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It’s not every shopping mall that can boast a MiG21 doing a veeeery slooooow (reminds me of this) barrel roll as one of its attractions.

Loop 5 can.

NQM, but worth a post nevertheless.

Huge place with an aeronautical theme (being just down the road from one of Europe’s major airports helps…) and cool stuff like simulated aircraft sections with real aircraft seats as Abandoned Husband zones.

Some pretty decent looking coffee places, some very dodgy looking coffee places, the usual mix of cuisines (albeit a tad heavy on the Asian, one amazingly named “Eat Gobi”) at the Innernational Food Court, an Apple retailer and lots of shops, the names of which I’ve never heard – let alone can pronounce –  and which appear to sell stuff that is decidedly non-essential to the survival of the human race.

Mrs jb bought something vilely purple which I’m told is the fashion colour this week.

But they’re very cunning.

The mall’s called Loop because it comprises two massive ovals on top of each other, which means that those of us suffering from early Alzheimers can be given a shove in a random direction and we’ll drift around like Duracell bunnies, looking in wonderment at all the shops and by the time we get back to our starting point, we’ve forgotten that we’ve seen it before and it’s ALL NEW, so we keep on going.

We do this for hours until we’re collected and told to drive home.

Unless the batteries have run out, of course, in which case we just stand there, gazing at “Eat Gobi” with absolutely no idea what to do with it…..

09 Jan This entry was published on 9 January, 2010 at 12:00. It’s filed under Commerce, Mainz and tagged NQM. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.