For the past few days I spend quite a lot of time trying different combinations of planes, trains and whatnot to find the cheapest and more convenient way to Cáceres. Finally I settled for a pricey ticket to Lisbon which was quite convenient time-wise, and allows me to pay a visit to some friends.

So yes, I'm going to DC9! I'll be arriving the 25 in the morning (if this morons who cannot build a website finnaly decide to sell me a ticket), and I'll stay until the 30 in the night.

So, having solved this pressing issue, I went to see what La Fête de Saint Jean was about. There were announcements about the celebration in the neighbouring town of Valbonne. So I went there, got my small torch, marched with hundreds of people across the old town to the big bonfire, escorted by a marching jazz band and finally jumped over the fire, as the tradition indicates. It was a nice experience, and it felt quite authentic, there were not many people speaking english around

(Image from YeTI78's flickr album, my camera is broken)

While playing with different ways to bypass the stupid firewall that I have at my current home, I found that the Google servers for XMPP/Jabber/Gtalk accept connections on port 443. So, next time you cannot connect with the standard 5222 port, you know what to try.