Tag Archives: funny signs
Things you wouldn’t expect to find in Nepal
Before I start, a quick thing, the shortest of short stories: a billion years ago when I visited New Zealand I stayed as a Servas guest with a woman in her 70s in a remote part of the South Island. … Continue reading
Things you wouldn’t expect to find in France
”My tailor is rich”, huh? Is this the kind of sentence that French businessmen are hot to know in English? I can imagine them calling every school in the book and asking if they teach important phrases such as “Can … Continue reading
Watch me throw away $400
While waiting for my flight I heard the magic words in an announcement: “We are looking for volunteers to take a later flight as this flight has been oversold” or however they put it, as they no longer say the … Continue reading




