Renting Cars in EU with US License

Hi!

I am looking for some advice on renting cars in the EU. DH and I are thinking about flying to Spain and doing a road trip holiday from Barcelona to Rome.

A few of the sites I looked up had mostly manual cars. I haven't driven a manual in 10 years, so would prefer to drive automatic, but one site that had them was charging 3x the price of a manual (must know Americans will pay it  )!

Also some of the sites did not take US licenses.

Are there any good companies for Americans living in the UK renting cars in the EU?

Thanks!

We rented a car in Spain back in 2006, using my US license back then.  It was from this place:

http://www.mondialautos.com/

I think it was a manual that we rented, but it's been so long I really can't remember.  We rented the car for a week but it was only for inside Spain.

DH found more favourable rental rates when he went onto actual Spanish websites/companies for the hire car - which works fine if you are comfortable using the language in question.  Although Mondial appears to have an English language version of the website now - they didn't back then.

HTH - just to say that's who we used on the one trip.