The only major problem I've got with Spain is that the customer service - waiters, people in bus and train stations, at tourist sights, everywhere - is absolutely fucking appalling to the extent where you're often not sure whether to burst out laughing, or start hitting people. Hungarians are spectacularly bad at it, but the Spanish really are something else entirely.

And bear in mind that I speak the language pretty well.

Good things about it (I'm illustrating my list, hope no-one minds. If you do mind... just don't click the links. Simple.):

- I like the regions / nations business. Of course I would say that, having Catalán cousins
- Beautiful women who, unlike the ones in England, will stare at you all the way down the street if you're six feet tall and have blond hair
- The language (although the Andaluz accent is noticeably more pleasant than, in particular, the Madrileño, to an Argentine-speaker)
- The price of everything, especially in Salamanca
- Patatas bravas
- Barcelona
- Valencia
- Seville
- Granada as a whole, not just the Alhambra
- The Mezquita in Córdoba
- Salamanca
- The ease and price of getting tickets to watch top-flight football
- Lionel Messi (he's not Spanish, sure, but he plays there)
- The toy soldier museum in Valencia
- Don Quixote
- Lorca
- The Palacios Reales in Madrid, which really are stunning, much as I only went inside because I had nothing else to do on a Sunday afternoon
- The Prado and the Reina Sofia art museums

And, more than anything else:

- Cádiz