The baldie is fled, long live the baldie!
The business (basically a CRM database) passed into better hands in 2012. These materials remain here for cannibalisation and amusement.
The baldie meanwhile has found pastures new: as a singing organ-grinder for your event in the UK, France, Belgium, the Netherlands or Spain!
- Cruise & weekend favourites
- in 4 hours without feeling like a stupid tourist.
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- Why FollowTheBaldie?
- Language All our guides are native English speakers and speak the local language fluently.
- Knowledge Our local and subject knowledge is profound and up-to-date.
- Interactivity See someone interesting? We'll interpret. Tired/full of energy? We can adapt the programme.
- Individuality We don't do herd tourism. No silly flags. No headsets.
- Responsibility Unlike most "green" tour businesses, we only use public transport--cheaper and generally more interesting.
Please God let Deutsche Bahn run Spain’s trains
For example, a decade later, Deutsche Bahn continues to offer better Spanish timetable info than Renfe, the data's owner, and in English.
Tudela to Vitoria on August 29. Renfe's route planner:
00622 ALVIA 12.12 14.08 1 h. 56 min.
DB:
dep 07:13 arr 09:50 2:37 1 R
dep 12:12 arr 14:08 1:56 0 A
dep 15:12 arr 17:49 2:37 1 R
You see, those scheming Germans have used the same data but added a hundred lines of code to include train changes in the results, and it's been that way for a decade.
Both companies currently have the ability to add another hundred lines and enable cyclists to select a bike-permissive service. The German site says they can do it but then backs off with the feeble excuse that they can't invoice the result. The Spanish site doesn't even mention the topic, and customer service in Barcelona may actually give you false information about availability in other parts of Spain.
No guesses as to who will crack these nuts first, whatever the cost to German taxpayers. Even better would be to copy some aspects of British liberalisation and open up data access so that more or less anyone can set up a timetable and ticket purchase site, but neither the Spanish nor the German state operates like that.
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A Dutch client having her hair done by a travelling stylist in a village bar on this Barcelona country walk.
But make sure they improve their air conditioning. http://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/deutsche-bahn-probleme-in-den-zuegen-mit-der-klimaanlage-bei-hitze-a-850974.html
Oh, I've been using the Reichsbahn website for years to work out the best connections between Jerez de la Frontera and Málaga. The connections are usually at Dos Hermanas and Bobadilla, but you'd never be able to find that out from the RENFE website...