Today has been a long day. Been threatened at home by a man trying to break down a door and saying bad things will happen to me. Had to help prepare the school fête for tomorrow. Really didn't get much work done, though I started at 6am. And had a lot of hassle trying to transfer a site from GitHub to GitLab Pages. Still don't understand why the same code in both systems gives permalinks that work in GitHub but not in GitLab ... And I can't sleep 🤷♂️
@pabloniusmonk Thanks mate. Change of seasons affects us too (as well as full moons!), and summer has come far too early this year in Andalucia. On a positive note, there's a big party at our kids' school today, for the Día de la Cruz, one of the most heartfelt festivities in Granada. And everyone will be dressed up in Flamenco gear! 💃 Hope you get some good rest too. Certainly I'll be having a siesta tomorrow.
@pabloniusmonk ¡Gracias Pablo! We had a great day, great but exhausting! And yesterday was a day of putting out fires, figuratively speaking, at work and in our building comunidad 😳 TGIF for sure! Certainly you don't have enough holidays over in the States!
Early this summer, I'll be visiting #Napoli for the first time! 🇮🇹 🥰 (#Naples just to catch the hashtag in case it's more popular)
I'd love to read your recommendations, memories, impressions, and advice. Bonus points if you've lived or currently live there. Thanks so much to everyone who responds! ❤️
@ivana The pizza's divine - most fully appreciated when it's just a Margherita. I have a soft spot for Babà al Rum, though everyone prefers the Sfogliatella. Get lost but not too much in the Quartieri Spagnoli. Enjoy the coffee, strong and black like nowhere else, and pay it forwards. Do the Naples underground tour, you won't regret it.
@ivana I guess it depends where in Spain. In Catalunya, Valencia, Asturias, Basque Country, Galicia, etc., some people get annoyed that foreigners try so hard to speak to them in Castilian, rather than their own local language, for example, Catalan. "Why speak another 'foreign' language badly between us, when we could both better speak English together?" "If you are going to learn a language, it might as well be the local one." So, they'd sometimes really prefer you to speak English.
@ivana They're right of course. Though it is difficult for foreigners. It's like expecting to speak Spanish in Portugal. Or English in Wales. You can, but people would appreciate it if you tried a little harder. In Castilian Madrid or Andalucia, it's clearly different. Andalú is just a dialect, but Catalan is a very different language from Castilian. In Italy, apart from a few very small areas, everyone speaks Italian. A different accent, a different dialect, but essentially the same language.
@pabloniusmonk Ah, wow, nice. We live just around the corner. I haven't seen that episode! If you were a student here, I don't suppose you have seen the film Granada Nights? (it's a bit like a Granada-version Auberge Espagnole).