John:
It was pretty warm today, around 26C, and I had a couple of hours on the bus: a different one to the picture, I catch the Linea 17 to my lunchtime lesson. Each bus line has a different colour scheme, and they all seem to have some frills around the mirrors or the sun visor. The 17 is dull though, green and usually old, and usually responsible for significant particulate pollution in the city.

I just want to get a seat.

When you get on you just say to the driver 'Ochenta' (80) and put your coins in the machine just behind him. As soon as people are on the step he sets off, no waiting for people to pay, he's gone, I think they get extra points when they hit 60mph in the narrow downtown city streets. And they seem to do that with astonishing regularity.

Oh and they run every 10 minutes or so (except Sundays, when they run half as often) through the day, and they carry on through the night, as we can testify... noisy buses...  ¶ 2:15 AM