We had a huge set of thunderstorms here yesterday and as John and I were slogging through the rain to the cafe I had an epiphany. You see, umbrellas are called para (for)lluvia(rain) here – makes sense doesn’t it? As I looked out from under my hood at all of the lucky people who owned umbrellas it suddenly struck me that the English word parasol was para (for)sol(sun). Yes, I know it should have been obvious LONG ago, but most of the time you just don’t think about these things until they smack you in the face.