Ireland

The people who live here are the Irish. The languages spoken here are the Irish English and the Irish Gaelic. It’s a republic and the political system is the democracy. The currency is the euro (€).

About 4.5 million people live here. It’s a country next to Great Britain and it has been independent since 1922. The only border country it has is Northern Ireland. Its area is about 70.000 square kilometres. The capital city is Dublin and other big cities are Cork or Galway.

Let's talk about its history. Its first inhabitants were the Celts. Saint Patrick christianized the Celts and the Romans. Around the 11th century the Vikings invaded them, and in the 12th century the British invaded the country and until 1922 the Irish haven’t been independent. The Great Famine killed about two million people between 1846 and 1851 because potatoes couldn’t be eaten.

Ireland has had a lot of artists, such as Bono or the drummer of U2. The great writer James Joyce was from Dublin and the actor Colin Farrell is also Irish.

Here it is common to drink Stout beer, and the basic food is the potato.

I wouldn’t mind living here because they drink a lot of beer and I like their music. The only thing I dislike is the cold weather.

Lithuania

The name of my country is Lithuania and the nationality of its inhabitants is the Lithuanian, there the language spoken is Lithuanian. The population is 3.500.000 inhabitants and the total area is 65 000 km². The capital city is Vilnius, it is a beautiful city on the banks of the rivers Neris and Vilnia.

Lithuania is the southernmost of the three Baltic states and the largest and most populous of them. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea. It shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast and Poland and Russia to the southwest.

The political system is the republic, Lithuania was the first occupied Soviet republic to break free from the Soviet Union and restore its sovereignty via the declaration of independence on 11 March 1990. It has been a member of the European union since 2004, but the currency isn’t the Euro, it’s the Lita.

Charles Bronson, a famous actor, was born in USA, but he grew up in Lithuania.

Lithuania’s most famous culinary export is perhaps cold beet soup. Potatoes also make a regular appearance on menus, popular dishes being potato pancakes and Cepelinai (potato dumplings stuffed with meat, curd cheese or mushrooms).

I would not mind living in Lithuania because it’s a very beautiful place, there are incredible landscapes: Lithuania has 758 rivers, more than 2 800 lakes and 99 km of the Baltic Sea coastline and the forests cover just over 30% of the country.