…Orbis.Well, not quite accurate – it’s actually Urbi et Orbi (“to the city and to the world”) – and Orbis, a small town in the Palatinate with a population of…
…the Amiche. Which used to be a 30km/15 stop rural railway line linking Alzey and Bodenheim from the late 19th century until the mid-1980s. Tracks pulled and part of the…
There are red grapes with white flesh. That would be Pinot Noir plus a few others. That’s one of the varieties they use to make champagne. Which is…basically a white…
Or.. how Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstrasse in Mainz reached a global audience of over 50 million viewers.Via Chinese Global Television Network Six degrees of separation is the idea…
Friedrich Roeingh, the editor of the regional Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung picked up on my research and published this article in yesterday’s weekend edition. (DeepL.com translation below) No more kicking the…
This is the story of 4 significant sculptures by a significant living artist flanking the entrance to the world’s leading printing museum. The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. It’s…
Can you have 2 places where you feel you belong? I guess so. I got tapped for the March theme and I chose – there was a bit of pushback…
Down here in NotNelson, I’m really spoiled for choice. In Mainz, there IS only one coffee house worth considering, namely Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune. Paul himself, with an espresso cup…
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
..says Sid, guest photog Ute Matchke‘s hound. “Finally” says jb. Wednesday instead of Monday, last seat on Thai to Bangkok NottheNelsonDailyPhoto.com takes over from here in a day or so.…
Glass half-full? Well, if you’re trying to fly down to New Zealand to escape the winter and kick-start notthenelsondailyphoto, what you DON’T need is for Lufthansa’s cabin staff to cripple…
…all come down at once. And not in dribs and drabs. Or even SINGLY… It’s the middle of bloody November!
2014 was the celebration of the 1200 year anniversary of the demise of Carolus Magnus’/Charlemagne/Charles the Great/Karl der Große. King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during…
Guest photog Ute Matschke again. She really is good….
The Jewish cemetery in Hechtsheim
The American Cajun, Blues & Zydeco Festival rolled up at the Frankfurter Hof in Mainz again the night before last, with the Cajun Roosters (as always – Brit, German, Belgian,…
Used to be gas, now LEDs run on solar energy. Wait. That can’t be right…..
The Aeropress coffee at kaffeekommune is so good, it’s luminescent…..
The last hollyhock blossoms…
At this rate, guest photographer Ute Matschke is going to be permanent staff… This wonderful landscape shot would have been ideal for yesterday’s Monthly Theme Day, but I figured that…
Ephemeral (from Greek εφήμερος – ephemeros, literally “lasting only one day”) This lasted < 2 minutes, being a core component of my celebration of New Zealand’s All Blacks beating Australia’s…
A forcibly teetotal cherubim (seraphim…?) on the Osteiner Hof.
“I’ll snuffle anyway” Sid at work. Guest photog: Ute Matschke
…better than I can. (That’s “Fall” for the colonials…) My friend (and client, but more friend than client..) Ute Matschke took this with a smartphone. Which just proves that it’s…
Also in Mainz. Also in Rheinland-Pfalz. Also in Germany. Anyway, that’s what the award says that has pride of place on the wall at the Martinstube, slap bang in the…
Raise thine eyes to the heavens and look with wonder at St Stephanus…. Probably has to finish with “I beseech thee” Wouldn’t know…
No “pre-loved rolls” from the day before. No “vintage loaves” at half price. They’ll be up at 3am, firing up the ovens and driving the neighbours crazy with the smell…
..got the t-shirt. Er, shopping bag
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – dig at your peril in Mainz. You’re likely to stumble across a Roman boatyard with the remains of 17 canoes.…
