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Cats crossing
In De Loostraat in the Eindhoven city district of Tongelre a new road sign has been placed that warns against crossing cats. A 10-year-old girl lost three cats from cars driving too fast and managed...
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Still waiting
I used to work at a factory that made these things, albeit not in Dutch. The sign should read Groenburgwal, and so has an ‘r’ too many. Hope it was free. This is akin to finding a four-leaf clover (and...
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“Thou shalt not” in Amsterdam
The past few weeks I came across these prohibitory signs in Amsterdam. More and more people seem to think that anything that is not explicitly allowed (by whatever nebulous authority) must therefore be...
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Students give back 300 traffic signs
No student house is complete without a traffic sign lifted without permission during a drunken late-night ramble. Or so I have heard.The Groningen police seem to think that traffic signs belong on the...
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Don’t eat bulbs, warns supermarket
This is one of those inside-the-asylum moments: Supermarket Albert Heijn sells baskets with flower bulbs, and at the bottom it says: “For decorative purposes only, do not eat.” Inside-the-asylum...
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Bicycles as shop signs
On Monday I saw this bicycle sticking out of a wall in the Westerpark neighbourhood of Amsterdam to indicate that the shop below sells and repairs bikes. Later that day I saw that another entrepreneur...
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Road sign riddle in Zaltbommel
These signs spotted in Zaltbommel, Noord-Brabant look like more of a riddle than actual road signs, but the worse part is, they say exactly what the municipality needed to say: no horseback riders....
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So many signs, still many bike removals
Downtown Amsterdam near the Leidseplein, one of the main party areas, a total of 54 bright signs asking folks to remove their bikes before April 23 was not enough to make it happen, forcing the city...
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Longest Dutch street name sign disappears
In Early December, not too long ago in a land not too far away – Duiven, Gelderland in the East of the country which some of you might know for its big Swedish furniture store – was able to claim they...
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