Latest Blog Posts for CabbieBlog

• World’s most expensive teabag
  on Oct 10, 2014 in Slugs, snails & puppydog tails London's shops
  Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie . . . and other trivial facts about a Knightsbridge store that’s not in Knightsbridge but Brompton Road. Harrods opens its doors to 100,000 sh...
• The Non-Mad Way to Run a Car in London
  on Oct 7, 2014 in Driven mad in London London's roads
  Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Driving in London is hard work – I should know. In this Guest Post Daniel Solomou promotes the use of the Toyota Aygo and has some sage advice...
• Penguin Pool Regents Park
  on Oct 2, 2014 in Urban landscape London zoo
  Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Every month CabbieBlog hopes to show you a little gem of a building which you might have passed without noticing. The Penguin Pool is now a shad...
• The Thin Blue Line
  on Sep 30, 2014 in Slugs, snails & puppydog tails Wagging tails London's police
  Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Exactly 185 years ago on 30th September 1829 at 6pm the first Metropolitan Police Constables marched out onto the streets of London. Paid 21/- [...
• Seeing Red
  on Sep 26, 2014 in Thinking allowed London cabs
  Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie For some time London’s cabbies have felt that TfL has not had their best interests at heart. Rickshaws, unlicensed minicabs, Uber, all illegal...
• Bees, boots and baked beans
  on Sep 23, 2014 in Slugs, snails & puppydog tails London shops
  Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie It is one of London’s most iconic stores and its origins happened upon a chance meeting of two men – a shop keeper and a footman to Queen’...
• The London Grill: Flora Tonking
  on Sep 19, 2014 in The Grill
  Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie We challenge our contributor to reply to ten devilishly probing questions about their London and we don’t take “Sorry Gov” for an answer.
• The two Queens of Fleet Street
  on Sep 16, 2014 in Thinking allowed London statues
  Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie This week Scotland goes to the polls in the most decisive vote in our nation’s history. At stake is nothing less than the breakup of the Union...
• An office in Vauxhall
  on Sep 12, 2014 in An artistic bent London's films
  Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie It is London’s the worst kept secret, the MI6 building in Vauxhall, everybody knows that James Bond the epitome of a suave and sophisticated E...
• Black face of St. George
  on Sep 9, 2014 in Urban landscape London curiosities
  Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Weekly opinion and miscellany from a London cabbie Quite why a church has remained on this site since 1122 I do not know. It just shows the tenacity of the area’s residents that St. George...

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