Re: [Debconf-discuss] Regarding vaccinations and stuff like that
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:05:38PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > That is a bit more important. If you are going to visit the Iguazu Falls, > located in Misiones, then it might be a good idea to take the yellow fever > vaccination. However, taking into account that we are in the middle of > winter, and the yellow fever is transmited via mosquitos, the risk is > almost none. So, if you don't have time to take the vaccination, it > doesn't mean you can't visit the falls anyway. By the way: what does winter in Mar Del Plata mean? What degrees do I need to prepare me for? (Being used to European winters only...) Kind regards, Philipp Kern -- .''`. Philipp Kern Debian Developer : :' : http://philkern.de Debian Release Assistant `. `' xmpp:[EMAIL PROTECTED] `-finger pkern/[EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Regarding vaccinations and stuff like that
Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A further addition: Hepatitis needs two vaccinations the second about > at least three better six weeks after the first. [...] I believe this may vary depending on the vaccine used. I think I was told that I need a second vaccination in a few months' time (the first was a few weeks before a recent trip to Cuba) if I want 20 years protection, but I don't have my vaccination card to hand just now. Maybe they used a different vaccine because I was relatively late going. So if you haven't been to your medical centre yet, please go ASAP. Regards, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Regarding vaccinations and stuff like that
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 11:06 +0200, Philipp Kern wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:05:38PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > > That is a bit more important. If you are going to visit the Iguazu Falls, > > located in Misiones, then it might be a good idea to take the yellow fever > > vaccination. However, taking into account that we are in the middle of > > winter, and the yellow fever is transmited via mosquitos, the risk is > > almost none. So, if you don't have time to take the vaccination, it > > doesn't mean you can't visit the falls anyway. > > By the way: what does winter in Mar Del Plata mean? What degrees do I > need to prepare me for? (Being used to European winters only...) http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=7164 -- Neil Williams = http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Regarding vaccinations and stuff like that
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Neil Williams wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?world=7164 Ups, that's no winter. We can go for a swim every day! What's the distance between Hotel and beach?? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Regarding vaccinations and stuff like that
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, MJ Ray wrote: > I believe this may vary depending on the vaccine used. I think I was > told that I need a second vaccination in a few months' time (the first > was a few weeks before a recent trip to Cuba) if I want 20 years > protection, but I don't have my vaccination card to hand just now. > Maybe they used a different vaccine because I was relatively late going. Well, the optimal situation is having a first, having a second some weeks later to reach immunisation status and having a third some month later to get long term protection. I don't remember the exact numbers and it might vary anyway. > So if you haven't been to your medical centre yet, please go ASAP. This is true in any case Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
[Debconf-discuss] driving toward south Argentina after DebConf8: how about roads?
Hi all, after DebConf8 I'll have some VAC in South Argentina, heading towards Tierra del Fuego. A possibility I'm considering is traveling a good deal of kilometers by (rent) car. However, I've no idea about which kinds of road can I expect driving south. I've seen that there are a handful of highways: are they in good shape? which average speed can I assume to travel on them? What about the other, non-highways, roads? If the question sound silly ... don't get me started on the situation of highways in the south of Italy ;), the average speed there can be *really* low. TIA, Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
[Debconf-discuss] Regarding weather / beach / sea in Mar del Plata
Hi! For all of you coming to Argentina from the North Hemisphere, please remember that seasons are inverted and August in the South means *winter*. Bring warm clothes. Bring a sweater and a jacket with you on the plane. You don't want to wait until you have your luggage to put them on. You might be wondering what kind of weather you'll face. Winter in Mar del Plata is not too bad. Statistically [1], the average maximum temperature in August is 14 °C (58 °F) and the average minimum temperature is 4 °C (39 °F). With 64 mm (2.52 inches) of rain during the month. Last year [2], the maximum temperature in August was 17 °C (63 °C), and the minimum temperature -4 °C (24 °F), and there were 34 mm (1.35 inches) of rain. >From experience I can tell you that you can expect some nice sunny days, when spending the afternoon on the beach might be really nice, and you can also expect some ugly rainy days when you will be glad that all DebConf happens in the same place, with good heating. And if we are lucky/unlucky (depending on your point of view) we can even get some quick-to-melt snow. Regarding going to the sea, don't count on it. Our sea is not bathed by any warm current (like the Gulf Current for you guys in the North), so that even in summer the sea is very cold. So, if you don't want to go down with hipothermia, I suggest you don't go further than just getting your feet wet. Anyway, for those that wanted to know, the hotel is just in front of the beach, a few hundred meters from the waterline. [1]: http://www.wunderground.com/NORMS/DisplayIntlNORMS.asp?CityCode=87692&Units=both [2]: http://www.wunderground.com/history/station/87692/2007/8/10/MonthlyHistory.html -- Bessos,(o_ Marga. (\)_ ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] driving toward south Argentina after DebConf8: how about roads?
