{"id":1506,"date":"2012-12-29T13:00:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-29T13:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/londonerfromafar.wordpress.com\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2020-05-24T17:02:26","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T16:02:26","slug":"an-interview-with-a-london-cabbie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alondonerfromafar.co.uk\/an-interview-with-a-london-cabbie\/","title":{"rendered":"An Interview with a London Cabbie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave, of CabbieBlog, recently invited me to take part in his series<em> The London Grill,<\/em>\u00a0where <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"An Interview with a London Cabbie - London cab\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1160\/528637290_5db9151c2b.jpg\" alt=\"An Inteview with a London Cabbie - London cab\" width=\"130\" height=\"87\" \/>he challenges contributors to questions about their experiences in London.<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We challenge our contributor to reply to ten devilishly probing questions about their London and we don&#8217;t take &#8220;Sorry Gov&#8221; for an answer. Everyone sitting in the hot seat they will face the same questions ranging from their favourite way to spend a day out in the capital to their most hated building on London&#8217;s skyline to find out what Londoners really think about their city. The questions might be the same but the answers vary wildly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>London cabs are as iconic as red phone boxes or the Eros statue in Piccadilly Circus. As I mentioned in a previous entry, it seems that they are going to introduce a new type of cab to replace the old Hackney carriages.\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 24px;\">Take a look at what London life is like as seen from a London cab reading <a title=\"An Interview with a London Cabbie - blog\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cabbieblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dave&#8217;s blog.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read here <a title=\"An Interview with a London Cabbie - my interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotaxis.co.uk\/the-london-grill-montse-cano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my interview<\/a> in his Radio Taxi blog. Other interviewees include\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 24px;\"><a title=\"An Interview with a London Cabbie - mayor of London\" href=\"http:\/\/www.radiotaxis.co.uk\/the-london-grill-boris-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Mayor<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0Boris Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-724\" src=\"https:\/\/alondonerfromafar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/signature.png\" alt=\"A Londoner from Afar\" width=\"216\" height=\"46\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave, of CabbieBlog, recently invited me to take part in his series The London Grill,\u00a0where he challenges contributors to questions about their experiences in London.<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/alondonerfromafar.co.uk\/an-interview-with-a-london-cabbie\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[265,303,588],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>An Interview with a London Cabbie - A Londoner from Afar<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I was recently interviewed by The Cabbie Blog as part of his series The London Grill, about my experiences in London. 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