Travel blogs by Travellerspoint

Sep 2007

Understanding Chinese Signs

11.09.2007 -17 °C

On a similar note to Peter's collection of humorous signs, folks over at Peter Greenberg.com have assembled a dozen photos of confusing signs in China. While most of the signs feature an English translation, all are quite bewildering for English-speaking tourists - which is why Greenberg & co. have jumped in with their professional English translations.

Meanwhile, here's one where the Chinese sign-writers made the meaning pretty clear:

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Photo taken by Ivory

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Posted by dr.pepper 00:55 Archived in China Comments (0)

Photo of the Week: Worcestershire sauce

06.09.2007

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If this is anything to go by, Worcestershire sauce has really taken off in El Salvador.

Darell took this photo on a trip through Central America. Check out his two blogs for more of his photos throughout Central America and South America.

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Posted by dr.pepper 21:42 Archived in El Salvador Tagged photography Comments (0)

The 10 Best Places You Haven't Heard Of (until now)

04.09.2007

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Wroclaw, Poland. Taken by Monica28.

BudgetTravel.com has just put out a list of the "10 Best Places You've never Heard Of".

It's silly, really. You go to all that trouble to find a handful of cool, little known places, - and then you post it in your magazine for everyone to find out.

But then, this whole "off the beaten track" phenomena is fraught with contradictions.

That said, I have to hand it to BudgetTravel for coming up with 10 places that I, to be entirely honest, had never heard of:

Have you heard of any of these? Or even visited them?

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