Piecar

TAXXIII!!

Posted by Piecar | 24th August 2009

A few days ago, I got into a cab here in Santiago for a quick, nine block dash to the Metro station. The ride would ostensibly take three minutes....

Twenty-five minutes later, the cabbie and I leapt out of our respective doors and stared over the cab roof at each other with angry looks on our faces. The trip did not go well......

Outside a bar in Prague, by Piecar

When I was a kid, the idea of taking a cab was tantamount to being a high roller. My Dad thought cabs were a huge waste of money and instilled that in me. I read an article about [[London]] cabbies and their extensive training and encyclopedic knowledge of their city. I just assumed that this was the case in EVERY city. Cabs were for the rich, or the intelligencia, or something...Something, whatever it was, that I was not.

When I was 13 I started collecting comics, and I started with Amazing Spiderman 192. In it, Peter Parker takes a

Continued | Travel Unravelled

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