Some years ago, Declan wrote a blog post in Vietnam describing a meal that pushed him to toss his cookies.  After detailing some of the flavors, he added “and then my stomach said, too much information.”

I’m not sure what the mental equivalent of cookie tossing is, but I have definitely reached the “too much information” stage with school. I had just started to think that maybe I was making a bit of progress with the preterito imperativo vs the preterito indefindo, when our teachers merrily moved on to imperatives (both affirmative and negative)(which are, of course, conjugated differently from each other and have a ton of irregularities), and direct and indirect object pronouns.

Uh huh. Got it. Sure. No problem.

K wanted a walk and reading time; I joined a teacher and a handful of other students for a quick tour of this massive and impressive museum, which ranges from Neanderthal remains and bronze age figurines –

through Punic and Roman artefacts by the hectare –

to recent Valencian social and agricultural history –

and crucial food history –

to everything modern imaginable:

Overwhelming – I must try to get back to the Prehistoric- to- Roman part and try to do it at less of a jog.

I managed to confirm (in Spanish, ish) that a paella is the pan itself, “porque paella está la palabra Valenciano para sarten” – “because paella is pan in Valenciano.”