After little sleep in an expensive hotel due to a fire alarm, I travelled out of town to relax before my long flight back from UK to Australia. Of course, this meant I didn't have any accommodation set up in advance. But the lovely Albanian taxi driver who met me at Canterbury West station rang some hotels while driving me to others to find a suitable room during Freshers Week (who from Australia knows what that is?) with most places fully booked. I really needed two nights in the one spot so I wouldn't have to drag myself out of bed by someone else's timetable. With plenty of drunk students roaming the midnight streets, it really was wonderful to have such a taxi driver turn around the image of being taken advantage of when vulnerable in an unknown city.
Many thanks (& I know other customers have been very happy too because of the calls coming in while I was in his car and he had other drivers look after them for him).
Only sorry I didn't ask his name to thank him here personally. read more
