How it started Ursula Groden-Kranich (CDU = centre-centre-centre-right) was Mainz’s directly elected MP for the last 2 legislative sessions of the Bundestag. Place was plastered with her election posters, along…
….for I am here to save theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee……. Balancing act on the Kulturufer in NQM Bingen
The graduate with an Engineering degree asks, “How does it work?” The graduate with an Accounting degree asks, “How much will it cost?” The graduate with…
..at the Mirror Garden on Bingen’s Kulturufer
…marks the spot. The Kulturufer (Culture Foreshore) in NQM Bingen is a highly successful conversion from a dire railway shunting yard to the stunning location for the State Horticultural Show…
Used to be, anyway. If you want to cross the Rhine anywhere between Wiesbaden and Koblenz ( a good hour’s drive) , you’re stuck with using ferries. Ferry operators are…
A whole barge-load of amethysts? And no guards? Seen at the quayside in Bingen
On the industrial crane in the Rhine-side park in Bingen
The park-that-used-to-be-the-old-shunting-yard-on-the-banks-of-the-Rhine-in-Bingen-until-it-hosted-the-State-Horticultural-Show-in-2010 is always worth a visit. (Even if those bloody pensioners shout at you for cycling in an utterly deserted park…) For the past 2 years, they’ve featured a…
The only thing missing is “U”… A truncated “Bingen am Rhein” logo
The confluence of the Nahe and Rhine at Bingen
…act. Figuratively speaking. Crane in the park-that-used-to-be-the-old-shunting-yard on the banks of the Rhine in Bingen. Carved from a single piece of sweet chestnut wood. No, that was yesterday’s….
The things one learns… There’s a film, an obscure German band and an extremely resource-rich form of ancient excommunication. 12 priests, a culprit and a grievous crime. Things were fairly…
> …an Eiswein. Another NQM moment. The Eiswein monument is a mere hsaaj down river in Bingen, opposite the Niederwalddenkmal (in the far distance, commemorating the creation of the German…
> .. as the situationally unware are wont to say. Can’t get lost on the Rhine, though. Every 1000 metres, a whacking great sign like this tells you exactly where…
> They didn’t have stuff like this when I was a kid. The State Horticultural Show in Bingen has something for all ages. This is a kiddies’ playground in the…
> Pretty sloppy security at the Landesgartenschau (State Horticultural Show) in Bingen the other week. This chappy appears to have got through all the barriers and clambered up to the…
> The Landesgartenschau in Bingen is chock-full of surprises. This guy is BIG. I was somewhat disappointed that his eyes weren’t headlights that light up at night, though……. Click here…
> At the Landesgartenschau in Bingen (Told you you’d be swamped…) Loungers and chairs sprinkled all around the park. Just the nicest idea (Mr Helen would subscribe to that idea…
> Toddled off to the Landesgartenschau in Bingen with Ms jb, Helen and Mr Helen yesterday evening (cut-price tickets as from 5pm…) It’s an absolute treat. Apart from some stunningly…
>There’s the Federal Horticultural Show – the Bundesgartenschau – held biannually and it’s such a huge prestige object that cities are queueing up to apply for the honour of hosting…
> No exaggeration. Hildegard of Bingen. Abbess, artist, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, activist, visionary and composer. She’s been referred to by at least one modern…
>… and follow the B42.” “She” being the Becker Satnav system. Neglecting to mention, of course, that there’s not actually a direct connection between the B9 and the B42. Unless…
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