Today being Ascension Day, Chagall’s Archangel whatshisname appears to be heading in the wrong direction. Whatever. Maybe he’s on his way to join us for a beer in Bavaria. His…
Kupferbergterasse down to the Emmerich-Josef-Strasse. And back up again.
Even if it *is* a genetically modified carrot-clover hybrid
The month of May has been a bit dodgy. April was stupidly warm, with only a few days below 20C. May turned out to be April a month late. And…
Or is it “Iri”? Whatever. Roof garden at the top of Emmerich-Josef-Strasse. (Named after Prince-Elector and Archbishop Emmerich Joseph von Breidbach zu Bürresheim. Doubtlessly truncated to spare the city coffers…
Company….dis..missed! This what the Osteiner Hof used to be. The Osteiner Hof (“Court of Ostein”) is one of several Baroque-era palatial mansions along Schillerplatz square in the German city of…
…with cathedral. Corner of Domstrasse and Liebfrauenplatz
St Stephan’s (of Chagall window fame): 990 years old. Which isn’t REALLY old for around here, but it’ll do Grungy post-war utilitarian on the left: 60-ish New: The flash apartment…
The gals from H&L appear to have tapped a source for cheap labour. I keep on telling these little people (there are 3) that getting unionised would be to their…
In the art gallery that is the Augustinergässchen
…through the Augustinergässchen
…it means “at the excavate” Given that it’s part of a display outside the Johanniskirche, I don’t think it’s Portuguese….
Paul Bonna, proprietor of the ever-excellent kaffeekommune in the Gaustrasse (worth the climb…) obviously thinks – at the ripe old age of 25… – that opening 5 days a week…
Christmas baubles capping flagstaffs? OTT, IMHO.
In the Gaustrasse
Frankfurter Hof, Mainz
Details in the cloisters at St Stephans
“The last Bitburger bowser before the Chagall church” You have been warned…
Er…Saturday? Petrea Burchard, actor, author, ex Pasadena Daily Photo blogger still delights with her Monday Zen series of “Well, you tell me…” images. This one falls fully into her category…
…scratch! No-one does it better than Falco – everybody’s favourite dog – here with his appropriately dressed owner.
…but it pours. A Määnzer Mädche gets her feet wet on the Ballplatz
The location at the corner of the Ludwigstrasse and the Weissliliengasse appears to be somewhat of an albatross around the neck of any restaurant that opens there. Both the Bagel…
…when did Sarah (second from left) grow up, then? We know Sarah – she’s his nephew’s daughter. Nicest family you could imagine – through our friend Christoph. On the market…
aka “Lost” I kid you not – these birds were twisting the map around as if it was a car’s steering wheel. The only thing they DIDN’T do was turn…
..of Mary Whitehouse, what filthy mind designed that lighthouse” Mary Whitehouse was a firebrand protectress of public morals in Britain in the 1960s and 70s – Sisyphus springs to mind……
For 20-odd years, Senfkorn (“Mustard Seed – here’s the parable)has been a meeting point for folks with alcohol or psychological problems, where they could feel secure among their peer and…
A DHL delivery van brightens up an early morning Mainz, recovering after a good summer storm thumping yesterday afternoon. I’ve experienced some good storms around here, but this was closer…
Heat waves have differing intensities depending on where you live, it appears. I was in the UK over the weekend and – in a land where anything warmer than 25°C…
Then we shall begin. An invitation to rest a while at Dicke Lilli’s in the Gaustrasse. Nice enough place, but really naff coffee and full of yapping wimmin. I kept…
There are these ones, of course, but I’m trying to avoid brutal modernism as much as I can these days… Used to be gas, now electric bulbs, LEDs can’t be…
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