough. Statistically, further search beyond 13 does not improve your satisfaction, see here.

9 Sit on a park bench and feed the pigeons.

Who do you expect to meet there? If the particular park you are thinking about is frequented by the single demographic you are aiming for in terms of age, gender, education and interests, by all means go for it. But your choice should be deliberate in function of this. I really doubt that any random park bench would do.

10 Take a bicycle trip through Europe.

There is a lot to be said for exercise and a change of scene, as well as an educational trip. Independent of whether you want to date or not. From the dating angle, I would research the cities and regions that have good odds, i.e. where your gender and age group is in the minority among singles. And then plan the bicycle trip around those.

To be continued next week.