Enrico Zini showed me around Bologna yesterday, with Luca De Vitis joining us. Luca and I talked about various Debian issues for a while, continuing an e-mail exchange which has been going on between us since the last NM flamewar a while ago. Enrico told me all kind of things about Bologna and Italian's history; he really knows many things, and I think he'd be an excellent teacher. Bologna seemed pretty nice. We met some more Debian people at the university and then went to Florence (without Luca who was busy/tired).
After arriving in Florence, I checked into my hotel and then we went out to dinner. Christian Surchi had picked an excellent restaurant, and the food was really good. I ate too much, and I really don't want to know how many kilos I gained during the last days. The food wasn't what I'd see as "typical Italian", but I guess that's just because of my limited vision of Italian food as pizza, lasagna and spaghetti (especially pizza). It was typical food for Florence, and it was really yummy. We had some excellent conversations, and I really enjoyed myself. Knowing that this will start a flamewar, I have to officially say that the Italian people are more fun than the Spaniards! Just joking, I love all of you. But I hope this will cause some rivalry leading to the Spanish people inviting me again to convince me they are better, then the Italian people inviting me again, etc, etc. ;-) In any case, after learning important Spanish phrases (like "casate conmigo"), I now speak perfect Italian; well, maybe not, but at least they taught me the word fichissimo. After the dinner, we went around Florence for a while so Enrico would sober up again. It is a really beautiful city. So many old buildings… I have to do some sightseeing during the day as well.
Today, I met with the people of Media Innovation Unit of Firenze Tecnologia and we discussed some proposals involving Debian.