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Shop sign, Loches
Posted on April 15, 2020
This elaborate wrought-iron shop sign in the town of Loches is quite distinctive.
Motoring Signs
Posted on January 31, 2020
These signs are on a door at the ‘Route 66’ biker hotel in nearby Bussière-Poitevine
Outside the Notaire’s
Posted on October 23, 2019
These brass plaques can be seen outside the offices of Notaires (public notaries) all over France. However, they’re not all as aesthetically framed against a rough-cast wall as this one, in Confolens.
Beware of low-flying motorbikes
Posted on September 6, 2019
There’s a bikers’ hotel in the nearby village of Bussière-Poitevine. With this sign hanging from the wall, it’s hard to miss
This way to the dumpster
Posted on July 20, 2018
This hand-made – and most definitely unofficial – signpost in the city of Cahors, in southern France, points the way to a number of exotic locations. And Brussels.
However, the most practical pointer is probably the one which shows the way to the nearest benne à ordures: the garbage dumpster.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Smile
Posted on April 4, 2018
Should you ever find yourself in the town of Saint-Junien and need to have a new key cut, this is the place you’re looking for.
Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence
Posted on January 18, 2018
This weathered sign can be found in the nearby open-air memorial of Oradour-sur Glane, a village where over 600 inhabitants – mostly women and children – were massacred by German troops in June 1944.
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