Gender Recreation

 A lighter touch

Ancient Pompeii, another sign showing you the way to what you think you want. No linguistic barrier.

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Pompeii, Italy; street sign, a house of joy. Or a C Street House?

Don't blame me.  Dan took the picture. I just took the picture of Dan taking the picture of the picture somebody created centuries ago, in better times.

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Then you follow the pavement signs, and the beds are stone in there, with stone pillow raised areas - had to have cushions back in the day. And depressions where lots of feet swung off and swung up and came and went. Very short beds. Teeny windows.  Good thing.  Or an ancient C Street House where all is safe because you are with friends accountable to noone outside, and all justifying each other inside, and not telling. Not a good thing.

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 A house of joy, perhaps appetizers only, Switzerland, hard to know, near Liechtenstein

Switzerland's.  You find out and let us know. Roadside conveniences.

Eating Out

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Ingenuity in food.  Predictable, but perfect timing. The Dracula Club in Bucharest, on Halloween. Tasty, tasty.

Romania, Bucharest, the Dracula Club on Halloween

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Try the fried rats. Boneless chicken breast in pumpernickel crumbs, stuffed with pureed pimento to ooze out, little feetses and eyes and whiskers and tails and yum. Where is this from? Love to eat them mousies. Mousies what I love to eat. Bite they little heads off. Nibble they tiny feet." Looking.

Design Winners

10. Ingenuity.

Ingenuity in access.

Staircase with slide. Wolfsberg, Austria.

Far smarter and more fun than we, is that so? Just add 24" for a slide beside the staircase. Wolfsberg.

Royalty

9.  Royalty

Is half a king as good as a whole?  Here, Romania.

 Romania. Half a king, half a king, half a king. onward.

Is it Mircea the Old? We hope this is a salvage from a whole statue, just with the bottom lost, but have no idea.  Just in a town, looked like somebody's back yard.

Tourist Business - A Few of our Favorite Childish Things

Tours for the Bloated

Turistfart.

Tours for the gaseous, Denmark

Tours for Couch Potatoes.

The VegaTour

VegaTour, Geneva, Switzerland. Bus for veggies.

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Vegetable Tour bus. Geneva, Switzerland. Beets me.

Environment, Recycling

Environment matters.
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Pet recycling center, Geneva, Switzerland

Recycle your pet here.

The Unexpected Rest Stop

Road Fatigue.  If you tire while driving down the Dalmatian Coast, after the seventh gorgeous walled city on an island or peninsula, here is your armchair rest stop. Sit yourself down and set a spell.

 Croatia. Roadside Armchair Rest Spot

Religion beckons

The arts. 

Cathedral front portal,  Bern, Switzerland. Cramping someone's style.

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Repent. 

Bern Cathedral presents the alternative.

Surnames, Place Names, Graffiti

Enjoy with us some other oddments or notables (barely) here. We are told that figuring out anomalies is good for intelligence. There is creativity in just noting and figuring out anything, making silly connections. Go.

1.  Surnames, Place Names.

My own birth name meant "cormorant" - an ugly bird if there ever was one - but useful - so these other country and language matters are not poking fun at, just enjoying.

Car ad for Buttburner Company, Switzerland

 Store chain, Fuchs, Murten, Switzerland

The f word with its alternate spellings constitute venerable surnames and town names. See ://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t201682-austrian-town-name-warning-dorty-werdz.html/. But no fair looking them up first, and then going.  It has to be spontaneous.

Translating and its pitfalls; a normal part of a lexicon one place turns into fun in another.

The affinity of the German language for joke-translations of its f-word  into the notorious Anglo-Saxon four letter word was a product of  WWII, 1945 and on, said one site we found. The homecoming soldiers spoke at home of words and places, and they and the folks back home picked up from the sounds the two way streets suggestions.  Is that so? 

Then why not earlier, at WWI?  Did nobody talk?

Windpassing, Austria

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Find a site of unusual place names, including this Windpassing, at ://infao5501.ag5.mpi-sb.mpg.de:8080/topx/archive?link=Wikipedia-Lip6-2/772930.xml&style/.

 Frankensteiner Strasse, Frankfurt, Germany

The danger of this one, Le Sars, we hope, has passed.

France.  Le Sars. 5 km

2.  Graffiti

This near Wittenburg Castle.

 How high the moon? Germany

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For a history of classical and other mooning, peruse Vetting Roots, Michelangelo and History of Mooning

The serious and the nonsensical: underpinnings

Countries share recurrent migrations, disasters, boons, mythologies, invasions, and other tensions surrounding population ethnic identity and self-determination. There is also the fun in humor. No matters along those lines are intended to belittle any culture or language, but to share the kicks of delight. Even if short-lived, and non-intellectual. We hope you enjoy, but don't worry about it. This is for us.