My
favourite hobby:
Genealogy research
My
favourite colours:
gold, blue, red
My
favourite sport:
swimming, sportschool
My
favourite card games:
Tukstantis, Briscola, Rummy
My favourite places in Holland: Amsterdam, Delft, Edam, Egmond aan Zee, Leiden, Utrecht, Zaanse Schans
My
favourite places elsewhere: Kopenhaven, Roma, Firenze, Venezia, Gent, Brugge, Vilnius, Palanga,
Mykonos, York, Koeln (Cologne), Munchen, Berlin, Hillcrest
My
favourite operas:
La Traviata, Il Barbiere di Seviglia, Il Trovatore, Le Nozze di Figaro, Madama
Butterfly
My
favourite operettas:
De Erzaelingen van Hoffmann, Wiener Blut, De Fledermaus
My
favourite composers:
Johannes Strauss, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Tsjaikovsky,
Palestrina, Vivaldi, Bellini
My
favourite Gregorian chants: Adoro Te devote, O Salutaris Hostia, Tantum Ergo Sacramentum, Panis
Angelicus, Ave Verum Corpus, In Paradisum, Ave Regina Caelorum, Salve Regina,
Alma Redemptoris Mater, Te Deum Laudamus, Laudate Dominum, Rorate Caeli,
Attende Domine, Christe Redemptor omnium, Christus vincit
My
favourite Christmas songs: Tu scendi dalle stelle, De Herdertjes lagen bij nachte, Er is een roos
ontsproten, O Kindeke, Stille Nacht, O Denneboom, Adeste Fideles, The Holly and
the Ivy, Good King Wenceslaus
My favourite Dutch popular songs: Oerend hard, De vlieger, Op een mooie Pinksterdag, Het land van Maas en Waal, Aan de Amsterdamse grachten, Zing vecht huil bid lach werk en bewonder, Zuiderzeebalade, Geef mij maar Amsterdam, O o den Haag, Een eigen huis.
My favourite Italian songs: Azzuro - il pomeriggio e troppo azzuro, Tu solamente tu, Caro mio ben, La bella romanina, La societa dei magnaccioni, Io glie do la cosa piú bella che c'ho, Arrivederci Roma, O sole mio, Mira'l tuo popolo, Vergin Santa che accogli benigna, Fratelli d'Italia
My
favourite films:
Sebastiane, Le vacanze intelligenti, Mamma Roma, Il Gattopardo, The Song of
Bernadette, Gone with the wind, Il nome della Rosa, L’Ultimo Imperatore, I
racconti di Canterbury, Decameron, American gigolo, Maurice, Cabaret, Mamma
carissima (Mother dearest), Planet of the apes, Indiana Jones, Spetters, Una
giornata particolare, Seven years in Tibet, The Passion of Christ.
My
favourite TV series:
Baantjer, Grijpstra en De Gier, RTL Boulevard.
My
favourite actors:
Alberto Sordi, Anna Magnani, Nino Manfredi, Sofia Loren, Celentano, Franca
Valeri, Richard Gere, Richard Chamberlain, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford, Paul Newman,
James Dean, Betty Davis, Brad Pitt
My
favourite authours:
Hermann Hess, Dostojevsky, Marcus Aurelius, Cicero, Plato, Umberto Eco,
Manzoni, Guareschi, Oriana Fallaci, Pim Fortuyn, Gerard Reve, Simone Weil,
Gareth Moore, Charlene Spretnak, Cardinal Ratzinger.
My
favourite books:
Goldmund und Narcissus, Siddharta, Braty Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Voina i mir
(War and peace), Ta eis heauton (by Marcus Aurelius), De Amicitia, Symposium,
Il nome della Rosa, I Promessi Sposi, Maurice, Don Juan, Don Camillo, La rabbia
e l’orgoglio, De islamisering van onze cultuur, Zeven jaar in Tibet, Grimm's
fairy tales, Lettre a un religieux (Letter to a religious), Confessiones of St.
Augustine, A question of truth, Missing Mary: the Queen of Heaven and Her
re-emergence in the modern Church, Introduzione allo spirito della liturgia.
My
favourite musea: I
Musei Vaticani, Het Rijksmuseum
My favourite churches: Basilica di San Pietro (Roma), San Giovanni in Laterano (Roma), San Paulo fuori le Mura (Roma), Santa Maria Maggiore (Roma), Santa Prassede (Roma), San Clemente (Roma), Gesu (Roma), Santa Maria in Trastevere (Roma), Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore (Firenze), Basilica di San Francesco (Assisi), Basilica di San Marco (Venezia), Basilica di Sant’Apollinare Nuovo (Ravenna), Il Duomo (Orvieto), Sventuju Petro ir Povilo (Vilnius), Sv. Stanislovo Katedra (Vilnius), St-Agnes (Amsterdam), Sint-Franciscus in de Krijtberg (Amsterdam), Sint-Johannes en Sint-Ursula in het Begijnhof (Amsterdam), Saint James (Selby, England), Het Heilig Bloed (Brugge), Sint-Baafskathedraal (Gent), Dom (Koeln), Frauenkirche (Munchen)
My
favourite painters:
Leonardo da Vinci, Fra Angelico, Caravaggio
My
favourite sculptor:
Michelangelo
My
favourite Lithuanian dishes: Kugelis, Cepelinai, Misraine, Bulviniai Blynai, Barsciai, Zirniene,
Koseliena, Balandeliai
My favourite Dutch dishes: Ertwensoep, Stampot, Mosterdsoep, Uiensoep, Mosselen, Garnalen, Haring, Pannenkoeken
My favourite Italian dishes: Pagliata, Spaghetti alla Bolognese, Spaghetti alle Vongole, Linguine alla Carbonara, Insalata Caprese, Paglia e Fieno, Gnocchi