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Yeah, OK, I suck and I should have posted about DebConf 9 while I was there or shortly afterwards. Well, I've been busy with various things (or, to be more specific, one person \o/). I'm slowly catching up on stuff now, so I thought I'd write something and link to some photos!

I drove down from the UK with Neil, Chris and Chris and we had a good trip. We left Cambridge really early on Wednesday the 22nd, stopped at Le Mans for lunch, then headed to San Sebastian overnight. The French autoroutes were mostly empty and we made very good time, swapping drivers every two hours.

The venue was superb, with just about all the facilities we needed on site. And there was a handy outdoor bar in the park just up the street. Yay!

As always, it was excellent to meet up with Debian friends old and new from all over the world. The DebConf team did a great job of making the conference happen and I had a wonderful time, as did everybody else I spoke to.

There was an official day trip involved, but as we had 2 cars from the UK a group of us rebelled and made our own trip out to do touristy things. We visited the Roman ruins in Merida (photos here), then as we were so close to Portugal we decided to head over the border and found the lovely old town of Elvas.

After the conference, we headed slowly back up to the north coast of Spain, stopping over in Madrid and then Bilbao before catching the overnight ferry back to England. Along the way on that trip we saw a few sights such as the historic city of Pamplona and the "Valley of the Fallen", the monument to people killed in the Spanish Civil War.

I got back to Cambridge late on Monday the 3rd, tired but happy. We'd done 2,400 or so miles in the car and several hundred more on the ferry, and we'd all had a great journey. We saw some silly stuff along the way too, and I'll post more about those soon.

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Re: Cool DebConf
gregoa wrote on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:05

calling the valle de los caídos just a "monument to people killed in the Spanish Civil War" downplays what it really is: a fascist monument and place of pilgrimage, built by forced labour and still celebrating nationalist forces that overthrew a democratically elected government.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valle_de_los_Ca%C3%ADdos might serve as a very restrained starting point for this nuisance.

Re: Cool DebConf
Cek wrote on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:11

Was going to write about "Valle de los Caídos", but the previous comment is also my comment ;)

Re: Cool DebConf
jordi wrote on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:41

Happily gregoa has written before me what I wanted to write. :)

Re: Cool DebConf
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:52

I liked the "one person \o/" part :-)

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