Little things that are Weird, Awesome or Stupid... part 1

Traffic Lights

The bike traffic lights are the little ones underneath.

First of all, the bikes have their own traffic lights—well at the big intersections at least. The pedestrian crossings at lights are painted like our normal pedestrian crossings, and they all have islands in the middle. There isn’t a button to push at half the sets of lights I’ve come across, and not all of them sing when it is your turn to cross. When you’re sitting at a red light, the orange one will come on as well for a few seconds before turning green, so that’s cool and actually pretty clever.

Driving on the Right

Every single time that I’m walking down the footpath or staircase and someone’s coming at me from the other direction, it takes a few seconds to realise that I’m the one on the wrong side… I’m subconsciously walking on the left side of the way, where everyone else is walking on their right hand side. It’s also really annoying with escalators… you get off and go to turn left but that’ll be the wrong side for where you want to go. You have to turn right. Also people stand on the right side, and if you want to walk quickly you go up the left. For the record, they seem pretty good at not blocking people’s ways. And I keep forgetting that if I want to get a bus to go that way, it leaves on the other side of the road. Since, you know, that’s where they drive.

Walking paths

Cobblestones

Look pretty but are annoying to walk on. Hence there are narrow concrete walking strips down the footpaths with cobblestones. Gold stars!

Bikes
Are freaking everywhere. I also keep forgetting to look for bikes as I get off the bus, since it mostly goes |road|cycleway|footpath|. Haven’t hit any yet. From 3.30-5.30 you’re not allowed to take bikes on the metro (being peak hour)… otherwise it’d be crazy.

Commuter parking... Danish style

Inside an S-Train.

Ski Arcade Games

Models

Aren't they gorgeous?

Who said all models are thin and stereotypically beautiful?

Game Machines

In addition to driving games, pinball, foosball... enter skiing!!

That’ll do for now J Hasn’t snowed yet, and my phone hasn’t figured out that I changed the sim card, so you can message me on Viber on my Australian number and I can reply fine! Katrina said it was 'cold' this week... 20 degrees? Awww, you poor things.