Tag: signs

Wine sweet wine

Haus der Weine

The house of wines (and spirits)

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The vineyard “Wild Cat” in Rüdesheim2005 signs b

A pinot noir is ripening on the vines

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The logo of a town called Weinheim – Home of the Wine

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: All Sorts of Signs. More signs?  Click here.

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Say it with signs

Car number plates are signs and in Germany they (sometimes) make words.  I’ve been collecting them and here are all words I found on cars from F for Frankfurt.

I want to stay

FIT

now with the

FLU

season approaching.  I think I can

FIX

this by dressing warmly.

I hope I won’t look too

FAT

wearing my fake

FUR Yeti

This should go

FAR

to letting me feel and look

FAB Fabulous

For A Photo a Week: Signs.  Check out more signs here.

Signs

Feuersozietät

The sign of a fire insurance on a house in Brandenburg.  It was founded 1718.

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I saw this sign in Frankfurt.  I thought it was a foreign alphabet but couldn’t find a match.  Then I got up I looked at the picture skew and realised it’s a word: T U M U L T (the same word exists in German), probably the name of a bar.

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I think this alludes to a German saying: The place to which even a king has to go to on foot.

Linked to Cee’s Black and White Photo Challenge: Signs.

These rules rule!

We are often faced with rules – usually negative ones, forbidding something.  Many non-German speakers know one German expression: Verboten! (Forbidden!). It doesn’t matter that they are  often for our own good, like this one:

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saying: Cross the road, it’s dangerous on this side!  They still prohibit something.

Children are more often faced with explicit rules.  This rule, though, is my all time favourite:

Spielen erwünscht

Playing welcome! Children and adults are allowed to laugh and romp around.   

In Munich I came across this sign:

nur mit Kindern

Playground for under 16s – Entry for adults only allowed if accompanied by children.  

Therefore there is one rule I try to follow (not always but often):

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Doggies in the window (and outside)

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A post about dogs.

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And signs.  This is from Germany.  There is a path for walkers and bicycles.  Skaters are allowed. Dogs have to be on a leash in the entire area.

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This notice is educational:  As this was mounted at a pasture, there is an explanation that cows, cattle (is there a difference?), horses, sheep, and similar animals can become very ill due to dog excrements.

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No dog toilet here.  The yellow sign concerns general rubbish dumping.  It is stated that reasonable people will not dump rubbish here.  Unreasonable people are not allowed to do so.

No fouling

This sign is from near Bamburgh Castle in the UK.  A fine and the proper law is quoted to quell any discussions.

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Either the sign is older or Sunderland (less than 100 km to the South) is cheaper concerning fines.

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In Hockley Heath near Birmingham they show people what to do.

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And it is even more accommodating if bags are provided.

This is for Cee’s Oddball Challenge.

 

Two of a kind?

Reading names of towns with a foreign language in mind can be quite fun.  I am NOT going to show you the town sign of the famous town in Austria beginning with F (only because I’ve never been there).  But I hear that to get there you have to go to Kissing and Petting in Germany first before your cross the border and arrive in F.

My town signs are not quite as rude.  But I’ve always wondered whether this town in Brandenburg, Germany:

should be twinned with this one in the Alsace region of France:

This is for A Photo a Week Challenge. Nancy was asking for signs.