[Sir Trev]

Santander Cycles. Or rather, their app. What an utter pile of garbage.

Went on a reluctant trip to London yesterday for the annual lunch and drinking session with my old uni friends. It's a convenient location from a transport perspective but I dread it because of the transport, ironically. As most of us still work its always a Saturday, and no matter what time you travel the train is always overcrowded hell on the way in. Same on way back - crowded round a monitor waiting for the platform to be announced and then running down the length of the train along with three hundred others all hoping for a seat...

I also hate using the Tube, partly as I don't like crowds but there is also a lot of flu about right now. So I updated the Santander Cycles app on my phone the day before, made sure it had updated payment details on it, and planned my route. Only, it refused to work as I'm stood beside the e-bike I wanted to hire in a rack close to Marylebone Station. Re-entered my payment details (holding a phone and credit card openly in London is not always safe!) but it still didn't work. After much swearing I walked the route instead. Note, you can only hire the e-bikes via the app, so the terminal at the docking station is no use, and as the older manual bikes are rubbish I did not want to use those.

The only upside is my Fitbit registered over 16,000 steps for the day. And my knees know it today.