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in Laughter· Traveler's Tales

Traveler’s Tales: Amusing Signs in Europe

A pictorial essay on amusing signs seen in London, no busking, danger, silly signs, traveler's tales, amusing signs in Europe

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.

A pictorial essay on amusing signs seen in London, no busking, danger, silly signs, traveler's tales, amusing signs in Europe

A pictorial essay on amusing signs seen in London, no busking, danger, silly signs, traveler's tales, amusing signs in Europe 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 A pictorial essay on amusing signs seen in London, no busking, danger, silly signs, traveler's tales, amusing signs in Europeanother 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.

Amusing signs in europe

 

“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 pictorial essay on amusing signs seen in London, no busking, danger, silly signs, traveler's tales, amusing signs in Europe

Hard Rock Cafe in London. We hadn’t brought any, though we had a nuclear engineer with us.

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:

A pictorial essay on amusing signs seen in London, no busking, danger, silly signs, traveler's tales, amusing signs in Europe

This one felt sad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But it was there that we saw the friendliest one of all:

A pictorial essay on amusing signs seen in London, no busking, danger, silly signs, traveler's tales, amusing signs in Europe

 

 

 

 

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Comments

  1. JaniceG says

    November 29, 2013 at 2:24 PM

    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. 🙂

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  2. Michelle says

    November 29, 2013 at 2:34 PM

    LOL!

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  3. samuelehall says

    November 30, 2013 at 5:20 PM

    How delightful, Michelle! I’ll try to locate a list of church notices which you’ll enjoy.

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