deartraveller

Dear Erica,

 As I was leaving Africa, my dad sent me an email. He was so impressed with my new tan that he wrote and I quote « you passed from Queen Elizabeth ( that queen we studied on the 12th grade which was very very pail ) « to Naomi Campbell! » ( the supermodel of Afro-jamaican descent).

As you can imagine this sentence made my day, but it also made me curious, so I stopped in the airport and before I decided where to go next I watched the movie ' Elizabeth : The Golden Age '. I hardly knew that inside this movie was my next destination!

 There's a character that personifies the real finder of Virginia, named Walter Raleigh (1584), that explores the so called 'New World' and he is the one that baptized Virginia.

On behalf of the Queen, he explored the american coast and claimed the region from South Caroline untill Maine to the United Kingdom and named this immense area 'Virginia', because of the Queens's epithet 'The Virgin Queen'. It was expected that she would marry and produce an heir so as to continue the Tudor line, but she never did and as she grew older, she actually became famous for her virginity. (Weird ...)

Well after all this new discovers I think you can guess where I'm heading ... Virginia Beach! There was a boy seated right next to me and after a short chat I realized he is also going to Virginia Beach so I learned all of this : every year the city hosts the East Coast Surfing Championships as well as the North American Sand Soccer Championship and it is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the longest pleasure beach in the world!

So please try to visit me there, you know how much you love sun and sand girl!

Missing you a lot and with a very nasty backache due to the hours I've spent seated watching the movie, answering to you and to my dad and talking with Gabriel, I'll be waiting for your answer and hopefully your visit.

Love, Sara

P.S: I know you got curious about Gabriel so guess what ? ... He's just like Brenton Thwaites!!

The Virgin Queen

First place I want to visit.

Gabriel saying 'Hi' to you!