Albatz Travel Adventures

Morning, Friday, May 22nd, 2025.

For the 1st half of our first full day in Paris, we wandered around its oldest arrondisements 1 and 2. This included two famous turn-of-the-century shopping arcades, a couple of art galleries and the streets which are so wonderful all by themselves.

After a

Thursday, May 21st, 2025.

After booking into our tiny Paris apartment (*which took an endless amount of time to find) Al announced, “It’s time for a beer!” We set off immediately and sat down at the first café we found.

Any small amount of French we may have had in the past deserted us. Al meant to order a ‘blond’, but blurted out  ‘blanche...

One thing I noticed on my last trip to England was the tendency to tell a story via signs and posters.

This one is on the walkway along the Thames in Greenwich. It’s a tad grungy and tricky to read so here it is, ‘The Gatherer then led Stan to a well where he drew up to a bucket the stickiest, blackest, smelliest gloop Stan had ever see.

If red is the command ‘Stop’ and yellow is ‘Warning’, then orange is a combination of the two, quite literally if you’re mixing paint colours, but it also says, “Look at me!’

Even a single spot of bright orange will grab your attention (a single orange as an offering at the

Some fun informational signs from around the world. And, as this is for Dan’s Challenge, I’m starting with a couple he directly inspired.

Dan posted a pedestrian detour sign, saying that he’d never seen one before. In Vancouver there are masses of both minor and major construction projects (four within eight blocks of where I live) and I am constantly encountering ...