Using an instinct that may be inherited, I managed to find my way to a graduation party today for Luca's girlfriend, which involved her family paying for plenty of Berlucchi prosecco and cocktails all round. Before midday. Pretty decent hospitality from people that I'd never met before, but that's fast becoming the norm as far as my experiences in Italy have gone.

Oh - to the lots of people who have asked - Hugo is a friend I met at the summer school in Oregon last summer. He came to Edinburgh last year too.