• Matthieu flying to France on March 11th
• Kristy flying to France on March 18th
• Weekend with Leslie in Brussels – March 19th-20th
• Travel to Naples and Rome – March 27th – Arpil 2nd
• Back to Boston – April 3rd

Travel

Paris-Brussels (Thalys ~100-200€ / 2 pers)

Italy details

Schedule

• March 27th – Flying to Naples, afternoon in Naples
• March 28th – Naples
• March 29th – Naples
• March 30th – Day in Naples and get to Rome in the evening
• March 31st – Rome
• April 1st – Rome
• April 2nd – Day in Rome, flying back to Paris in the evening

Lodging

Naples (3 nights):
Hotel Désirée (Sorrento) ~60€/night Booked
Hotel Elios (Sorrento)

Rome (3 nights):
Smeraldo Hotel ~150€/night Booked
Hotel Navona ~100€/night?
Trasteverina B&B 80-120€/night
Due Torri Hotel ~160€/night
Hotel In Perione
Pomezia Hotel 80-150€/night
Arenula Hotel 133€/night

Travel

Naples to Rome (March 30th afternoon):
Fast train (~1h10) -> $130 for 2 pers
Regular train (~2h) -> $60 for 2 pers

I have a page with some public photos and another page with a lot more photos on the private part of my site here (password required, shoot me an email if you need a password)

cd /usr/src/
apt-get source php5
apt-get build-dep php5
cd php5-5.2.6.dfsg.1/
nano debian/rules
(replace '--with-gd=shared,/usr --enable-gd-native-ttf \' with '--with-gd=shared --enable-gd-native-ttf \')
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
cd ..
dpkg -i *.deb
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

There are plenty of tutorials on how to add a network printer in Windows XP, my problem was that there was no drivers for my printer in the list from the setup wizard even though I had installed them on the computer. Instead I had to manually found them using the “Have Disk…” option, but there were not obvious to find. There were at:
C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\{5372B9A6-6E51-4f90-9B40-E0A3B8475C4E}\enu\drivers\win2k_xp\hphp2k12.inf

Tentative Schedule (revised)

• Feb 11: Fly to Buenos Aires, arrive 12th in the morning
• Feb 12: Fly to Bariloche, get car
  4 nights in Bariloche (not the 13) El Gaucho (booked) (or La Bolsa, Perikos)
• Feb 13: La Ruta de los Siete Lagos, drive to San Martin de los Andes
  Stay at Rukalhue hostel (booked)
• Feb 14: Hike around San Martin de los Andes then back to Bariloche
• Feb 15: Rafting or Biking or Hiking around Bariloche
• Feb 16: Rafting or Biking or Hiking around Bariloche
• Feb 17: Bariloche -> Perito Moreno (Bus ~12/14h)
• Feb 18: Perito Moreno -> El Chalten (Bus ~12/14h) + stop at Cueva de las manos
  4 nights at El Chalten Inlandsis, Nothofagus B&B or Albergue Patagonia (booked) or Condor de los Andes
• Feb 19: Chill or hike in El Chalten (no need for car)
• Feb 20: Hike/Canoe/Horse riding around El Chalten
• Feb 21: Hike/Canoe/Horse riding around El Chalten
• Feb 22: Bus to El Calafate ~4h
  2 nights in El Calafate America del Sur Hostel (booked)
• Feb 23: Glaciar Perito Moreno (maybe get a car for the day)
• Feb 24: Drop car in El Calafate and fly to Ushuaia
  2 nights in Ushuaia Cruz del Sur (booked) or La Casa de Tere
• Feb 25: Beagle channel boat tour
• Feb 26: Hike in Tierra del Fuego National Park, fly to Buenos Aires at night
  2 nights in BA maybe America del Sur Hostel?
• Feb 27: Buenos Aires
• Feb 28: Buenos Aires then Fly back home at night

Alternative (only paved road so no need for 4×4)

• Feb 17: Bariloche -> Comodoro Rivadavia
• Feb 18: Comodoro Rivadavia -> Puerto San Julian + stop at Bosque Petrificado NP
• Feb 19: Puerto San Julian -> El Chalten

Budget
Providence – Buenos Aires flight ~$1400
Buenos Aires – San Martin de los Andes Bariloche ~$220 one way
El Calafate – Ushuaia ~$190 one way
Ushuaia – Buenos Aires ~$160 one way
4×4 rental from San Martin 13/02 to El Calafate 24/02 ~$2900
Rent car for 4 days in Bariloche ~$180
Bus Bariloche – El Chalten $200/pers
Bus El Chalten – El Calafate $?/pers
Rent car for 3-4 days in El Chalten and/or 2 days in El Calafate ~$180

We also visited the Museum of Modern Arts (nice but super crowded) and the Intrepid Museum. The latest was pretty cool, it’s a military museum setup on a world war II aircraft carrier. I’m not really into the military stuff but it was pretty cool to actually walk around that ship.

In order to make this commute bearable I definitely need some good tunes… and unfortunately I don’t find any of those on Boston area radio stations (except perhaps WERS which has some good stuff). I can listen to my iPod… but it can get repetitive as I am not buying as much music as before, and I start to know my collection.

So I was thinking of a way to be able to listen to my favorite radio station: Radio Nova. The problem is that it is a French radio and my antenna is not powerful enough to get the signal .

The solution was to record the radio from the web broadcast, make it available as a podcast and sync my iPod in the morning before leaving for work. Et voila, a few hours of music, news and French speaking people… everything that will help get over my morning grumpiness!

And with the time difference between France and the US it even feels like live radio, I get the morning news almost at the time it was broadcast

On a technical level this is how it works:
I setup cron jobs on my web server to record Radio Nova stream from the web, using streamripper. Then I inject some meta data in the recorded file with id3v2. And finally the file gets published as a podcast thanks to DirCaster. In the morning I sync up my iPod with the podcasts that were recorded earlier in the night and I’m good to go.

I’m not really sure how legal it would be to make these recordings public, so I won’t do it, but if you’re interested leave me a comment and I’m sure we can work it out.

Luckily I found it on this site

I decided to make it available as well in case it becomes unavailable at www.nextdestination.com.au.

Here is the decription of this patch:

MapSend WorldWide BaseMap Patch 1.30. This patch adds the ablility to make WorldWide BaseMap regions for eXplorist 210, 400, 500, 600 and XL GPS receivers and it fixes issues with XP Service Pack 2 for any owner of WWBM versions prior to v1.10.

Click to download MapSend WorldWide BaseMap Patch v1.30