Drivers in Travel
I was always lucky to get intresting drivers in several of my travels .
The Estonian driver in Stockholm who took me to Viking Radisson from Arlanda airport in 2008 , who talked of Swedens high taxes but how the country took care of its citizens .
Amongst the many cab drivers I had met Hussain was one of them in Mallaca in Malaysia in 2014.
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Cab drivers are the best source of information about a place many of them are naturally talkative and for a person like me a pleasant pastime ,
Hussain took me from Malacca bus station to heritage area and dropped me by then I knew all his family and mostly facts about Malacca ,
The taxi driver who drove me a longer distance in Kuala lumpur when I went to TBS bus stand in outskirts had more time and was also intellectually more attuned ,he delved into philosophical explanations of life in general and later an in-depth analysis of Malaysian life style for an Indian Tamil origin Malaysian born driver he was cerebral ,was so absorbed in his speech I forgot to take his snap for posterity Hussain gave me no such intellectual constraints 😁
Of course Balis Dewa is still a good friend rather than a driver
He cud sing bhajans with style or cud take u to a strip bar
I would list him as the most cheerful all rounder in Bali
The drivers in UAE mostly Pakistani ones are talkative and reliable
Adhil in my early days took me and family on our first visit to the Burj Arab by his contacts and into the palace in Zabeel itself as he had his contacts .
So many airport trips to Dubai or Abudhabi from Al ain for meetings in limousines sent by business class sponsored tkts travelling in style in midnights at times with premila too
The sardar driver in Sharjah
And the malayalee driver who took me for an iftar in a tiny hotel when he broke his fast before he took me to Sharjah airport
Or Sulaiman my moplah song specialist guru of my driving licence
We did meet one intresting Pakistani driver Khan in Labuan malaysia
I once travelled in a cab driven by a dark Rajini look alike with long hair and he had Rajni mannerisms which iam sure was his mebbe Rajni took from him
The kathmandu Ram was another gem
Quiet cheerful helpful loyal punctual had lots to learn from him though on first look he sounded like a dumb guy and a con man
What poor judging by me
Ram was an eipitome of peace not at all agitated at the chaos in kathmandu roads but drove with equanamity .
The nameless memory of a driver we got from kolkata ...Howrahs dangerous streets who turned out not only honest but caring driver.
He was with us all day
The young man who drove us to Nathulla pass in his maruthi van in Gangtok showing us sights which would be forever etched in our minds .
The nepalese drivers on our Kailas trip driving us through dangerius curves filled with landslides or the Chinese drivers on other side one of whom had a peculiar ability to drive into muddy ditvhes so much so we called him kuzhiyan or pit man in malayalam
How can i not include Dharmasiri fernando who was around my age who drove us around in our 3 days in Sri Lanka taking us to the heights of nuwara eliya or the lovely tooth temple in kandy or the crowded markets of colombo
Dharmasiri was a family man we got to know his son a customs officer who greeted us in the airport and about his capable daughter settled in Doha .
I was always lucky to get intresting drivers in several of my travels .
The Estonian driver in Stockholm who took me to Viking Radisson from Arlanda airport in 2008 , who talked of Swedens high taxes but how the country took care of its citizens .
Amongst the many cab drivers I had met Hussain was one of them in Mallaca in Malaysia in 2014.
.
Cab drivers are the best source of information about a place many of them are naturally talkative and for a person like me a pleasant pastime ,
Hussain took me from Malacca bus station to heritage area and dropped me by then I knew all his family and mostly facts about Malacca ,
The taxi driver who drove me a longer distance in Kuala lumpur when I went to TBS bus stand in outskirts had more time and was also intellectually more attuned ,he delved into philosophical explanations of life in general and later an in-depth analysis of Malaysian life style for an Indian Tamil origin Malaysian born driver he was cerebral ,was so absorbed in his speech I forgot to take his snap for posterity Hussain gave me no such intellectual constraints 😁
Of course Balis Dewa is still a good friend rather than a driver
He cud sing bhajans with style or cud take u to a strip bar
I would list him as the most cheerful all rounder in Bali
The drivers in UAE mostly Pakistani ones are talkative and reliable
Adhil in my early days took me and family on our first visit to the Burj Arab by his contacts and into the palace in Zabeel itself as he had his contacts .
So many airport trips to Dubai or Abudhabi from Al ain for meetings in limousines sent by business class sponsored tkts travelling in style in midnights at times with premila too
The sardar driver in Sharjah
And the malayalee driver who took me for an iftar in a tiny hotel when he broke his fast before he took me to Sharjah airport
Or Sulaiman my moplah song specialist guru of my driving licence
We did meet one intresting Pakistani driver Khan in Labuan malaysia
I once travelled in a cab driven by a dark Rajini look alike with long hair and he had Rajni mannerisms which iam sure was his mebbe Rajni took from him
The kathmandu Ram was another gem
Quiet cheerful helpful loyal punctual had lots to learn from him though on first look he sounded like a dumb guy and a con man
What poor judging by me
Ram was an eipitome of peace not at all agitated at the chaos in kathmandu roads but drove with equanamity .
The nameless memory of a driver we got from kolkata ...Howrahs dangerous streets who turned out not only honest but caring driver.
He was with us all day
The young man who drove us to Nathulla pass in his maruthi van in Gangtok showing us sights which would be forever etched in our minds .
The nepalese drivers on our Kailas trip driving us through dangerius curves filled with landslides or the Chinese drivers on other side one of whom had a peculiar ability to drive into muddy ditvhes so much so we called him kuzhiyan or pit man in malayalam
How can i not include Dharmasiri fernando who was around my age who drove us around in our 3 days in Sri Lanka taking us to the heights of nuwara eliya or the lovely tooth temple in kandy or the crowded markets of colombo
Dharmasiri was a family man we got to know his son a customs officer who greeted us in the airport and about his capable daughter settled in Doha .
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