These days a good alternative to the private car, particularly when it comes to the Airport run, is a Private Hire Taxi. The journey by Private Hire vehicle is with a fully licensed driver (in the UK these licences are issued by the local authority) in a fully licensed vehicle. Private Hire and H...

If you are travelling to Newmarket by bus or train you will very likely need a Newmarket taxi to get you from the station or drop off point to your accommodation. There is only one main rank in Newmarket which is on the High Street. If you arrive by train you might be lucky and catch a waiting cab at the sta...

Unlike southern California, it sometimes rains in London. Back in Queen Victoria’s day, an army captain came up with a novel solution to combat bad weather, and you can still see some of them today. The army captain in question was one Captain George Armstrong. In 1874, he had just retired from the arm...

Took a taxi ride today and learned a valuable lesson. Its amazing what people have to teach if we are just open enough to learn. I got in the cab and told the driver my destination and he started driving. Our enlightening conversation started with him commenting that he had just made an illegal u-turn in ord...

A lot of travellers make the mistake of hiring a taxi without planning ahead. There are a lot of car rental companies who are into taxi hire and they have different varieties of vehicles with them. You have to make sure that the vehicle you travel in can hold you and your party, and the price for a taxi from...