Paralización de trenes AVE en Madrid por fallo informático

La red de trenes AVE con origen o destino Madrid ha sufrido una parálisis parcial debido a un problema informático relacionado con una caída de los servidores de Adif. Esta incidencia ha afectado a los viajeros de diversas rutas, con algunos trenes presentando retrasos de más de una hora. Adif ha in... [Ver más]

Finally got a pic of the hummingbird. It was feeding at the jewelweed, then sat on the jackfruit tree before flying off.

Pardon the blur, really scrolled in for the shot.

#gardening #jardin #garten #birds #vogel #ave #oiseaux #鸟 #nature #wildlife

I guess I just found the worst #booking system possible: the spanish #renfe. After doing all the countless steps to book a two-way trip with #AVE (select trains, select options, enter all passenger info even including document IDs, select payment method), it stops with an uncomprehensible error message and all you can do is "accept" you can't book this 🤯

Finally found the cause of the error: there were no seats left on the train back in the category I tried to book. I learned this by trying to book at some reseller, THEIR system could tell me.

So, went back to renfe and booked there (to avoid the extra provision of the reseller), selecting the "better" ("first class"?) category for the return, which finally worked fine.

I'm still happy with what I got: less than 50€ in total for a two-way trip, distance almost 150km, in a modern high-speed train taking just an hour, for an adult and a child ... that's an awesome price compared to e.g. germany. But their booking system is seriously from hell.