Signs

When one travels to a new place, the first things that he/she would easily notice are the signages and the language that’s written on them. Yup, store signs, street signs… all sorts of signs whether they’re some blinking neon lights, steel sheets fixed on posts, digital signage or billboards.

For instance, upon arriving in Thailand, one would notice Thai characters (sometimes together with their equivalent English pronunciation) on the street signs or mall entrances. In Finland, I immediately noticed the overhead directions at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport which are in Finnish, Swedish and English.

It’s an indication that you’re now stepping on a foreign land. Now that puts a big smile on the face of travel bugs, yeah.