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We check the bus timetable online before heading to the bus stop for the 07.57. We check the timetable again and, oh joy, this is now the winter schedule which hasn't been updated online and the bus is due slightly earlier than expected. However, that time is for the far side of the bay, before getting round to us, and it didn't pass us walking down and rush hour is starting so there's lots of traffic so we should be fine.

We wait. Plainly we're not fine. Time drags. The next one is now due but doesn't show. We wait. We've now been waiting for an hour and the next one is due but we've had enough. We've lost enough of a chunk of our day trip for it not to be worthwhile. We drag ourselves home, keeping an eye out for the elusive next bus but that doesn't show in the time we're going back and watching out for it.

Chatting with our neighbour, he confirms that buses just not arriving is nothing unusual at all. I'm getting a bit irritated with how difficult it is to get around this island.En savoir plus