Ou homard. Not quite sure. MDP’s on vacation for a couple of weeks and – seeing as how posting from the road is frowned upon – this’ll be it until…
The building that houses the “Löwen Apotheke” (Lion Pharmacy) has been around since 1568 and in this possie (with a brief relocation around the corner in the Schusterstrasse due to…
“Who’s there?” “Lilac” “Lilac who?” “Lilac anything if someone asks your age….”
People in Lederhosen and braces embroidered with Edelweiss on the market the other day. Definitely not locals…
After the prolonged winter, we’ve had a good mix of warmth and rain to get the vegetation going. Asparagus – as rare as hens’ teeth and expensive as anything until…
No need for water diviners around here – just dig down 80 metres, then 1.1 metres to the left and then another 6.6 metres and you’re there…
“Mum said that if I keep sucking my thumb, it’ll disappear. She didn’t say anything about it turning BLUE….”
Is this something like “Plug and play” or have I got things mixed up again. As far as I can work out from the picture, you drive out to one…
…there’s a way. Reusable shopping bags from the ever-excellent Shakespeare & So in the Gaustrasse. True story: Ms jb’s English is so excellent, because her mother (would have been her…
Spring fever getting you down? Can’t be feeling as faded as these 2, I’m sure. Mind you, you’re not a couple of hundred years old….. Sandstone plaque at St Stephans.
Gudrun Klag is one of the flower ladies on the market in Mainz, selling bulk blossoms but also bound bunches. She has a consistent seasonal theme – Mainzer Frühling in…
…except bad legislation” Kinky Friedman, the original “Texas Jewboy”, musician, author, politician (ran for Governor in Texas in 2006 – got 13% in a 6 candidate race – and running…
This is like walking through a crowd and hearing snatches of conversation. This graffiti took me straight back to a 30 year old lyric Sort of.
Frank Jung learned potting as a apprentice production thrower in a factory in Höhr-Grenzhausen, one of the centres of ceramics in Germany, First, you do menial tasks (clean up after…
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