Hi, On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 09:41, Stefano Zacchiroli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > after DebConf8 I'll have some VAC in South Argentina, heading towards > Tierra del Fuego. A possibility I'm considering is traveling a good deal > of kilometers by (rent) car. > > However, I've no idea about which kinds of road can I expect driving > south. I've seen that there are a handful of highways: are they in good > shape? which average speed can I assume to travel on them? What about > the other, non-highways, roads? There aren't much highways here. The only two I remember for long-distance trips are the one going from Buenos Aires to Rosario, and the other from Buenos Aires to Mar del Plata. The rest are usual 2-track roads. Maximum speed is usually 100-130 km/h, except when the road goes thru towns, there you have to go below 40. The national roads are usually usable, but that depends on where you go. FOr Tierra del Fuego you don't even have a direct road, you have to cross to Chile and then come back. If you're going along the Andes, you'll probably take the 40, which is not paved in some places. Tincho. -- Martín Ferrari ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] driving toward south Argentina after DebConf8: how about roads?
> Hi all, > after DebConf8 I'll have some VAC in South Argentina, heading towards > Tierra del Fuego. A possibility I'm considering is traveling a good deal > of kilometers by (rent) car. > > However, I've no idea about which kinds of road can I expect driving > south. I've seen that there are a handful of highways: are they in good > shape? which average speed can I assume to travel on them? What about > the other, non-highways, roads? > > If the question sound silly ... don't get me started on the situation of > highways in the south of Italy ;), the average speed there can be > *really* low. > > TIA, > Cheers. > > Stefano, Well, did that trip some years ago by car. The roads are not good. The 1st part of the trip its mostly desertic and straight, quite boring, but its on asphalt. Then you have few kilometers of gravel road. The places I would advice you to visit are: Bariloche, San Martin de los Andes, El Chalten (not so popular but I loved it), El Calafate and Ushuaia. Also have in mind that you have 3171kms from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia and its winter, the roads might be frozen. m* ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Regarding weather / beach / sea in Mar del Plata
On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Margarita Manterola wrote: Regarding going to the sea, don't count on it. Our sea is not bathed by any warm current (like the Gulf Current for you guys in the North), so that even in summer the sea is very cold. So, if you don't want to go down with hipothermia, I suggest you don't go further than just getting your feet wet. Hmmm, that depends. I expect it to be not much below 10° considering the outer temperatures - that's no temperature which would stop me from enjoing a (short) bath... Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Cheese party
Hola Christian Perrier! El 08/07/2008 a las 20:34 escribiste: > Well, we're now 1 month ahead from DebConf and its most important > event apart from the DPL talk: the Cheese&Wine party. Please take into account that the current regulations, are quite similar to the limitations we had in Edinburgh. They don't allow importing non vacuum packed foods, and only 2L of wine (if you come from a non neighbour country, only 1L if you come from a neighbour country). In fact the regulations aren't clear, so vacuum packed dairy products might be allowed/disallowed depending on the good will of the customs officer. As in many other countries, there is a button that gives you either green or red light, but most of the time the officers will just pick "randomly" who to check. So, word of advise: Bring only a moderate quantity, and if the customs officer complains, you might need to leave the cheese with him. Luggage regulations (spanish only): http://www.aduanaargentina.com/b_lr.php Import and Export General Luggage Regime: http://www.afip.gov.ar/english/touristInformation.asp Custom declaration form (for travellers from a non neighbor country): http://www.afip.gov.ar/Aduana/boletines/boletines/1999/Image138.gif http://www.afip.gov.ar/Aduana/boletines/boletines/1999/Image139.gif Custom declaration form (for travellers from a neighbor country): http://www.afip.gov.ar/Aduana/boletines/boletines/1999/Image140.gif http://www.afip.gov.ar/Aduana/boletines/boletines/1999/Image141.gif -- Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree. Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/ ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Regarding weather / beach / sea in Mar del Plata
