Met at LHR-T5

Fortunately, our SFO-LHR British Airways flight didn't divert to Amsterdam at the last minute due to wicked cross currents near Heathrow, as our steward feared. So, we met our hired greentomatocars (yes, it's all lowercase and run together) driver on schedule at Terminal 5 Arrivals. Friendly, efficient service (they prefer Priuses) and finally a cabbie who didn't feel it necessary to drive through perpetually clogged Piccadilly Circus en route to our apartment suite in Bloomsbury. "Black cabs feel they need to do that for tourists," he noted.