summer parking

As anyone with with a car and no assigned parking spot in Stockholm knows: Parking sucks. Well, most of the year.

Summer is actually a dream-come-true for finding a spot; there's always one somewhere. It's so easy these days that if I can't find a spot within a hundred meters of our front door I feel cheated.

There's an illegal spot across the street that never gets ticketed. It's not legal because it's not 10m in from the intersection. For some unknown reason the parking guards leave it alone. Unofficially, we've feel the cheat spot--as we call it, is as close to what we'll ever have as our reserved spot. At this point, a 450-700kr ticket would be cheap rent for all the times we've used it.

Before we end on the topic of ideal times to park, the absolutely most ideal time to find a parking spot on the streets of Stockholm is the evening of Midsommar's Eve. One year we came home to a nearly empty street.

One can only dream.