De Gele Taxi

"Er was eens een taxi. Het was een mooie gele taxi met een rood lijntje. En van binnen was er een zachte leren bank en ook nog twee harde leren opklapbankjes."

Those are the opening lines from one of my favorite early childhood books: De Gele Taxi. The original English title is "The taxi that hurried".

I was probably three years old when the book was first read to me. The yellow taxi first exposed me to American traffic. I was most amazed by the stoplights dangling above busy intersections, and by the large fire hydrants on the sidewalks.

Now, forty years later, I decided to start a blog. I plan to use my mobile phone to report from where ever I may be. I will name the blog after that yellow taxi: thetaxithathurried.blogspot.com