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A Photo A Week Challenge: Funny Signs
Posted on December 17, 2021
This street sign in the old quarter of Beverley, opposite the Minster Church, looks like an effective default way of keeping the traffic moving.
Sound Advice
Posted on October 21, 2021
I spotted this weatherbeaten sign down at the harbour in the small fishing village of Crail, in Scotland.
Personally, I wouldn’t need to be told once, never mind twice.
Look At The Baby…
Posted on September 4, 2021
In one of the narrow, winding streets around the great cathedral of Chartres, I spotted this slightly disconcerting sign featuring a baby. The presence of the passing pedestrian helped to make the shot.
Fancy A Coffee?
Posted on July 15, 2021
This weathered sign, in the open air museum of Montrol-Sénard, is outside a century-old equivalent of a modern-day coffee shop.
Against Bric-a-Brac?
Posted on July 10, 2021
At first glance, this ancient and well-weathered sign in the city of Cahors appears to read ‘anti-brocante’, but in fact it’s just old and bent (don’t say it) and actually reads ‘Brocante Brocante”.
So good they named it twice, presumably.
For non-francophones, a brocante is essentially a bric-à-brac shop. You know: the sort of place whose owners buy junk and sell antiques.
Posted for the Photographing Public Art Challenge, hosted this week by Cee
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.
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