¿Quien soy yo y adónde voy?

A month from today I'll be in Spain, embarking on a 28-day research voyage that I also hope will help me avoid the kind of conversation I had at a BBQ this weekend:
Intrepid Reporter "M": How do you say lukewarm in Spanish?
SJB: um...
I.R. "M": ¿Caliente-frio?
SJB: um...^*

My non-classroom vocabulary always suffers when I haven't been to Spain in awhile.

Here's the proposed itinerary (light blue lines indicate possible side trips) and dates (click on the pin markers):

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Now all I need to do is find places to stay in Barcelona and Madrid; read all the things I didn't have time to read during the semester but need to have read before I hit the Biblioteca Nacional; catalog the books and films I own, so I don't buy anything I already have; and figure out where I need to go in each city and what I need to show them to prove that I'm an eminent scholar who needs access to whatever they've got. Among other things...

^* Augh! It's tibio.