Had to happen, really.
- Being able to move between countries with just my ID card.
- All the different languages, and most people speaking at least 2 languages.
- That despite centuries of bloodshed we can come together and feel kinship.
- The sense of deep, rich history per square metre. It is, and has always been, a densely populated place.
- The blasé attitude towards said history; how we can be avant-garde and futuristic as well as keeping traditions.
- Scandinavian folklore, Greek mythology, German fairy tales... and knowing that all that is my own cultural heritage.
- Big cities at dusk.
- Old-world cynicism. Yes, we really have seen it all.
- The welfare state.
- That we have the right attitude towards sex and guns.