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Recent blog posts

Barcelona to Madrid: Flights and High Speed Rail In just a few short days, on 5 October 2026, Vueling flight number VY1010 will be on its way to Madrid after taking off from Barcelona at 07:25. The roughly 485 kilometres between the two Spanish cities takes 1 hour and 25 minutes in flight time and has enough demand that Vueling decided to restart this service after having given up this route in March 2025. When this restart was announced over th Read more.
Access S3 Tables in QuickSight without Athena Over the summer AWS announced S3 Tables buckets were natively supported by QuickSight (yes, I'm still calling it QuickSight, not Quick). This meant simplifying a process I talked about earlier on using Athena as a middle-layer between QuickSight and S3 Tables when creating data sources. I just got the time to give it a go, and I think the AWS docs could use some clarifying. The S3 docs, Quick docs Read more.
Jardines de la Rambla de Sants The _Jardines de la Rambla de Sants_ starts at Plaça de Sants and goes roughly 760 metres south-west over the Mercat Nou and Santa Eulàlia metro stations. Unlike most metro stations here in Barcelona, Mercat Nou and Santa Eulàlia aren't undergoround which means the park is actually elevated. Beside the metro line is also the Rodalies train tracks carrying commuters on the R1, R2, R3, R4, R13, R15 Read more.
Trains to Hamburg again? Sort of. Earlier this year, I shared how excited I was for a direct service between Amsterdam and Hamburg by GoVolta. This rail link could have also provided a hop to Denmark and the rest of Scandinavia, especially as it lined up with GoVolta's expansion plans. Unfortunately, that didn't last long and the service to Hamburg was cancelled only three months after starting. According to Thibault Lapers from m Read more.

Recent toots

In the same theme I've written about train spotting at Jardines de la Rambla de Sants. This is my new favourite location, lots of trains a nice park and easy to get to with the metro. https://blog.pesky.moe/posts/2026-09-26-jardines-sants/ Read more.
@aproposnix I cannot unsee it now. Read more.
Rain jacket held up well. Impressed. Read more.

Recent beer check-ins

Pesky P. is drinking a San Miguel Premium Especial by Mahou-San Miguel View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a Cosmic Blond by Uiltje Brewing Company View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking an IPA by Honest Greens at Honest Greens View check-in.
Pesky P. is drinking a NIJPA by Brouwerij 't IJ View check-in.

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