Espana, look out!

We are going to an academic conference in Spain this summer. Today, we went to the AAA office to plan our post-conference travels. The conference is in Malaga and Ronda (mostly Ronda). We had planned to run over to Italy for a week, since Brigheon has never been to Italy. (Actually, she's never been to Europe, but Italy was of special interest.) We assumed that a shuttle flight to Rome would be cheap. We were wrong.

We decided to travel around southern Spain (Andalucia) and fly out of Lisbon, Portugal. We will literally save thousands of dollars and will save Italy for another trip. Anyway, we will spend a day in Madrid, a day in Malaga, four days in Ronda, a few days each in Cordoba, Seville, Granada, and Lisbon. It'll be a heck of a trip. We are pretty psyched!