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those of you who have visited.

It's quite a small place. London's very busy.

It's got a real sense of excitement.

I mean, I love Perth. But London's got this sort of

sense of urban danger, which is very seductive.

You know, where I live, in the North, right,

for example, an ambulance seems to go past my house

with its sirens blaring like once every three minute.

That seems to be a statistically improbable number of

North Londoners requiring urgent medical attention.

At any given time, and

you can't help but feel excited because, odds are ...

You can't help but feel that one of these days,

one of these ambulances is gonna come for you.

And it's different over here.

Even the ambulan- I mean, the ambulances,

for example, every time they go past my house,

I notice they have, their writing's green, for one. That's weird.

And it says on the side, in big letters:

"EMERGENCY AMBULANCE".

Which is, like- Surely the adjective is

kind of implied by the noun.

But then, I figure it's just to distinguish them from our

ones over here.

They're just normal ambulances, you know?

They're a bit more laid-back.

They don't really emerge.

They just kinda ambulate.

Hang out in parks.

Like massively over-equipped Mr. Whippy vans.

Everything's more complicated: the taxis!

You know, in Australia, they just have taxis.

You just ring one, you get in and you go somewhere.

They've got different types of taxis.

The main one, of course, the famous black cab,

you know, the English cab.

And they're, you know, proper,

and they've got proper English cabbies.

And then they've got this whole other set of taxis

called mini-cabs.

You guys heard of mini-cabs?

Been to London a bit?

They just look like normal cars,

but they have a special sticker,

and the driver has a special license,

and he's allowed to act as a taxi.

Then there's this whole other group of public transport.

Vehicles that I hadn't heard about when I moved there.

And they're called "illegal mini-cabs".

And they're just dudes in cars.

And they're only cab drivers in the same sense that

my mate Pete is a pharmacist.

And as the name suggests, they are illegal!

They're a bit of a, this sort of scary thing in London.

I'd never heard of them,

but when I first got there, i was staying, um,

near, uh, Old Street Station,

which is on the northern- those Londoners, you know Old Street.

I was staying on New North Road, just near Old Street.

And I was walking down New North Rd, when I first got there

uh, towards Old Street,

and I came across a bus stop, with a bus stop advertisment.

You know, so it's six foot high, and it said:

"If you wanna know how much an illegal

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