…to spend €10/$13 a kilo on walnuts. Even if they do come from France. Seen in a greengrocers in Gonsenheim, one of Mainz’s flasher suburbs
Black and White Friday, actually. Don’t really understand the hooha, to be honest. You mean that people REALLY have to spend on Friday what they couldn’t spend on Thursday because…
New café in the Gaustrasse. Dicke Lilli, gutes Kind. Excellent espresso, naff cherry tart, great decoration. Not sure if it was Women’s Day (they have those at the local swimming…
I’m not sure if I should SAY something, but at a rough guess, I’d say that packet of rusks at the bottom is WELL past its “Best by” date….
You’ll rarely find a subject as photogenic as Peter Krings. Lucky me. (Talking about weaving: I once told Meg, a highly skilled fabric artist and co-author of Nelson Daily Photo,…
You’ll find Fina Alonso at the market in Bad Kreuznach on a Friday. And at Frank and Ingrid Jung’s Open Studio event in autumn. Not that I’m one of her…
Seen at Karina Jungenheimer’s open day in (sister) Rosi Nauth’s wonderful courtyard. Head: Peter Krings, chair seat basketry Hands: Rosi Nauth Feet: Unknown customer with Physallis Head, Hands and Feet? …
Sunday’s Child Uli’s mother-in-law’s mum, Katharina Roth, must had a stunning designer back in the 1960s or early 1970s. The only thing that gives this away as not being from…
Uli (for Ulrike) Zawar is the owner of “Sonntagskind“, a shop that can’t make up its mind* whether it’s an espresso bar or a kiddy clothes shop. (*It doesn’t need…
The Potsdamer Hof is a vineyard restaurant on the outskirts of Bodenheim, a proverbial HSAAJ from Mainz. We rocked over on Friday (the planned visit to Mainz’s wine festival in…
…empty. The Origin Pacific passenger terminal at Nelson airport. Origin Pacific was an airline owned by one of the local influentials that had been struggling since it started competing against…
Buying wine in New Zealand is a bit tricky, especially if you come from a traditional wine-growing region. There aren’t many small vineyards where you get to meet the vintner…
…next to Gillian Orange and Annette Blue. That’s what they wrote down when I asked them to emerge from anonymity for NTNDP/MDP when I photographed them at Basecamp, a serious…
Caffea Moguntia (aka the Tin Shed On Wheels = TSOW) is going to be with us all summer. Brigitte Müller-Dildei‘s son Dominic has taken over the market business (they’re in…
Need a travel agent to get it all set up for you? Gaby’s your girl….
Horrendousness at the local plant megastore
These shop-in-shop bakeries, tucked away in the entrances of supermarkets, fall in between REAL bakeries (start with flour, water and yeast at 4am and make real bread) and the “pressthebuttonforarollfromPoland”…
I’m usually on the other side, but I rocked down to the Markt der schönen Dinge in Mainz yesterday to say Hi to Karin Schweickhard and Michael Limbeck. Stall is…
The Boeing engineers working on the prototype 747 nicknamed it “The Messiah”. Virtually everyone who entered the massive hull said “JESUS CHRIST!”. I can verify that – experienced one on…
We’ve known Pierre Schott for ages and a day. He used to restore scrubbed pine furniture in his workshop in the old Lampenfabrik before it got all gentrified and flashed…
Want to be a landscape gardener? Among other things, you’ll learn how to lay cobblestones. During your 3 year apprenticeship
Important stuff, this. Taste The Waste is a grass-roots political platform created to combat food waste. They put on an event on the Gutenbergplatz on Friday, serving 3500 really good…
Only 106 days to Christmas and the first Lebkuchen and Stollen appear in the local hypermarket where the barbecues and sun umbrellas used to be….. So what happened to that…
…….trick. Some people stand out on the market. People carrying around cheese packed in gingham-patterned paper, for instance………
…I rather like the Klarastrasse. Thanks to Marcel for the discovery
Marcel Meyer’s “You Work Where I Live” project continues to fascinate me, despite the fact that his temporary gallery has closed and he’s back at university. Of all the portraits,…
..is having a Reduziert. If you have to translate [übersetzen]your advertising [Werbung] into your customers’ own language [Sprache], you’ve got the wrong advertising agency [Werbeagentur]. Linguistic fail.
…busting out all over….. Seen at Yokojeff Onokoon in the Augustinerstrasse
> I like tulips, but not THAT much…..
> “But I could buy a NEW one for that money” she stammered. €198 for getting a bike that hadn’t been ridden for 7 years up to scratch doesn’t sound…
> It’s no wonder that Nimmerland (the German translation of J.M. Barrie’s “Neverneverland” from “Peter Pan”), an independent bookshop for kiddies in Gonsenheim is thriving. And it’s no wonder that…
Mainz Daily Photo 