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Eurotour 2016 Revisited-Signage

Posted on July 1, 2016 by melvisx

Being a Geographer with a bend toward the human/cultural branch I am always alert when abroad for signs, advertising, and graffiti. This has developed a penchant in me to periodically disappear from my tour group, then reappear with few people noticing; I’ve only gotten lost once. The risk of me losing my group is a small price to pay for my forays from the flock.

I tend to look for how different cultures do the same things, just differently. For example…

Sounds like a bit of a sticky wicket.

I particularly liked the politeness in London:

Psychopath?

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Those were on the way to Buckingham Palace as was this one:

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In a post Brexit world I understand why this was only one of two indications there was going to be a vote, the other was to get out of the EU, so at the time I figured the odds were 50/50.

Good to know.

Waiting for the bus to Oxford….

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I speak the same language, but what’s a food tin?

Favorite Graffiti from London; apropos given Brexit vote and carnivalesque Presidential race…

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In Oxford you can buy…..

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I like that a dentist is above White Stuff even more! Oxford.041 Oxford.042

I’m a dog person.

Lastly, it wouldn’t have been a trip abroad without:

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Bubba Gumps? Really?

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Posted on August 6, 2012 by melvisx

One thing that surprised me about Spain, at least the places we visited, was the amount of graffiti; there was a lot. I’d venture to say there was even more than I’ve seen in Oakland or L.A. I appreciate graffiti as an art form but the amount I saw in Spain was borderline too much. On our walk to the old city center of Florence I came across something a little scary and Santaesque:So I stood next to it.

Wandering around Florence occasionally I’d see posters like this:

I know this isn’t ‘graffiti’ per se, but it is wall art and graffiti is often pained on walls…so…I guess this can be graffiti. Anyway, I thought, “Hmm, these are a little odd.”