Sometimes I wonder… do all Europeans see the prospect of travelling to America with the same glamour as most Americans conceive the idea of getting on Europe tours? Is that just the lure of the unknown moving our hearts and minds, that makes it work that way? I’m not really sure, but I suppose most likely yes. Granted, America has incurred a kind of a blemished reputation this past couple of years, but I imagine that crossing the Atlantic is still very much an enchanting notion, to most europeans. I just wish I could get out there and ask them, myself!

It’s true, dear reader! I very much wish I could afford doing a little travel-around through Europe. As a teenager, I almost went on a European InterRail, but I kind of chickened out. As a grown-up I’ve thought about visiting Rome and Paris a couple of times, but (the lack of) money and other circumstances ultimately left me stranded. At this rate, when I eventually succeed in crossing the Atlantic, I’ll probably get disappointed… “what, so THIS is what I’ve been waiting for all my life? It’s just a continent, and it’s not so different from America, anyway”. Yeah, sometimes I feel that anywhere you go, people are still people, and places are just places… but still, one cannot live a full life without getting to know a little bit of the world out there, right?