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May 2016

Some vehicles are too wide for allotted spaces, others are just badly parked – photograph courtesy of Tom Schwimmbeck
June 27, 2016 Read time: 1 min
Some vehicles are too wide for allotted spaces, others are just badly parked – photograph courtesy of Tom Schwimmbeck

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