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.

Category: Autrefois Tagged: CMMC, Coffee, Montrol-Senard, Rust, shop signs, Signs
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
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cahors, PPAC, shop signs, Signs
Posted on April 15, 2020
This elaborate wrought-iron shop sign in the town of Loches is quite distinctive.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge 14 April 2020
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Loches, shop signs, Signs, store sign, wrought iron
Posted on January 31, 2020
These signs are on a door at the ‘Route 66’ biker hotel in nearby Bussière-Poitevine

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Signs
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, motoring, Signs
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.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Textures
Category: Uncategorized Tagged: Cee's Fun Foto Challenge, Confolens, Notaire, Signs, Texture
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

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Signs
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, motorcycle, Signs
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.

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Signs
Category: Black & White Tagged: Black & White, Cahors, Cee's Black & White Photo Challenge, Humor, Humour, signpost, Signs
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.

Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Keys, p, Saint-Junien, shop signs, Signs, Smile, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
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.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Silence
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Oradour-sur-Glane, Signs, Silence, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge
Posted on December 7, 2017
This sign on a door in a waiting room of a French hospital is cheeky enough to tell it like it really is:

Weekly Photo Challenge: Cheeky
Category: Weekly Photo Challenge Tagged: Cheeky, Signs, Weekly Photo Challenge, weeklyphotochallenge