I have a bouch of friends that are gonna think I'm 1) crazy, 2) billionaire.

Congratulations!

My friends know I am not 2, therefore I must be 1.

BTW, was that lira billionaire, or euro billionaire? Sigh, I will miss all those colourfull European banknotes and fancy coins... In the last ten or so years they all tended to be of quite similar design, but remember those Italian lira and French franc notes the size of a smallish newspaper? Francs were usually held together with pins.

What is important, though, is that wine and food stay diverse. No danger there (unless some eurobureaucrat endeavors to standadise those, too ).