Hola Andreas Tille! >> Regarding going to the sea, don't count on it. Our sea is not bathed by >> any warm current (like the Gulf Current for you guys in the North), so that >> even in summer the sea is very cold. So, if you don't want to go down with >> hipothermia, I suggest you don't go further than just getting your feet >> wet. > > Hmmm, that depends. I expect it to be not much below 10° considering > the outer temperatures - that's no temperature which would stop me > from enjoing a (short) bath... According to [1], it's 9 °C in August. I wouldn't dare taking a bath in it, but if you know what you are doing and still want it, I guess nobody will stop you :). [1]: http://www.weather2travel.com/climate-guides/index.php?destination=mar-del-plata -- Bessos,(o_ Marga. (\)_ ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
[Debconf-discuss] DebConf 8 website: a call for help
Follows a copy of what I just posted to the DC blog: DebConf 8 is approaching and our website is clearly not what we'd like it to be. It turns out that compiling all the useful stuff that travellers might need is not easy, so we kindly ask you —dear lazyweb—, to lend us a hand. The most important thing we need, is to recognise missing data. When you're a local, is difficult to know what foreigners might need to know. So, even if you don't know the country, your different point of view could help. The second thing is to actually get articles written, some stuff ought to be written by locals, but the majority can be researched from the web (as we already did!). Proof-reading and checking translation is also appreciated. Send us your patches, comments and suggestions to the website queue at the RT system, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't sweat over formatting: plain text is OK, if you want to provide markup, please use very spartan XHTML Strict. -- Martín Ferrari ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] driving toward south Argentina after DebConf8: how about roads?
Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi all, > after DebConf8 I'll have some VAC in South Argentina, heading towards > Tierra del Fuego. A possibility I'm considering is traveling a good deal > of kilometers by (rent) car. > > However, I've no idea about which kinds of road can I expect driving > south. I've seen that there are a handful of highways: are they in good > shape? which average speed can I assume to travel on them? What about > the other, non-highways, roads? This is a trip I considered to do with my family before or after Debconf. We finally gave up for two reasons: - price.. A 5-adults trip like this is fairly expensive. That argument does maybe not apply to you. We were not considering driving down there because of the distances and the road status and the price of flights were really dissuasive when added to the price of Europe-Argentina flights - winter. This is winter and Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego is probably faily hard to travel in. As others pointed, it may involve going through Chile, crossing region where winds can be the strongest ones in the world. In winter, I imagine this not to be something really enjoyable. So, we decided we would come back in the future, probably at times where such traval will involve only two people (aka e and my wife) and in summer..:-) My personal opinion is that if you plan some tourist trip in ARG around Debconf, good places to go could be the North-West part if you enjoy mountains and the like. That could include a hook in North Chile as well, around Atacama, to see the best skies in the world. At least, this is what *I* would do..:-). Of course, classical stuff like Iguazu region is also an option... ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
Re: [Debconf-discuss] Regarding weather / beach / sea in Mar del Plata
Quoting Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hmmm, that depends. I expect it to be not much below 10° considering > the outer temperatures - that's no temperature which would stop me > from enjoing a (short) bath... Folks reading this, please notice that the only access of Germany to the sea is the North Sea. Please also consider that Andreas is a "grandfather" raised in former Eastern Germany, which only access to the sea is the *Baltic Sea*. That might put things in perspective. (/me waves to Andreas...) ___ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
