Tuesday morning I arrived in Sheffield, UK, where I will be living for the next year. As soon as I got settled I took the opportunity to walk around town and see the sights. One of the first things I noticed was that, apparently, no one cares if you park on the wrong side of the street!
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| This is a two-way street. |
I think the speed bumps are fairly common here as well. Then, as you walk along the sidewalk, you see these delightful little postboxes.
As well as these phone booths. It's refreshing to see a phone booth that does not have the phone ripped out of the wall. This one takes coins and cards!
I love seeing advertising in the wrong context. Here, for example, if you have a mobile that can snap a picture of a QR code, you're probably not looking for a phone booth.
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| (I can't wait to find out more about ice cream) |
Another thing I noticed was how the streets were labeled. In Japan they are not really labeled, and in America they are labeled with signposts on the corner. But in Britain, they are labeled either with a proper free-standing sign, like this:
Or with a sign pasted onto the side of a building, like this:
There is no way that any property owner in America would let the city post a permanent street sign on the side of their building.
_DZ
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