Whenever I take a taxi home from the city center to Etiler, I pass along the otobahn through an Alphaville landscape of Trump Towers, kiddy-neon malls and Carrefour Express supermarkets.

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From there I had to take a taxi.

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While it is easy to get to Pakret by bus or taxi from Bangkok, it is much more interesting to take a green flag express boat.

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To reach Kat O, up near the border of the Chinese mainland, you need to take a taxi to the pier at Wong Shek, about an hour's journey from Hong Kong.

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You cannot deduct the costs of getting to and from work, no matter if you take a bus, trolley, subway, taxi, or drive your own car.

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As there are no organised tours to Haiti from the Dominican Republic, and very few taxi drivers willing to take the risk, finding a well-disposed man-with-a-van in Santo Domingo was like pulling teeth.

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