Easy parking

Usually I intentionally park a few blocks away from the train station -- just for the extra walk.  But it's also because by the time I drop the kids off at school, the early risers have taken all the parking spaces at the train station parking lot.

In Australia -- unlike in the U.S. or Canada -- December is also summer... and therefore school vacation.  This means that it's the main time for families to take a vacation together:  Christmas and New Years around this time; the weather is warm; and the kids are out of school.  Construction basically shuts down during December -- and the offices are half empty during December and the first few weeks of January.

So:  this is what the train station parking lot -- usually full by this time -- looks like on January 2nd, at 8:54am on a weekday.


--GG