If you love your car and plan to take it to Paris together – think twice and keep on reading – this might change your mind.
When I first saw that, it made me wonder: how do they do it? All the cars are so nicely and closely parked to each other. Distance between every one of them is no more then 10 centimeters and sometimes – there’s no distance at all! Look:
Nice, huh?
But as days passed, I began to realize that the idea of Parisian drivers being really cool was just an illusion. Common, do you think there’s some kind of crane waiting for every car driver so it could drag out the car nicely? I guess the “Golf” driver would really use one:
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Or these “Peugeot” drivers:
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You think the distances only looks relatively small? Now how relative is that:
Ain’t that love..
If you’re still not convinced, spend some time on google maps. Don’t know where to start? How about here, where I took most of the pictures.
OK, I’ll make it clear: there’s nothing wrong in scratching other cars here! You will not be punished or scolded. Actually you will only get the attention from tourists and city guests like us, but not from local people.
Pity I didn’t have a chance to make a video stream of parking in action yet (although I had a chance to watch few really smooth moves) but as soon as I will succeed, I’ll definitely share it with you. For now, please enjoy what some others guys were lucky to capture:
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Glad i dont have a car;] ; saves me from a lot of hassle ;D
Glad you’re not in Paris yet – saves you from hell a lot more hassle
Yet if you’re here without the car – not a problem, – you can always take a metro, RER, train, bus, tram, or even a cab which is not very expensive here.
sounds like a wicked public transportation system ;-] One day i’ll try it for myself, and maybe i’ll meet you there for some reckless hangout;) but for now, i guess, i’ll be trying Copenhagen , which i will visit probably some time next month. Got a new job at adform.net, they will send me there for training=]
Hey, congrats for a new job! BTW, public transportation in Cohenhagen ain’t that bad
thanx, mate;]
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