Euros paid into a parking meter to park in Castillina today so we would not incur another fine: 3
Hours 3 Euros is worth in the parking lot: 3
Fellow Americans we adamantly warned to go back and purchase a parking permit so they would not also incur a fine like we did: 2
Euros paid to use the public WC: .50
Number of people who used the public WC: 1
Number of people we thought about sqeezing into the public WC to save on Euros but really didn’t so don’t dwell on this please: 3
Minutes we thought we had left before adding more Euros to the parking meter so we would not incur a second fine: 45
Euros spent in the pottery shop so that we wouldn’t feel badly about asking the proprietor who speaks a bit of English to please translate our parking ticket for us and tell us how to pay it: 56
Number of Euros the pottery shop proprietor told us we actually had to pay to the meter today because it was Sunday: 0
Euros wasted on parking in Castillina today: 3
Euros paid for three very thick steaks to the butcher who whacked them from a hunk of meat and presented them to us with a sweep of his hand: 25
Hours it took to heat charcoal for BBQing our steaks for dinner tonight: 1
Daughter and cat entertained by the story: 1. The çat was bored and fell asleep.