Alf Townsend has over forty years' experience as a London cabbie and in that time has made countless trips to and from London's busiest airport, picking up fares from all over the world, the rich and famous - and the infamous - as well as the downright unusual. Collected here, and interwoven with the history of the development of the now-massive Heathrow, are a wonderful selection of Alf's stories, which are sure to appeal to a wide readership.