Hope this will display – also trying to get the routes to show as well.
I was staying in the Saray Hotel (marked with the green hostel icon on the right), and walked through the streets of the Turkish section of the old town to just outside the walls, there I turned left and approached the UN buffer zone (between the two little inspector icons). The next few hundred metres, both before and after the Greek Cypriot checkpoint, are a combination of international community buildings and houses still devastated from 1974; the hostel icon between the checkpoints marks the Ledra Palace Hotel, where I was last year. The transition to suburban sprawl is pretty sudden and by the time I reached the car hire place I could have been in any Mediterranean country.
Totqal distance: almost exactly a mile. Shame that one of the wheels on my pull-along case went wonky at a very early stage…
Higgins looks like he will enter the race now.
As for Sinn Féin providing better services, I’m struggling to see how they do. They campaigned fiercer than the SDLP, but I am not so sure that a jobsearcher in the current climate would be better voting Sinn Féin over the SDLP. I’ve seen a lot of things in the Sinn Féin manifesto that I actually like but not one of them has either been implemented or even championed in the chamber.
I do feel if Sinn Féin continue to do this, ardent Sinn Féin supporting republicans would be checking to see how “green” the other side is.