the C5 is back!

05 Wednesday Feb 2025

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As of Monday the C5 circular bus route is back in action after a five-year absence. The latest version of this tiny electric microbus is 6 metres long, has seating for 12 (standing room for 8) including space reserved for people with reduced mobility and wheelchair access. The circular route is similar to the old one and is especially useful for residents in these areas where the streets are too narrow for any other public transport. For example, it stops directly next to my health centre (!!) which I discovered when Peter and I rode the C5 this afternoon. Although it takes a bit longer as it’s not exactly a direct route (see below) it would have been handy when I went to the health centre in the pouring rain on Monday.

There are four mini buses in service and they run every 30 minutes. As well as connecting residents to shops and services in the Casco Antiguo, it’s also a great alternative sightseeing bus. Though the route is not quite so winding and seemingly random as it used to be, it’s good to see it back.

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04 Tuesday Feb 2025

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Yay! I’ve reached 100 subscribers (with 5 paid ones!) in my first month on Substack. If you haven’t done so already please go have a look at this new project of mine and, if you like what you see, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Free subscriber numbers do make a difference in terms of visibility on the site, so they are also very appreciated (if you don’t mind me popping into your email inbox every now and again). I’m actually having a lot of fun with this. Hope others are enjoying it too.

BITESIZE SEVILLA

not the hand!!!

03 Monday Feb 2025

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Fucking hell. Booked blood test appointments for both me and Peter about ten days ago, of course not knowing that on this particular day, and only for the time we’d be having to get from the house to the Health Centre, it would be totally bucketing down like fuckity. Got there totally soaked through and exhausted (had to get by with only one crutch so I could carry the umbrella) and then OF COURSE the nurse couldn’t find a vein. So eventually I got it IN THE HAND. Damn that hurts.

Walked out of the centre and it was all blue skies and I mean wtf. But whatever. Went for breakfast, came home and thought… well that’s Monday done (it was only 11.00 am). Turns out it wasn’t done, but there was no way I was going out again. One thing this one crutch plus umbrella experiment proved is that I really do need both crutches to walk outside. I mean, yes I can walk without crutches (like I do at home) and even outside with just one (like today) but the result of walking without proper support is that it fucks me up. At home I only have to get from one room to the next one, outside the streets are uneven, and I’m obviously walking for a longer stretch. And it really hurts.

Because while it also hurts at home, and I end up walking like a penguin, it only hurts from the living room to the bathroom, or wherever. Not the same as hurting for half an hour or more on a walk that should only take ten minutes. Avoiding the penguin walk also means I am able to walk correctly and upright and avoid doing even more damage to by back, hip and all those other joints. So… crutches it is. For the foreseeable…