> ….it’s a Jaguar, and I’ll get you to the plane on timeDrinkin’ Lone Star, play guitar, we’ll have a real good time Texas Rose Cafe – Little Feat [Listen]…
> Not actually flying off the lot at the moment…..
> Saturday morning grocery bill: €46.23 Having the cashier say “Unbezahlbar” when she scans your little boy and hands him back to you: Priceless. There are some things money can’t…
> Difficult times around here, what with caffeine withdrawal symptoms and stuff….. The TSOW has been noticeably absent for a bit while the proprietors splurge their profits in Capetown…
> If you’re a bookbinder, you’re treading on hallowed soil in Mainz, given that Johannes Gutenberg’s birthplace is just around the corner. Can’t get much closer to the source of…
> They’re not even flying the flags at halfmast these days at the Deutsche Bank. The financial sector hasn’t been hit as badly as their US and UK counterparts (no…
> I have a soft spot for Landrovers. I learnt to drive on one quite similar to this way back in the Dark Ages and Dad and Snow Prouse used…
>I’ve been doing a fair bit of looking up recently. I’m amazed I don’t have a sore neck. The new buildings at the back of the Market Houses are finished…
> Serious stuff, this apple picking business at Appel Happel in Lerchenberg. Following the mantra “Never carry more than you eat” (or is it the other way round?), we get…
> Bookshops aren’t about books. They’re about people. Borders isn’t a real bookshop as far as I’m concerned. It’s just the “mortar” bit in the “Clicks and Mortar” business model.…
> Just a teaser. So you know where I’ll be hanging out on Saturday…
One of the (few) things wrong with Mainz is the dire lack of breweries. There’s the Eisgrub. And that’s it. It’s not as if there didn’t USED to be other…
> Not that I claim to know much about these things, but I believe that some women are silly enough to a) have large format photos takenb) submit themselves to…
> …..I’m just worn out” said Fanny Fendt. “Do come in and take the weight off your tires” said Mrs Massey-Ferguson. “Have a nice cup of diesel – that’ll make…
> Kalle – my mate Christoph’s grandson – appears to be indestructible. Falls over, bounces up. Lies flat on a skateboard and heads at high speed for the gap between…
> … when folks turn up at the local supermarket on horseback. Severe lack of hitching posts, though. And bike racks, for that matter, but that’s another story…
> Everyone gets them, claimed Andy Warhol. Lisa Bund’s had more than her fair share, if you ask me. Not content with getting into the finals of Germany’s “American Idol”…
> The Christmas season encroaches more and more every year. The first decorations turned up in one of those smelly shops (to which I’m allergic on both olfactoral and financial…
> Saturn, one of the national consumer electronics megastore chains, has an advertising slogan that’s become embedded into the language: Geiz ist geil (Cheap is cool) Germans being financially conservative,…
> proStore’s a nice new Apple (and PC) dealer that’s opened up in Mainz in Am Kronberger Hof. Macs on the left, PCs on the right (I obviously veer to…
> … Rhine cruise. (The Woodstock Generation might get it…) If you’re zipping up and down the Rhine or the Moselle, chances are you’ll be on one of the…
> I’m sure there’s a law against this, but – being lawyers – I suppose they’ve checked the legality of it all. I can see their point, though. Client fronts…
> … the Turkish butcher. Can’t find a darn thing about the history of the Neubrunnen Bad in the – yes – Neubrunnenstrasse. It was probably one of the institutions…
> Sunset in the container port
> I’d like to say that there’s a church next door, but there isn’t. You can see one – the Christuskirche – just down the road, though. “Cleanliness is about…
> …don’t you understand? POST NO BILLS Offenders will be prosecuted The Owner Black on white Can’t get much clearer than that, eh? Seen in the Gaustrasse
> Er, no. It’s not Hollywood. Sunset at the container port on the Rhine in Mainz. Mainz, Container Port, Rhine, Zollhafen, Rhein
> I had a bit of time to kill one morning last week before my physiotherapy session. If it had been Tuesday, Friday or Saturday I would have been round…
>One of the 3 or 4 hairdressers in the village. (I’d hope that this is the “before” image….) “Struwwelpeter” – Shock-headed Peter or Scruffy Peter (Mark Twain’s translation) – is…
>Cafe Dinges in the Altstadt has introduced a carbon-neutral cake delivery service. There appear to be quality issues – only 23% of the cakes reach their recipients in the anticipated…
>The Rheinland-Pfalz Austellung rolls around again. Big consumer thingie, a bit like the Easter Show in Auckland when I was growing up, but without the sheepdog trials and displays of…
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