Not a silly sign this time, but an unusual one. It recently appeared in the Market Place in Salisbury, and shows the way to places that signposts don’t usually point to. Saintes, in France, and Xanten, in Germany, are twinned with Salisbury. The other two arms point to Salisbury, Maryland and Salisbury, North Carolina.
However, they seem to have omitted Salisbury, South Australia.
A more understandable omission is the city now known as Harare, but, anyway, it wasn’t named after the city, but after a person, Lord Salisbury.
A good story arising from places of the same name happened several years ago, when several people from Amesbury, Massachusetts came into our coffee shop. They were on a coach tour, and had just been to see Stonehenge, and wanted a look at the town after which theirs was named.
Someone happened to mention that our Mayor at the time was a civilian clerk at the local Police Station. The Americans were impressed … none more so than a man who told us he was a Law Enforcement Officer.
‘You mean’
he said‘that the cops around here get to tell the Mayor what to do? Wow!’
Ha ha ha. Good story. I love that sign pointing to different places around the world. I didn’t realise there were so many other Salisburys.
By: Selma on July 18, 2008
at 4:28 am
I know there’s a milestone in the Himeji Japanese Garden in Adelaide, indicating the distance to Himeji, with which Adelaide is twinned.
By: travelrat on July 19, 2008
at 6:05 am