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Flat Michael project!

img_20190611_100824Dear General,

one year ago while chatting through your NeuroNode device during one of my 8 hours shift, I asked you: ” So General what do you want to do this afternoon? ” and you wrote using your assistive technology device : ” I want to tour Europe! ” I still remember my face when I red the message, I was hoping for a drink or a coffee in a nearby Cafe but you never liked simple and boring thing so I ended up thinking: ” Well that is easy enough! ” I went on youtube wrote : ” Tour of Europe ” and we started viewing 100 videos! Of course all of them were not fun enough for you so we ended up turning everything off and at that point I promised you that one day we will have travelled to Europe together! I still have impressed in my mind your 5 blinks of the eyes which means a BIIIIIIG YES and that was the ” end of the story! “

For me was ” just ” a new challenge and in my crazy mind I started thinking a way to make it possible and who knows maybe making a video that could gain your attention for more than 5 seconds!! So after all these months here we are, ready for this adventure! I have used intensely my only brain cell and finally I got it!! In fact, many years ago I remember that my cousin, who was studying in an American elementary school, sent me a request: ” helping him and Flat Stanley ” to visit Florence, my hometown! ” Flat Stanley ” if you do not know it, which is quite weird because you know everything, is a figure cut out of paper, with separate clothes, also made of paper, that are usually held onto the doll by paper folding tabs.  It is a great educational project designed to facilitate the improvement of the reading and writing skills of students, while also promoting an interest in learning about different people and places (this was centuries ago when internet was a dream). So after all this you might ask yourself: ” So come on Veronica, time is money ! What does Flat Stanley  have to do with me?? ” Well ” Flat Michael “, just relax and enjoy the trip because as I promised you, we are going to Europe! ” and you know what ? You also look thiner in this photo!! 

 

READY- SET- GO now please listen carefully to the Captain because our Flight to Valencia is leaving shortly!!

Trip bucketlist

  • Eat a really good Paella
  • Get drunk with a Sangria and be able to find the hotel room
  • Win a biiiiig poker tournament in Barcelona
  • See the MotoGP race and steal Rossi’s bike
  • Buy a really ridiculous item at the “ El rastro market “
  • Wear a red shirt in front of a bull
  • Eat a “Frankfurter Würstchen” and drink a jug of beer for breakfast
  • Go on the cable car built in 1957 in Cologne
  • Buy the Schockoladenmuseum in Cologne (even a small pistachio chocolate will do)
  • Convince Charles to jump of Berlin’s tallest bridge
  • Challenge a Berliner in a Ping-Pong bar and win a match
  • Climbing a WW2 bunker
  • Have a drink at the Ice Pub in Berlin
  • Try a real nakládaný hermelín in Prague a typical pickled cheese
  • Go to the top 10 pastryplaces in Vienna and try all the Sacher Torte pretending to be a famous pastry chef
  • Relax in one of Budapest’ famous bath and stay there from the opening time till closing time
  • Go to Venice casino and win big (or lose also since we are almost at the end of the trip)
  • Hop on a “Gondola”
  • Spend 154.634 euros for THE gelato at ” Cracco Gelateria ” in Milan
  • Visit the Ducati Museum in Bologna
  • Take Charles and Jessie everywhere in my hometown in Florence and show them the place where I first almost died for alcohol coma
  • Let Charles and Jessie eat the typical ” Panino al Lampredotto” before explaining what it is
  • Eat the typical “Saltimbocca alla Romana” in a Trattoria in Trastevere
  • Go to a concert at the Colosseum
  • Throw a coin in the Trevi Fountain because this trip was a success and,as the tradition wants, we are going to come back!