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“Back” – an essential word. You need to know how to say this in the local language. If you are in a coach party and the driver didn’t succeed in stopping the vehicle until you are minutes walk away from your sign, maybe out of sight, round a bend, how happy are your fellow passengers going to be with a five minute wait for a difficult to explain reason? You must learn the phrases necessary to persuade the driver to back his coach up to within easy reach of the sign.





roadsign weirdness in Exeter
Alain Guët - The Portuguese Pedestrian
Bartolomeo Mecanico's Signs of the World
Len Breen - road signs
Wendy Chan - Oman
Jan Koelstra
Stoke Newington Church Street summer festival 1998
Suzanne Vlisser
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