IF YOU could send your sweetheart a rose for every Valentine's site, you'd be a popular person.

But, really - sending a Valentine's e-card is a little old hat.

Why not go for something special this year and book a holiday? The world is your oyster.

A good first destination online is magellan.excite.com.

It's an excellent site with links to major travel sites - many with a little Valentine's treat.

Lonely Planet offers a fun theme and dream section where you can check out the Twilight zone for something surreal, Music theme destinations from Mozart to Mississippi blues and Beaches - sun and sand for everyone.

But, the piece de resistance was a site advertised as Villas of the World at www.overseasconnection.net.

Complete with fantastic photos you could choose from Tuscany to Thailand.

It also listed celebrity properties and private islands.

In the same vein, you could look at www.exclusivedestinations.co.uk for something completely different.

Conde Naste's www.concierge.com although American oriented, offers some nice places to think about.

German romantic getaways and a UK rural treats sites (advertised in an upscale women's magazine) turned up nothing.

If all this seems a bit too much, check out ClipLinks site (www.kelseypub.com/cliplinks/) for enough sweetheart clip art to make your message heard.

Closer to home, www.elh.co.uk/romance, the English Lakes Hotels are offering rooms with a bottle of Laurent Perrier Champagne on ice, together with two hand-engraved commemorative champagne flutes to take home for Valentine's.

Or you can try www.selfcateringcottagesthelakedistrict.co.uk for romantic four poster beds, oak beamed ceilings and more.

Pictures of the cottages will help you make your decision.

The sky is the limit, and simply searching for Valentine's sites will take you all over the map.

thisissite of the week: One cannot ignore the corny side of Valentine's Day.

Click onto www.theholidayspot.com and be greeted by throbbing red hearts to get you in the mood.

From chocolate recipes to the history of Valentine's Day and the tradition of sending cards - one of the earliest which was sent in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was a prisoner in the Tower of London, now preserved in the British Museum - it's all on this entertaining little site.