All the fun of the fare
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ahad that Prince Phillip in the back of my cab once," might well be the laconic boast of these three taxi drivers as they set off from Buckingham Palace on the world's longest fare—London to Capetown and back.
The journey is a charity run for the Metrocab Marathon, sponsored by Lombard Finance. The 25,000-mile round trip to South Africa is an attempt to break the Guinness record for the world's longest taxi journey and is expected to use 1,000 gallons of diesel in its trawl through 17 countries. The drivers, Mark, Jeremy and Carlos, aim to raise E100,000 for the Joint London Taxi Driver of the Year Society Charity by the time they return at the end of August. That's if they haven't worn each other out with endless cabbie-style monologues on politics, holidays, royalty, the meaning of life, the universe and everything. They might just survive turns out none of the three is a taxi driver full time.