Thursday, June 20th - last spring day. Tomorrow starts the Summer. Today I made my first trip to Vancouver down town. We had very nice lunch at Cafetica (http://dinehere.ca/vancouver/cafe-tica). Small busy soup&sandwich place. Today's special is very tasty scallop and potato cream soup and tuna sandwich.
But food is not topic of my post today. The main story of today is related to parking. Finding parking place seems to be a problem in Vancouver city center. We were driving around the bistro for couple of minutes. Finally we found legal parking place big enough and not too far away. The situation after lunch is the same. I just need to remove the word 'legal' from my prior statement. After the lunch is our car not where we left it. Stolen?!? No. Towed! The opinion of one of the Buster Service drivers was - this car is parked illegally.
Buster service towed our car to City of Vancouver parking place. The name of the towing company reminds me of the film 'Ghost Busters'. The job is the same - hunting 'innocent' victims. White trucks are driving through the city and searching for cars parked illegally. Vancouver is very sensitive about the way you park your car. In my opinion - most of the towed cars would be considered as 'parked well' in most of the countries I know, even in Germany.
Good news is, it is not difficult to find where your car is. It is parked just 'five minutes by taxi' away. The taxi driver, who brought us there, is very nice guy. He said, he drives a lot of people to the Citi of Vancouver parking lot. Especially after tree o'clock. Suddenly we do not feel so lonely anymore.
The towing business runs well everywhere around the world. Two other cars were brought in while we were paying the towing fee (90 $CAD, cheaper than in Prague?!?). The fine for bad parking (50-150 $CAD) has to be cleared with City of Vancouver office. We are done and leaving the parking lot in another five minutes.
Be careful where you park your car! ... and stay tuned-in!
But food is not topic of my post today. The main story of today is related to parking. Finding parking place seems to be a problem in Vancouver city center. We were driving around the bistro for couple of minutes. Finally we found legal parking place big enough and not too far away. The situation after lunch is the same. I just need to remove the word 'legal' from my prior statement. After the lunch is our car not where we left it. Stolen?!? No. Towed! The opinion of one of the Buster Service drivers was - this car is parked illegally.
Buster service towed our car to City of Vancouver parking place. The name of the towing company reminds me of the film 'Ghost Busters'. The job is the same - hunting 'innocent' victims. White trucks are driving through the city and searching for cars parked illegally. Vancouver is very sensitive about the way you park your car. In my opinion - most of the towed cars would be considered as 'parked well' in most of the countries I know, even in Germany.
Good news is, it is not difficult to find where your car is. It is parked just 'five minutes by taxi' away. The taxi driver, who brought us there, is very nice guy. He said, he drives a lot of people to the Citi of Vancouver parking lot. Especially after tree o'clock. Suddenly we do not feel so lonely anymore.
The towing business runs well everywhere around the world. Two other cars were brought in while we were paying the towing fee (90 $CAD, cheaper than in Prague?!?). The fine for bad parking (50-150 $CAD) has to be cleared with City of Vancouver office. We are done and leaving the parking lot in another five minutes.
Be careful where you park your car! ... and stay tuned-in!
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