Cypriots and Cars

Cypriots are obsessed with cars. There are cars and motorbikes everywhere. The roads are full of them. The side of the streets are full of them. The side WALKS are full of them. A common saying around here: if Cypriots could drive into the supermarket and park their cars inside, they would.

This picture doesn't even do justice in describing how sidewalks are the preferred parking spots of Cypriots. This is one measly car. Often, the entire sidewalk is crammed with vehicles parked in a disarray of angles reflecting a geometry lesson gone wrong. I've had to walk into oncoming traffic because both the sidewalk (if there even is one) and the side of the street have sprouted so many parked cars that there is not even room for my foot-and-a-half-wide stance. And these drivers are CRAZY - walking into traffic is something I would much rather avoid here. But I'm still alive!