Last month, when my cousin returned for from London for a holiday, she was very frustrated because she could not find a parking space for her rented car. Well, there is no such service here as far as I know. She said that living in London for more than a decade now, she has gotten used to the convenience there.

My cousin owns a car in London, albeit a second hand one, due to the nature of her job which requires her to travel quite a bit. And she said that although parking space is hard to come by, she has never had problems looking for parking for rent.

I know that there is a website at http://www.parklet.co.uk that was founded by a team of people who know what they are looking for in parking spaces and garages after years of experiencing the difficulty of looking for a reasonably good parking space in the city of London!

With their experience, they have created a website so that other car owners need not go through the same problems like them. Just by accessing the website, a car owner would be able to search for a suitable parking space and then submit a rental application online. It’s all hassle-free!

You may think that Park Let only serves people in London but they also have a pretty comprehensive database of parking spaces and garages in other cities throughout the United Kingdom.

The holidays may be over for most parts of the world but for Chinese, we are anticipating a long 15 days of celebrations during the Chinese Lunar New Year in early February. Well, I can envision lots of parties, drinking and merry-making.

A friend of mine has already planned a BBQ party at his home. He is going to show off us his new home which has a sound-proof music room, a Jacuzzi and an open air bathroom. HHmmmm I can’t wait to see THAT!

And he is also going to show us his new natural gas grill. While the rest of us are still using charcoal fired grills at our BBQ parties, he is going to use his new natural gas grill. I can’t wait to see if the food will taste better than those that are prepared via the conventional charcoal-fired grill. What do you think?

One thing I know though, using natural gas grill, at least it’s way cleaner than BBQ-ing the old style where you can expect lots of sparks, dust, smoke and not forgetting, burnt parts!

If you have been to London, you would know what an expensive city London is. Even if you could afford a car, you would have a headache looking for a place to park it! Did you know that when a friend of mine went to London to study, he went to a store to work part time and the boss of the enterprise gave my friend a second hand BMW. GAVE!! The boss said that with a new car, he does not know where to keep the BMW anymore so he might as well benefit my friend. A gesture like that will NEVER happen here!

According to my friend, with his “new” car, he also did not know where to keep it but his landlord helped him to search for suitable garages in London, the most important issues would be the rental rate, terms and locality.

That happened years ago but now with a website like Parklet.co.uk, people in need of London garages could just search for it online without the hassle of going from place to place and knocking on doors to find out if there is a space available for the car.

Living in London, even if you are rich enough to own a fancy car, you must be prepared to fork out an additional £200 per month for a place to park it. At least, with Park Let, you can find that place easily!