Megawelle reported last week that 1,000 unused cars were found on the streets of Arrecife last year. They should have been scrapped but were probably dumped there instead.
Perhaps this car that I spotted in Puerto del Carmen last year suffered the same fate?
The mayor of Arrecife now wants to warn residents against this practise, saying that it is detrimental to the image of the town. I shall be interested to see on my next visit how successful he has been.
Whilst I may now be filling up with bio-ethanol, I am still interested in the price of normal (95 octane) petrol for my wife’s car. And having just written 3 blog entries about the prices of things going up, I went back through the log book to see if this was true of petrol as well.
We tend to see the price of petrol as something that goes up and down, although more up than down, especially in the summer months.
Actually, it started the year at 1,239EUR/litre and finished off at 1,369EUR/litre – no question about that being a price increase then.
But in-between it reached 1,419EUR/litre (or even more, but we didn’t fill up when it did!) in May, returning to 1,289EUR/litre in August. So even if there was an overall increase, it did go back and forth during the year.
How we long for the Summer of 2003 when we first bought the car, and paid as little as 1,034EUR/litre!
This sign really puzzles me:
Mondays to Fridays I can park for 2 hours between 8am and 6pm using a Parkscheibe, or if I am a local resident with Parkausweis Nr.5. But what happens after 6pm?
Can I park here as a non-resident then? Or is it residents only? Or unlimited time?
I asked some people local to the town where I saw the sign (and wanted to park), but no-one really seemed to be too sure. I have also heard that traffic warden have checked the cars after 6pm, so perhaps it really is just for residents? Anyone know for sure?
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