Crazy Taxi.

We've just arrived in Shanghai and we embark on the usual nightmare journey from airport to hotel.
So far everything is ok, we have found a bus that takes us to the Shanghai Railway Station where we can get on a metro train to a stop near our hotel.
....One and a half hours later we get into a cab (believing as usual that the cab driver knows where he is going).
As it happened he didn't, neither could he speak English, nor read our address we had printed, nor understand the address when we told him. After quite a lot of driving we still were non the wiser. We stopped at the nearby university and got out (hopeless cabbie, if he didn't know where he was going, why did he accept our fare?)
Anyways, by chance there was this random student there who could speak a little English. He not only translated for us but also got into the cab and took us to our hotel. What a life saving young chap! Scary though, we would never have got home otherwise.