Well, we're back from our week running around Spain with the Italians. We didn't see everything we had planned, but it was a great time anyway. Manuela and Paulo (the Italians) were very funny and likeable. It was a pleasure to meet them and spend a week in their company. A lot happened in said week of playing tourist. We spend a day in Galicia, stopped in a few cities (Segovia, Avila, Coca) on the way there and back, saw Toledo and stayed up way too late in Madrid on the last day.

Italian is very similar to Spanish; Alex and Ana, having spent last year with them in Germany, understood their parla almost perfectly and vice versa. It is an exaggeration, but it seems that Italian is like Spanish with an accent, minus some sounds and with a funny sing-song tone. It took me a couple days to get used to it, but by the end of the week I could understand them too.

I'll post some photos soon. If there is one word I learned well in Italian it is "belisimo." It means we saw some pretty neat stuff.