More art deco fonts.
...and futuristic style skyscrapers.
Sometimes I just can't help but do double takes on these.
Here is a church... I kid you not. See the cross at the top?
I like the excellent double-entendre name for this zen coffee house.
When you order a meal in Australian cafes... you order at the cashier and they give you a little number to adopt for the duration of your stay... so that the waitress knows where to bring your order.
This very leading-edge energy rating system is supposedly available on all appliances in Australia. A very good idea to promote conservation!
Yes, bubble tea is also available in Australia. In fact, this popular chain creates a diagram to help newbies figure out how it works.
Interesting idea. Many parts of shopping malls and stores have hardwood floors... so to reduce the floor damage caused by wet puddles, these machines cover umbrellas with a plastic bags for free. Seems a little more complicated than it needs to be though... why not just hand out plastic bags?
Silly seat covers seem to be popular here...
...with some especially strange ones available.
Sydney is a major anti-plastic bag country... grocery stores and even shoe stores offer reusable cotton bags or recyclable brown bags instead of plastic bags.
With water availability being one of the biggest concerns in this hot country covered by dry deserts, toilets have both full and half flush capabilities.
There are many different interesting designs to display the full and half flush options.
As I said... there are many many creative designs.
At my apartment and in most public bathrooms, the bathroom doors even have this ingeneous feature. I felt like I was in an airplane but I still think it is brilliant! Every bathroom should have these. It would simplify life so much more.
Strange shop on a downtown city street carrying some pretty scary knives. Can't you just hear Crocodile Dundee saying "That's not a knife, this is a knife!"
