Buying tickets with vouchers is very hard.  There are so many restrictions.  I just found out the tickets we booked don’t actually count, because the return trip is on a partner airline.  The dude on the phone rebooked us on a qualifying flight, but it means spending the night in Copenhagen.

I don’t know anything about Copenhagen.  Is it cool?  It looks like the city center is pretty accessible from the airport, so we could probably spend some time in Copenhagen.  Any tips?

I’ve been practicing my Italian in preparation for the Rome trip.  It’s going pretty well; I’m surprised how much I remember from college.  One thing I had forgotten about is the passato prossimo, which is a very common type of past tense.  It’s a lot like the present perfect in Spanish (e.g. ¿Has comido?–Have you eaten?) except you only sometimes use the verb avere (to have).  Other times you use essere (to be).  So instead of saying literally “I have gone to the restaurant” you say “I am gone to the restaurant” and what it means is “I went to the restaurant.”

It’s kind of confusing.  I’m glad I have another six months to get it sorted out.

One thing that’s really good is that Italy has now moved to the Euro.  The last time I was there, they were still using lira, and it required knowing really complicated numbers, because everything cost fourteen thousand six hundred fifty-nine lira.  It’s lot easier to understand when nothing I would buy costs more than a hundred Euros.