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.…
Pipes of the (relatively) new organ at St Stephans. “New” is always relative around here, given that we’re over 2000 years old. And 3 years old is just the blink…
Our neighbour planted a Catalpa bignonioides a few decades ago. It appears to have enjoyed the location, because it grew enthusiastically. It’s a beautiful tree. For 3 days a year,…
Oh. They’re always there? (I’m not paranoid, but I just wish they’d stop following me…)
ZZ Top clones as Rockin’ Santas. At least it’s not “Rockin Santa’s…….. Yet….
People, it’s only mid-October. Why on EARTH are you selling bottles of mulled wine as if the festive season is only a week away. Next thing, they’ll be selling Christmas…
I attended the laying of two Stolpersteine – “stumbling blocks’ – yesterday morning on a cold wet day that was a friend to no-one and which seemed more than appropriate…
