Fall in Toledo

Fall has finally come to Castilla-La Mancha. I'm sitting in the main plaza of Toledo typing on my laptop and I'm actually rather chilly in my WM hooded sweatshirt (how very American. As if they couldn't tell from the computer... I don't think people here use laptops very much, and certainly not in public). But I am at last victorious over all of the security encoded wireless connections in my building. If I sit on one particular bench in the plaza I can get all of the free wireless that I want.
Last week in Granada was pretty good all in all; I love Granada and always will but after being in the more "refined," northern Toledo (where people actually speak intelligible Castillian, dreadlocks are rare, and weekday nightlife is usually over by midnight), it was a little bit of an adjustment being back. I saw my boyfriend, Wadih, after being apart for a year, which was also an adjustment, but things are good now.
Sunday I went to Robledo de (La?) Chavela, which is a beautiful town up in the mountains outside of Madrid. Dino, an Israeli cymbalom player (yes, this is my life) lives there, and he wanted to do a little bit more recording with the qanun. Unfortunately I couldn't get a ride back to Toledo, so I had to take public transportation - which included a bus, two metros, and a train - with my qanun and dulcimer. Not so fun.
As for this week, not a whole lot has been happening so far. I went back to the foreigners office, spoke with a different person (who informed me that I did NOT, in fact, need an appointment, and that I had been wasting two weeks trying to get one), and actually got to turn some papers in. However, I was missing the identification number of the organization I'm working with and my "boss" has yet to return my phone calls and give it to me, so I'm still waiting.
Other than that, I'm going to go to Portugal for a few days starting on Friday with a friend I met here. A little beach will be nice :)