Taxi Tales from Paris by Nicky Gentil

Author:Nicky Gentil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-11-24T16:00:00+00:00

The Cabdrivers in Bordeaux

That week we were in Bordeaux on what was quite the weirdest holiday we had ever been on.

My husband had just undergone a major operation. Given his relatively young age, he had been advised to put his life in the hands of a world-renowned specialist – a surgeon based in Bordeaux who was pioneering a highly innovative way of performing this surgery and achieving spectacular results.

We had planned this to coincide with the children’s half-term holiday and, further to my husband’s discharge from the hospital, had decided to stay on for a few days in case of any unexpected complications. Talk about convalescing in style. There we were, cocooned in the swanky surroundings of a four-star luxury hotel in the South of France!

During that strange week, because our hotel was slightly out of town, we were dependent on the local cabdrivers whenever we needed to go anywhere; to the chemist, the medical laboratory, the hospital appointments − and, indeed, for the occasional, more agreeable activity such as visiting the city of Bordeaux or, later in the week when my husband was feeling much better, the spectacular Saint-Émilion region.

I cannot remember any specific conversations with the cabdrivers in Bordeaux because, frankly, most of that week remains, to this day, a complete blur in my mind. That said, of one thing I am quite certain: I shall never forget the amazing kindness of the cabdrivers we encountered whenever they discovered the reason why we were holidaying in their town.

I decided to mention them here simply by way of a thank you.

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