# Signs Seen on Travels

Signs seen on travels:

DR. CONDOM

– Outside office building (a surgery?) in Barcelona.

DRAGON\
Inspiring, indomitable, brilliant, courageous and magnanimous, frank,
direct, enthusiastic and ambitious. Has the idealism and vitality to
accomplish great things.

– Mounted on a fence ringing a large fountain at the Suntec City
Complex, Singapore. (One of twelve such plaques–I am a dragon.)

PLEASE\
DO NOT EXIT\
THROUGH THIS WINDOW

Penalty: 10 000 Kc Fine

– On a window (that opens on to the sixth-floor roof) of a hostel in
Prague. (10 000 Kc is about US\$250.)

PLEASE KEEP OFF THE GRASS.\
NE MARCHEZ PAS SUR LES PELOUSES S.V.P.\
BITTE NICHT AUF DEN RASEN TRETEN.\
PER FAVORE NON CALPESTARE IL PRATO.

– One of many such signs on the edge of a lawn, King’s College,
Cambridge. (Chinese, Japanese versions omitted.)

PLEASE KEEP OFF THE\
GRASS UNLESS\
ACCOMPANIED BY A SENIOR\
MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE

– To the immediate left of the one above.

NOTICE: Mediums are forbidden to fall into a trance in the Snake Temple
or its precinct to avoid causing inconvenience to worshippers and
visitors.\
By order of the Board.

– Affixed to a wall of the Snake Temple, Penang, Malaysia. [I didn’t.]

[Er, expect actual original thought after I finish my thesis.]