Brendan Sainsbury’s Posts

• Big Mellow Taxi

  Meet the world's first hybrid-cab driver 2

  Posted 4 years, 3 months ago

  Like any self-respecting cabbie, Andrew Grant has a talent for small talk. But when the conversation turns to his prized 2004 Toyota Prius, things get a bit more animated.

  

  Andrew Grant.

  "Gave Cameron Diaz a lift once," he says matter-of-factly, leading me toward the Vancouver curb where the curvaceous car is parked.

  "Oh, yeah? What did she say?"

  "She said, 'This is nothing, I've got two.'"

  "What -- two hybrids?"

  He pauses just long enough to keep things respectable: "Yeah."

  Fame, as Andy Warhol once so eloquently opined, is a universal phenomenon, and Grant… Read More

• Not a Car in the World

  Can a Brit survive in North America without a driver's license? 5

  Posted 4 years, 5 months ago

  In the rich mosaic of North American society, I stand rather forlornly on my own as a member of an oft-forgotten minority group: I am an adult male who can't drive.

  

  I have a wheelie bad feeling about this.

  Photo: Andrew White.

  Catapulted into the overcrowded car culture of Vancouver, British Columbia, from the U.K. last January, I quickly found myself labeled as a maverick and an outcast. People looked at me as if I were mad, misinformed, incapable, or just plain wacky. They told me that the honeymoon couldn't last… Read More

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