A starting point ...

I’m Joao Pita Costa, a member of AEGEE European Student Forum. I’m coming with the idea of connecting two far away points: Lisboa and St.Petersburg. I’ll be looking for common points in these two magic cities that somehow give the west and east limits to a Europe made of people and not of territory. I left on the 20th of January from Lisboa towards Helsinki, right in the north of the Europe that I know.

My path will start in Helsinki, in Finland, historically close related to Russia; from there I’ll go down to Estonia, one of the old Baltic USSR member states, that also chare many soviet memories, and from Tallinn, I’ll enter by bus in Russia. St. Petersburg is the starting point of my visit, the main contact. After that I only know I’ll be representing AEGEE Lisboa in the Winter University event in Moskva, as Dasha’s invited guest, the kind AEGEE President from this antenna.

Here in this space the reader should just enjoy the short stories posted and participate in it by writhing comments in Portuguese, Russian or even Slovene (why not?). They may be suggestions from who knows better, questions from what is written and even some quests. I’m open to any challenge my friends. Keep track of this journey as it was your own. My best wishes and thoughts of a sesljui novi god.