VE Day

Today is VE Day. While "VE Day" is celebrated in Russia on the 9th and a few countries in Europe have a bank holiday on the 8th of May... in America, VE Day isn't really given much attention. It's been 64 years since the end of World War II in Europe and somehow, though neither I nor my parents were alive to see it end, it's kind of an eerie feeling I having thinking and knowing that it was that long ago. My grandparents who were alive during WWII are long gone. It seems like that whole generation, the generation alive during that time, is passing on and soon enough, there won't be a single "survivor" of the "Great Generation". Very strange to think about.

On a lighter note, I found an interesting map with all the old currencies in Europe before the evil euro came along and crushed my dreams of owning such currencies as the French franc, the Belgian franc, the Luxembourgian franc, the Dutch guilder, the Spanish peseta, the Greek drachma, the Cypriot pound, the Italian lira, the Maltese lira, the Irish pound, the Deutschmark, the Finnish markka, the Portuguese escudo, the Austrian schilling.
At least I got my hands on the Slovak koruna and Slovenian tolar before they adopted the euro.

Today's Random Quiz:

Your Inner European is French!

Smart and sophisticated. You have the best of everything - at least, *you* think so.

Who's Your Inner European?