literally another aussie in london

streetcar desired

In London owning a car is not the easiest thing.

Perhaps people in London have adapted to not having backyards by letting their dogs sleep inside, but cars are not as easily kept in the spare room.

Finding parking near our place is enough of a reason to never get a car.

Then there is traffic and the congestion charge, to cars I say, thanks, but no thanks.

But London is a resourceful city, and here there is a service called streetcar. For a fee of under a hundred quid and at a rate of 6 quid an hour you can pick up a car on almost every street corner of inner London.

You can then drive this car to ikea, if you need a desk chair and can’t afford to go to a real place, then you can drive back home a few hours later with your cheap chair with little hassle or price.

That my friends, is genius.

Within a ten minute walk of our house there is like 6 cars we can hire, so if you need to get somewhere that is impossible to deal with via public transport, or you need to carry something, you just whip out the six quid an hour and off you go.

It is almost as good as the bike thing in paris, the Vélib’.

Except you can’t stop for quick burgers on the way home.

There was also a present in the last car i rented, it had a tiny soccer ball that some kid have left, which is now mine.

February 8, 2010 - Posted by Jrod | living in london | streetcar