Here are photos of amusing signs spied on our recent trip to the United Kingdom and France. Enjoy!
A yellow triangle sign traditionally means danger. We just couldn’t decide what we were to watch out for. Lightning? Astonishing views?
A walk around London brought us past this row of townhouses with a humorous sign.
“Busking” is a British term for “street performing,” and this spot facing the Thames River obviously wasn’t interested in entertainment!
I loved the door colors, however.
The Borough Market is a large open air market featuring all sorts of foods. Beadles are lay people in synagogues of parish churches who keep order.
We visited on a Saturday morning with crowds of shoppers, none of whom looked religious.
We didn’t notice a church that might be overseeing the market, but we did see another sign that made us smile.
The exotic burgers sign also includes mention of ostrich meat. No surprise, ostrich
feathers were sold nearby!
We saw lots of exotic cheeses that tempted us and just enjoyed wandering around and looking at the English food.
A sign at the Underground seemed designed to console people who might flinch at reporting a crime.
“Mind the gap” warnings, of course, were everywhere in the Underground.
Minding the gap actually made me feel uneasy every time I stepped over the gap.
I have large feet, so it was never an issue.
A neon light warned against dangerous persons visiting the Hard Rock Café! Since I was traveling with a nuclear engineer, we did not stop in.
Paris had graffiti artists with religious concerns:
But it was there that we saw the friendliest one of all:
JaniceG says
Fun! Thanks for sharing a bit of travel for those who ate so much yesterday that they can’t make it out of the armchair to go anywhere except to the refrigerator for more leftovers. 🙂
Michelle says
LOL!
samuelehall says
How delightful, Michelle! I’ll try to locate a list of church notices which you’ll enjoy.