Five photos, five countries, one thread running through them: the moments you actually remember from a trip are rarely the ones on the itinerary. A fisheye lens in a market square. A coffee that took twenty minutes longer than it should have. A gondola passing at exactly the right second. Here’s a quick lap around the continent through five of them. Wrocław, Poland Market Square, shot wide enough that the whole thing curves.

The debate is usually framed as a zero-sum competition: more European identity means less French identity, less Polish identity, less Greek identity. This framing drives most of the political conflict around EU integration and produces a considerable amount of heat without much light. It is also empirically wrong. Surveys of European publics consistently find that strong national identity and meaningful European identity coexist without much tension in the majority of respondents.