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, Brugge, Vilnius, Palanga, Mykonos, York, Windsor, Koeln
(Cologne), Munchen, Berlin, Hillcrest
My
favourite operas:
La Traviata, Il Barbiere di Seviglia, Il Trovatore, Le Nozze di Figaro, La Tosca, Don Giovanni, La Cenerentola,
L’Italiana in Algeri, Maria
Stuarda
My favourite singers: Philippe Jaroussky,
Juan Diego Florez, Maxim Mironov,
Jonas Kaufmann
My favourite operettas: De Erzaelingen van Hoffmann, Wiener Blut, Der Fledermaus
My
favourite composers:
Johannes Strauss, Chopin, Mozart, Rossini, Verdi, Tsjaikovsky,
Palestrina, Vivaldi, Bellini, Donizetti
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 German songs: [Die Wacht am Rhein] [Die Wacht am Rhein - Wörter] [Das Lied der Deutschen] [Muß ich denn zum Städtele] [Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland] [Denn heut gehört uns Deutschland] [Westerwaldlied] [O Du schöner Westerwald – Heino] [Deutschland Du Land der Treue] [Erika] [Schwarzbraun is die Haselnuß] [Die Vogelhochzeit] [Backe backe Kuchen] [Hänschen klein] [Mein Vater war ein Wandermann] [Die Gedanken sind frei] [Ich hab mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren] [Junge komm bald wieder] [Deutsche Marschlieder] [Prinz Eugen] [Horst Wessellied] [Ich hatte einen Kameraden] [Ich hatt einen Kameraden – Heino] [Lili Marleen - Dietrich] [Lili Marleen – Andersen] [Stille Nacht] [Stille Nacht – Wiener Knaben] [Wunderschön prächtige] [O Tannenbaum, et al – für Kinder, mit Text] [25 Advent en Weihnachtslieder] [Süßer die Glocken niet singen, mit Es ist ein Ros – nach katholischer Fassung] [Stars singen zum weihnachtsfest]
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, Goede tijden slechte tijden, Il Peccato e la vergogna, The Vikings, The Borgias, Downton Abbey
My
favourite actors:
Alberto Sordi, Anna Magnani,
Nino Manfredi, Sofia Loren, Celentano,
Franca Valeri, Francesco Testi,
Gabriele Garko, 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 (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
(Einführung zum Geiste der Liturgie).
My
favourite musea: I Musei Vaticani, British Museum, Albert and Victoria Museum,
Louvre, 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,
Vinegreta, Bulviniai Blynai, Barsciai, Zirniene, Koseliena, Balandeliai
My favourite Dutch dishes: Ertwensoep, Stampot, Mosterdsoep, Uiensoep, Mosselen, Garnalen, Haring, Pannenkoeken
My favourite German
dishes: Blutwurst, Reibekuchen, Rösli (Rösti), Leberkäse, Kloß
My favourite Italian dishes: Pagliata, Spaghetti
alla Bolognese, Spaghetti alle
Vongole, Linguine alla Carbonara, Insalata Caprese, Paglia e Fieno, Gnocchi
My favourite English dishs: Steak & kidney pie, Black pudding, Christmas pudding.