Some street signs can reveal much about the culture, or at the very least, about the wildlife! Other signs, posters, menus, plaques, etc. reveal much more about what Australians revere and their sense of humor!
Street signs you’ll never see in the United States:
Apparently, this wallaby hadn’t read the sign:
In Melbourne:
In Melbourne, a street named for one of the early settlers, Mr. Batman, pronounced Batmin and not to be confused with our caped crusader. Sadly, they chose to name the city after Lord Melbourne rather than Batman. Would the city have been called Batmania?
Different bathroom signs. You know you’re in a different part of the world:
Other fun signs:
On the street in Adelaide:
From an orator speaking in the park in Sydney:
In front of a bar in Hobart:
In an old school house on Kangaroo Island:
Local food offered at a restaurant in Cairns:
In the Rocks neighborhood of Sydney:
In Melbourne, a nod to Leonard Cohen’s great poetry after his death.
Laneway street art in Melbourne:
Parking spaces for the multi-millionaire (billionaire?) owner of the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, MONA.
Never:
Memorializing writers around Sydney’s Central Quay:
In Melbourne:
The Aussie appreciation for Barack and Michelle in a shop window:
Tasmanian water from the clouds that mass over Patagonia:
And the more things are different, the more they stay the same. Hello Costco:
And if all becomes naught in my life, I can always go back to Melbourne and get a job:
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