I was being sarcastic :) , but I didn’t know of the mutual animosity between some of their people. I would love to visit Italy and Spain some day.
Our media attempt to portray “Hispanics” as all having the same interests and as being a unified voting bloc for political purposes, but it’s far from a unified group. In New Mexico, the outright disdain of old settler Spanish-descended families for Mexican indios and mestizos is something that I experienced first hand decades ago. I’d never heard the word “wetback” before, and that’s where I heard it. Cubans don’t like Mexicans at all, either. Then, you’ve got Puerto Ricans. They’re all different and really have little affection for the other groups. The only thing they really share is a language, in addition to being countries largely comprised of mixed-race people being ruled by white Spaniards.
We have a major airport less than an hour away that has flights from all of the European discount airlines. We are going to Milan, Florence and Pisa in May, flying in an out of Milan for 40 euros each round trip.