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The most beautiful continent in the world | me - but let there be no white area by 2030! |
Hello! Nice to meet you! This is Europa. Welcome aboard! I will drive you across many parts of my charming body. The site is always in progress because I'm constantly changing, so have a look to it regularly.Come to visit me and I'll show you everything I consist of: 49 wonderful countries, more than 700 million people, a long history and a lot of traditions.Since multilinguism is one of my most particular characteristics, all the names of my countries and locations will appear in their original form wherever it is possible. If you don't know the English equivalents, you can find them here. |
|  | I have many pretenders... There are million of people on Earth who love me and come to me in order to have a stable relationship, not just mere friendship or platonic love.
However, I'm not very happy with them because they seem to like only some of my faces and of the countries I consist of. They don't understand me thoroughly. I cannot get married to a man who loves France but not Island, Eire but not Hayastan. I don't accept that. I want my husband to love me as a whole. (The other continents will think I'm too ambitious.) I'm looking for a real Europhile. Will I find him?
I felt really lonely until... |
| Michele and I at La Défense, Paris |
| | ... but only one lover ... one day I found him. No, that's not well said. Rather he discovered me and started loving me with all his heart.I'm really happy with him. His name is Michele and comes from Rovigo; he told me that his name means "who is like God?" in Hebrew (well, the answer is easy: I am like God!). He thinks of me every single day and whenever I feel sad, he also feels sad. He has already explored many of my aspects and visited many of my countries. He's ambitious, like me.He wants to visit all of me, learn all the official languages spoken on my territory and he hopes all of the countries I consist of, will become members of the European Union one day, including Türkiye, Sakartvelo, Hayastan, Azärbaycan and Mother Rossija. That's one of my biggest hope, too. By the way, you can sign a petition to push the EU to start pre-accession negotiations with Ukraine here.Michele has odd plans for his future life, too. He would like to work for the European Union in Bruxelles or Strasbourg, to live in Luxembourg and to marry a European woman whose mother language is not Italian, so that they can have tri- or quadrilingual children.When people hear about all his plans, they think he is a bit crazy, but I do not agree.You know, Michele is also a poet, although he often doesn't have time to write poems. You'll be able to read them maybe. However, they are written in Italian and, although Michele is studying in Trieste to become a translator, he hates translating his own poems. |
| | his other hobbies My lover Michele, beside me, likes other things:1) languages. He already knows a lot of them: Italian, Venetian, French, English, German, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Czech, modern Greek and very little Finnish. He would like to improve in all of these languages and to learn many others (as I've written above);2) books. When he has the time, Michele likes reading good books. His favourite writers are Agatha Christie, Paulo Coelho, Emily Dickinson, Oriana Fallaci, Jostein Gaarder, Giacomo Leopardi, Giovanni Pascoli, Oscar Wilde and others;3) collections. He collects stamps, coins, banknotes, train and museums tickets and many more. Of course, he collects mainly European stuff. If you collect some of those things, in particular stamps tell him, maybe you can exchange them;4) trains, metros and other means of public transport. He hasn't got a car but he wouldn't like to have one. Cars pollute and are dangerous (how many people die every year on my roads!), while trains respect the environment and can go much faster with little risk. Michele loves TGV and other high-speed trains but thinks the lines for commuters are very important, too. He always go to Trieste by train; 5) photographs. He's not yet an expert but he steadily improves. I hope I can help him by offering him beautiful monuments and landscapes to photograph. |
| Wien: "to time its art and to art its freedom" |
| | Michele's past and future travels Here are listed by year the most beautiful parts of me that Michele has visited so far:
2007
ITALIA
Alto Adige/Südtirol
2006
DEUTSCHLAND
Nürnberg (2nd time)
HRVATSKA
Istra (Poreč/Parenzo, Rovinj/Rovigno), Dalmacija (Zadar, Nin, Pag, Kornati, Šibenik)
MAGYARORSZAG
Budapest
POLSKA
Częstochowa, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Kraków, Oświęcim (Auschwitz), Wadowice, Wieliczka, Wrocław
2005
DEUTSCHLAND
Bayern (Augsburg, Dachau, München, Nürnberg, Oberschleißheim)
ITALIA
Bassano, Gorizia, Lavarone, Marostica, Miramare, Padova, Torino, Trieste
SLOVENIJA
Bovec, Kobarid
2004
FRANCE
Bretagne (Morlaix, Rennes and many villages)
ITALIA
Bologna, Castell'Arquato, Firenze, Milano, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Salsomaggiore Terme, Udine, Venezia, Verona
2003
ESPA?A
Salamanca (excursions to Madrid, Toledo, along the Duero/Douro to Portugal)
FRANCE
Paris
ITALIA
Abano Terme, Mesola, Muggia, Treviso
?STERREICH
Wien
SLOVENIJA
Koper/Capodistria
2002
DEUTSCHLAND
Trier
ELL?DA
Ath?na, Epid?vros, Mik?nes
FRANCE
Angers, Marais Poitevin (Poitou-Charentes)
ITALIA
Arezzo, Ferrara, Mantova, Siena
LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg
2001
FRANCE
Normandie (Bayeux, Caen, Cherbourg, Rouen...)
