This is not possible

Unbelievable: Just after all the rain we had 3 days later we now have "calima" over the islands. Why didn't this calima came before the rain?? Hope it doesn't stay too long :)

Don't know what this calima is? Take a look at the picture below ;)

Rain Rain and more Rain

Over the last 3 days we had loads of rain here in Gran Canaria. The good part is that know we have a green island and some "rivers" coming down from the mountains :)
The bad part is that we are not ready to handle all that water witch makes our streets, houses and others "sink".

Anfi open again

Ok, after over a month of negotiations we are back picking up at Anfi. The big guys finally agreed and signed a contract that will hopefully be good for both of us: Anfi Customers and Taxi Drivers.
Today at about 5 pm we got the notice from the Taxi Central that we where allowed to work in Anfi again.
This happened just a day before the Taxis in Mogan where about to shut down the service again for another two days.... good ;)

Two days, no Taxis

Taxis in Mogan are striking. First of all we are striking because Anfi is cutting down our prices and keeping the money as a commission. Also we are striking because of the raising numbers of pirate taxis that are stealing our work doing transfers without a licence and with their private cars and getting money from their "costumers" for it.

The strike will be Friday the 27th and Saturday the 28th of November 2009 and the taxis will stop working both days from 10 am to 8 pm.

Trouble with Anfi

You know the Anfi resort in Puerto Rico?
Well, if you've ever been to Puerto Rico you probably know it.
The Taxi central in Mogan it's been working with Anfi for a long time know and we've been accepting their way of working with us till now.

We are driving many Anfi customers and "maybe" customers with so called "Taxi Slips". We drive, the customer gives us the "Taxi Slip" and then we go back to Anfi to get our money on the fly. We have arranged a deal and in most cases we receive less money than the trip is worth but we agreed to do so.

So what's the problem know?
Now Anfi says they want to pay us in three month (!) What is that? Yes, we drive a customer to Puerto Rico for 5€ (Taxi Slip) and we'll get those 5€ three month later. I don't know what those people are thinking but we do not agree with this as we still have to pay for insurance, fuel, repairs and other stuff and we surely cannot pay them with Taxi Slips but with real cash.
As Anfi doesn't seem to care about that the only way to make them clear we disagree is to block Anfi from receiving our service. This includes the whole Anfi resort in Puerto Rico (Anfi Beach Club, Monte Anfi, Puerto Anfi and Grand Anfi) and in Tauro (Anfi Emerald Club and the Anfi Golf Courses). We will continue to bring customers to the those locations but there won't be any pickups. The blocking started at Monday the 2nd of November and it is not defined when it will be finished. Let's hope that both parts come to a solution soon.

Follow that taxi

"Follow that taxi!"

You hear this expression in many movies but I have to say I hear that very often as well here in Puerto Rico :)

The difference is that in the movies someone say this to the driver because he is following someone and want to know where this person is going and in Puerto Rico they say it because it's a family or friends driving in separated taxis and they are going to the same place.
People always laugh when they use that expression and it's always funny to hear it.

My hands hurt

Keeping our taxis clean is very important in the south of Gran Canaria. When you take a taxi here you'll always see that the cars are very clean both out and inside. You'll always see taxi drivers cleaning their cars at slow taxi ranks. Normally all cars have two shifts so the one working the day shift cleans the outside of the car while the one on the night shift cleans the inside.
Well... these days it's very hard to clean the car because of the cold. My hands are aching because of the cold water even though I'm only cleaning the inside of our car.... wow! I hope this cold goes away soon!
Many customers ask me about the weather forecast; weather reports say that it's still going to be cold... unfortunately.