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Delderek · Sat 19 Dec 2015, 10:23

Leaving home at 9:35, then not being able to get home for at least 4 hours, is not organising yourself. Its life being organised for you.

Janet · Sat 19 Dec 2015, 10:28

like in the UK there weren't queues of wrinklies at bus-stops already at 9am waiting for their free card to become valid ... used to take me ages to get down the Otley Road because of it.

I don't really see the issue. Buses are an inconvenience ... so get a car ... don't want to drive? ... so get a taxi ... can't afford a taxi? get the bus and accept you can't afford or don't want to do the alternatives. Or walk ...

God I sound like Katie Hopkins ...

Nova · Sat 19 Dec 2015, 10:38

Most people don't retire to Tenerife just to sit at home all day popping out only for essentials. They'd use any extra time to look round the shops in Las Galletas, have lunch on the seafront, meet up with friends. Being organised also means "while I'm going out anyway, I might as well do this and go there.... then I can nicely catch this bus back and I won't need to go again on Friday". Sorry to bring Michael into this again, but catching a bus to Los Cristianos just to buy envelopes, then doing it all again a few days later because you've realised you also need address labels, is very much a car-owner's mentality. No bus service anywhere is adequate for that sort of "organisation".

And Del there are buses before 9.35, you could get to El Fraile on the bus and be home in time for breakfast, without walking anywhere!

Perikles · Sat 19 Dec 2015, 10:52

Quote from: Nova on Sat 19 Dec 2015, 10:38
Most people don't retire to Tenerife just to sit at home all day popping out only for essentials.

I do

Nova · Sat 19 Dec 2015, 10:57

Quote from: Perikles on Wed 9 Dec 2015, 08:27
Aspies don´t count

Myrtle Hogan-Lance · Sat 19 Dec 2015, 11:31

I'm with Nova on this one. My friend Michael from LA, where cars are part of the fabric of life and he's a real petrolhead, loved riding the buses around here. He preferred it to a rental car. You do have to organise yourself, but as she rightly states, it is getting out of the car owner mentality and into the bus rider mentality.

And the service, even on weekends, in and out of Puerto Santiago really is quite good.

Delderek · Sat 19 Dec 2015, 11:51

QuoteAnd Del there are buses before 9.35, you could get to El Fraile on the bus and be home in time for breakfast, without walking anywhere!

Not if you don't get up till 9:40. OK Del now gives up, got a bus to catch, it's due on Monday.

Nova · Sat 19 Dec 2015, 12:10

I know you're just trying to wind me up now, but I had a friend like that and plans were just impossible. One time we were supposed to be going to Alton Towers for the day but he didn't wake up until 11am, as I found out when I eventually got through to him on the phone after sitting around dressed and with picnic in hand growing increasingly anxious for the past two hours. Another time he was coming to spend the weekend with me in Newcastle, but he phoned me just as I was about to leave to pick him up from the station to say that he'd just woken up, missing his train by about 4 hours. Those who can't get up early when they have somewhere to be never cope with public transport, and can't lead a semblance of a normal life even with a car - and I don't think my friend ever did learn to drive....

Delderek · Sat 19 Dec 2015, 12:42

QuoteI know you're just trying to wind me up now,

Would I ever do that.

Michael · Sat 19 Dec 2015, 17:34

Quote from: Delderek on Sat 19 Dec 2015, 12:42
Would I ever do that.

Does a bear shit in the woods?

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