This isn’t anywhere, Cyprus.

Cyprus Island. Right above it is Turkey. Syria is on the right. But it’s part of the EU. It is the closest part of Europe for refugees. A market in Northern Lefkosia. When I was living in the suburbs of Boston, my landlord was from the Greek side of Cyprus. I always wanted to visit one day. I explored the island in all directions in a car. ・・Mountain road, Kakopetria Everyone in the Boston landlord’s family graduated from great...

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I met Joan at a fishing village in Malta.

Malta. An island located on the south side of Sicily and Tunis. A nation that joined the EU in 2004. Joan, who came to Japan to study from this island graduated and returned home, so I visited her. The first thing that comes to mind when you hear Malta is cats. They say there are twice as many cats as humans. It has a longer history than Egypt by a century. It was reigned by Phoenicia, Carthage, Rome, Arab, Norman, Spain,...

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