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Category Archive: Commerce

25 Apr

>They’re back – #955

> At the top end of the Augustinerstrasse. I wrote to a friend when the European airspace was closed down that it wouldn’t take long for it to become very…
25 April, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
20 Apr

>Blue – #950

> For someone who used to look at an aircraft that flew over the house and work out how much revenue that particular flight would generate  for the company(“€7.50 Weight…
20 April, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
16 Apr

>Late night shopping – #946

> Not absolutely jam-packed, eh? Shopping hours are fairly liberal after decades (centuries..?) of an appalling service ethic. Want to buy something on Wednesday afternoon in the village? No. (And…
16 April, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
14 Apr

>Got milk? -#944

> The discount chains (Aldi, Lidl et al) in Germany have over 50% of the grocery market and they pretty much set the market price for commodities. Milk, for example.…
14 April, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments
03 Apr

>What a mess – #933

>   This is the aftermath of a haute couture session involving Mrs jb, Christa G and my credit card. I’m always getting yelled at for leaving stuff lying around…
3 April, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
26 Mar

>Not to be missed – #925

> It’s that time of year again – the Rheinland-Pfalz Austellung (State Fair) hits town and I wouldn’t miss it for the world. First of all, I now get tickets…
26 March, 2010 at 12:25 1 Comment
25 Jan

>Men at work – #864

> And NOW I know why football/soccer players are overwhelmingly overcome by gravity and writhe around the pitch in excruciating pain as soon as one of the opposition gets near…
25 January, 2010 at 12:00 3 Comments
11 Jan

>Bovine basilica – #850

>   This is a “Kuhkapelle” or “cow chapel”, a groin-vaulted barn and a fairly common feature of farms in the region. The Romans (of course) had the idea first …
11 January, 2010 at 12:00 1 Comment
09 Jan

>Looping the Loop – #848

> 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,…
9 January, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments
30 Dec

>Stocking up – #838

>   The discount supermarkets in Germany have a huge market share – somewhere over 50%. You might then think that it’s all “pile it high and sell it cheap”…
30 December, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
29 Dec

Reinhilde -#837

Reinhilde Roth (on the right, with her sister Christine) runs the eponymous farm shop in the village. She started out with a tiny corner of her parents’ farmhouse, selling only…
29 December, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
14 Dec

>Honoured, indeed -#823

> Mainz appears to have ben discovered by Yoko Ono and Jeff Koons, although they appear to have run out of space and had to truncate Jeff’s name in the…
14 December, 2009 at 12:00 Leave a comment
12 Dec

>Bambi – #821

> Now, either Disney’s opening a new theme park in Mainz or this group of elegantly attired folk mingling with the wildlife in P&C, a clothing store, has something to…
12 December, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
11 Dec

>Instruments of torture – #820

> At Doc Höffler‘s Don’t think he used any of them, actually. Felt more like a Black and Decker hammer drill…
11 December, 2009 at 12:00 Leave a comment
04 Dec

>Echt bio – #813

> We’re nothing if not Politically Correct around here. (Did I hear some muted coughing in the background…?) Did you see it on the milk at Aldi the other day…
4 December, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
02 Dec

>Local heroes – #811

> Roland Rother runs a car repair workshop in Lörzweiler. Someone recommended him for an arcane airconditioning problem with one of the Saabs a couple of years ago. He spent…
2 December, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
01 Dec

>Monthly Theme Day – Waiting – #810

> Some people claim not to shop at Aldi. A bit downmarket, they say. (In England, middle class wimmin with higher aspirations have even been seen using Sainsbury and Waitrose…
1 December, 2009 at 11:58 5 Comments
15 Nov

>Catwalk -#794

> New place has opened up in the Kirschgarten. “Laufsteg” which translates as “Catwalk” More like cat house, if you look at the gear the window flossies are wearing. Not…
15 November, 2009 at 12:00 Leave a comment
09 Nov

>A day at Caffea Moguntia – reloaded #788

> The saga continues… It is not a good idea to put your hands into the beans straight after they’ve come out of the roaster. It is not a good…
9 November, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
05 Nov

>Shameless commercialism – #784

> Not my photo. Not even Mainz. And not even in English. Frank the Potter and 3 of his mates have taken over the running of the Potters’ Market in…
5 November, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
04 Nov

>Coats of (not) many colours -#783

> Given that black appears to be the “new black”, monochrome might be more appropriate… Mantelsonntag in Mainz
4 November, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
29 Oct

>Unreconstructed – #777

> This electrical store in the Gaustrasse is just soooo retro. “Dual” and “Saba” are hifi brands that haven’t been on the German market for decades. And he doesn’t have…
29 October, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
20 Oct

>The Tetris House – #768

>   This house went up so quickly that if you blinked, you’d miss a wall being slotted in place. Done and dusted in 8 hours. I kid you not.…
20 October, 2009 at 11:00 Leave a comment
19 Oct

>First….#767

> you dig a hole. This is “Building Houses in Germany 101” at the new subdivision at the top of the hill. Given the horrendous price of the section, you…
19 October, 2009 at 11:00 Leave a comment
16 Oct

>A Day at Caffea Moguntia – reloaded #764

>    And once the roaster’s really ripping along, you’ll need to keep pulling out samples with this thingy to make sure that you’re actually roasting the beans. And not…
16 October, 2009 at 11:00 Leave a comment
24 Sep

>A Day at Caffeea Moguntia – reloaded #742

> And then they crank the roaster up to 150ºC (work out what it is in cubits and stuff yourselves…) and pay  v e r y  c l o s…
24 September, 2009 at 11:00 1 Comment
18 Sep

>A Day at Caffeea Moguntia – reloaded #736

> Last week, I showed you a picture of some coffee beans… (You’ll tire of this, I promise) The next step it to roast them in this highly polished roaster.…
18 September, 2009 at 11:00 1 Comment
16 Sep

>A Day at Caffeea Moguntia – #734

> The folk at Caffea Moguntia (the inimitable “Tin Shed on Wheels“) have their coffee roastery in a cool little precinct in Bodenheim, a hop, skip and a jump down…
16 September, 2009 at 11:00 1 Comment
12 Sep

>Bedridden? – #730

> This sounds almost mediaeval.. On the other hand, they might be trying to de-bed themselves Whatever.
12 September, 2009 at 11:00 1 Comment
09 Mar

>The Telekom giveth….#727

> ….and Freenet taketh away. In the process of switching ICT providers – Telekom for voice and Freenet for DSL to Freenet for the whole shebang (as-much-as-you-can-eat VOIP, 16-fold boost…
9 March, 2009 at 12:00 6 Comments
07 Mar

>T for two… #725

> …or is it four. Telecom, the privatised SOE, tried to patent magenta as their brand colour. Fat chance. It pretty much has a monopoly when it comes to public…
7 March, 2009 at 12:00 Leave a comment