IRELAND-?IRE
Aran Islands, Dublin, Galway
EARLIER
FRANCE
Val de Loire, Colmar, Strasbourg...
ITALIA
Lavarone, Sottomarina, Trento, Vicenza
And here are listed the other places of my body he wants to explore and where we are going to fall in love again and again in the coming years. This list will never been complete nor definitive:
BĂLGARIJA
Plovdiv, Rila, Sofija
BELARUS'
Minsk, Vitebsk
BELGIQUE/BELGIE
Antwerp/Anvers, Bruges/Brugge, Bruxelles, Liège
ČESKO
Karlovy Vary, Kutná Hora, Praha
EESTI
Tallinn
ESPA?A
Barcelona, Granada, Madrid, M?laga, Santiago de Compostela
FRANCE
Bordeaux, Nancy, Poitiers, Reims, Troyes
HAYASTAN
Erevan
HRVATSKA
Dubrovnik, Pula/Pola, Split, Zagreb
ITALIA
Agrigento, Bari, Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona, Genova, Napoli, Palermo, Roma, Siracusa
LATVIJĀ
Rīga
LIETUVA
Vilnius
MAGYARORSZAG
Szentendre, Godollo, Pécs
MALTA
ÖSTERREICH
Graz, Linz, Salzburg
POLSKA
Gdańsk, Warszawa
PORTUGAL
A?ores, Algarve, Lisboa
ROM?NIA
ROSSIJA
Moskva, Sankt-Peterburg, Siberia
SAK'ART'VELO
Tbilisi
SLOVENSKO
Bratislava, Visoké Tatry
SUOMI/FINLAND
Helsinki, Lappi, Savonlinna, Suomenlinna, Tampere, Turku
TÜRKİYE
İstanbul;
UKRAІNA
Kyiv, L'viv, Krym;
VATICANO |
| chiesa di Sant'Ignazio in Gorizia |
| | Postcards from VT friends Michele enjoys receiving postcards from VT people (maybe because they are the only ones he gets).
Following VT members have sent him one or more postcards: thanks a lot!
aah_stone: Sussex (United Kingdom); Antwerpen/Anvers (Belgique/België - Belgium)
Aurorae: Beograd (Srbija - Serbia); Egypt; Gjirokastra (Sqiperia - Albania)
Childish: Rila monastery, Historic Bulgaria, Bulgarian old towns and villages (Bălgarija - Bulgaria); Jerusalem (Israel); Wien (Österreich)
CliffClaven: Komárno (Slovakia - via Luxembourg)
Cristian_Uluru: Bergen (Norge/Noreg - Norway); Normandie (France); Praha (Česká republika - Czechia)
engeluna: North Carolina
freya_heaven: Devon, The Lizard, Wales and London (United Kingdom); Istanbul (Türkiye)
Italiana07: Côte Bleue (France)
JLBG: Ulcinj (Crna Gora - Montenegro)
margaretvn: Nederland
Raimix: Vilnius (Lietuva - Lithuania)
spanishguy: Sevilla (España - Spain)
STEFZAMM: Spirola Bay (Malta)
zlatiq: Mesa Verde (USA)
If you would like to send him a postcard from your travels or from where you live, ask him his address. He will send you a postcard from Italia or from his travel destinations. Your name will then appear in this list. |
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jumpingnorman Sat Nov 7, 2009 15:19 UTC
Hi Michele! You are the featured member - hope everything okay there in Rovigo...will be leaving with kids in a few minutes to see Mickey Mouse who is visiting a mall near our house...first 100 kids get EARS, so we gotta go! Norman :) | MaheshSamtani Tue Oct 27, 2009 23:00 UTC
Dear Michele thank you for the birthday wishes. All the best and hoping to see you soon in Valencia. | Donna_in_India Sun Oct 25, 2009 14:42 UTC
Hi Michele - you're the featured member again so I thought I'd stop by and say hi! Haven't heard from you in a while. Hope all is well! | ozalp Fri Oct 23, 2009 14:35 UTC
Hi Michele. Thanks a lot for the birthday wishes. |
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