Over the course of 8 months on the trail, I frequently ran into signs that made me laugh. Whenever possible, I snapped photos. So here, for your consideration, are a couple of the best. I’ve included explanations/context. Enjoy!
I found this anti-germ sign hanging on a bulletin board at a United Nations office in Tripoli, Lebanon.
This is an Israeli wall along the Israel-Lebanon border, pointing the ways to 2 enemy cities.
Misspellings never get old. But this photo is especially funny because I took it in the middle of nowhere on the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, where I doubt any foreigners (myself excluded) were walking through.
This sign represented Egyptian politics at their most baffling. I snapped this photo along the Suez Canal. The sign tells cars to turn right for the Qantara Bridge, Sinai, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq. Excluded from the list is Israel, the nearest foreign country down that same road. Iraq, by contrast, is many hundreds of miles and several countries away. And remember, Egypt and Israel are close allies!
See the top right heading on this Thai menu in Cairo.
Perhaps my favorite: the advertisement outside a Yemeni restaurant in Agami, an Egyptian town on the Mediterranean. A big horn sheep knee-deep in a silver chalice of rice has always been high on my list of food fantasies.
Camel crossing in the Sahara!
A donkey taxi driver takes a creative approach to naming his cart in Siwa Oasis, Egypt.
A stern warning from the Sisters at the Mar Thecla Monastery in Syria.
I had missed this post (crap) but it just made my morning! Funny stuff.