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November December 2013

No Parking - a driver in East Africa had a notion to leave his car rather too close to his house - image courtesy of World Highways reader Francis Gicheru
January 21, 2014 Read time: 1 min
No Parking - a driver in East Africa had a notion to leave his car rather too close to his house - image courtesy of World Highways reader Francis Gicheru

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