One of the joys of travel is catching mistranslations or literal translations of different languages into English.
Amusing International Signs, Part I came from a trip to China. It’s free until next month when it goes behind the archive paywall for paid subscribers.
The signs below are from various visits to the US, Norway, Australia, Kenya, France, South Africa, Chile and Ireland.
These toilets putting the fun back in bathroom time:
Except for this one on a ferry boat in Chile:
These stores that need some branding help:
These restaurants that are maybe not featuring their food to its best advantage:
These traffic signs that give a tourist the lay of the land:
The following instructions on how to be a polite tourist:
And the Grand Prize Winner from a street corner in Ireland:
I don’t know what their excuse is because English is their first language.
There was a sign outside of a store on the long stretch of the Tamiami Trail in between Miami and Naples that read " BEER WORMS".