Let's go parking (your car)!

Bucharest lacks parking places, a recklessly handled situation that brings, as consequence, that cars are in fact parked everywhere, in every corner and on every inch of the pathways, and we pedestrians are thrown to the roadway. Piaţa Victoriei, the heart of the city, is in fact a huge parking lot that is only cleared of cars when some kind of festival or screen event (the European Football Cup, for example) is organised in it. Bicycle pathways (full of holes in most sections anyway) are blocked by parked cars, and therefore useless.

But despite this chaotic parking, there's still parking problems, and in some spots you find quite orginal "privatized" parking places. You can use, for example, some kind of box to block "your" place in front of the shop you own, or the office you work at. Or you can write your car's plate number on the pavement.

And be careful, because if you ignore reserved parking places and you park anyway, you could have your car removed, using the "Bucharest way". They won't calling a car crane (has anyone seen a crane around here, by the way?), but they will warn you by raining the windscreen wipers. If you ignore that signal, or just didn't notice because didn't use your car in a couple of days, you'll find your tyres slashed.

Chaotic city... Sometimes it's not even clear why one car, like this red one at the photo, deserves slashing while others in the same situation, like are consider "well parked". Misteries of urban life.