mastodon 4.7.3From Dublin, Ireland
Living in Málaga, Spain
I joined the Fediverse originally because I was curious about the #openstreetmap instance, then found lots of interesting things about my other interests such as #photography, #hiking, and travelling by #train.
All these interests are also reflected in my photos on Flickr and Pixelfed.
I had a personal website/blog way back in the 00s, and will definitely certainly 100% get around to reviving it some day soon. Soonish.
Did I run a whole half marathon just to take advantage of being able to clock up 5 new kilometres in Wandrer.earth, by running on streets closed to traffic?
No. That would be crazy.
Did I deliberately run close to the central reservations, so that Wandrer would be able to tell the route apart from parallel footpaths I've already covered? Well... maybe.
Renfe's new tool for visualising the real-time position of long and medium distance trains is grimly fascinating.
It's 10.30 a.m. and in the area of this map covering Algeciras, Málaga, Granada, and Almería - an area with well over 3 million inhabitants - only 5 trains are in motion (and only 1 of those is on time).
The tool doesn't display substitute bus services - there are probably a few on the road north of Málaga, which is still cut off from the high speed network.
Renfe has seen the future, and it's buses. Lots of them. A whole new subsidiary dedicated to providing bus transport to people who really wanted to be on a train.