Our third and final chapter from Spain:

Hey! This taxi doesn’t seem to be taking us to the address we asked for!  In fact, it seems like we’re on some sort of pre-set route with regular stops where other passengers get into and out of the taxi.

Street sign with with the word taxi under a bus icon

Our reader’s comments:

My Spanish is bad, but that I don’t think the Taxi is the word for the bus drawn in the photo.

Thanks again to that Chicago CMD reader who sent in these pics after her recent trip to Spain!

You too can submit photos of the quirky things you encounter to chickenmonkeydog [at] gmail [dot] com!

Posted 9 Dec 2009

Comments

7 Responses to “Hail That Taxi”

  1. forkboy1965 on December 9th, 2009 3:58 pm

    “Don’t mind him. He’s from Barcelona.”
    - Fawlty Towers

  2. Tim on December 9th, 2009 4:49 pm

    Why are the people running in the opposite direction from the bus? Are Spanish buses so terrible they send people fleeing in the other direction?

  3. forkboy1965 on December 9th, 2009 6:28 pm

    @ Tim And what are they carrying? Briefcases? Laptop cases? Are the taxis only for business people?

  4. Conall on December 9th, 2009 6:32 pm

    With a bus-sized taxi, do you think you still will be charged a per-person surcharge?

  5. Liam on December 9th, 2009 6:40 pm

    Although I’ve travelled to Spain, I didn’t ride in a taxi or a bus there.

    I feel like I can’t constructively contribute to this conversation, except to suggest to @forkboy1965 that the man (or boy) on the running sign may be carrying a ‘European carry-all’ rather than a work briefcase. Just a possibility …

  6. bridget on December 9th, 2009 7:03 pm

    As one who has not only been in Spain but has traveled by bus while there the buses do look like that and considering the way they drive I am not surprised people are running from the bus.

  7. forkboy1965 on December 9th, 2009 11:54 pm

    “European carry-all”? How European sounding…

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