Just look at this subversive mob of reprobates, gathered around a den of iniquity (aka a Trinkhalle, this one in the Lessingstrasse in Mainz) and planning whoknowswhat.. Trinkhalle. In the…
Let this be a warning to you if you’re considering installing underfloor heating. St Johannis is the 2nd oldest cathedral in Germany, having been consecrated in 910, but likely having…
Kuehn Kunz Rosen is one of 3 local micro-breweries in Mainz worthy of the name, the other two being Eulchen and Schwarze Rose (which has definitely become my favourite). There…
And it came to pass in the hamlet of Algoma in the County of the Door in the state they call Wisconsin on the banks of the body of water…
“Times are changed; we also are changed with them” Not Silke Wolf, though – it appears that Stadecken-Elsheim’s water supply must be somehow linked to the Fountain of Youth, because…
A bit NQM, but anyway… Zipped down to a plant market in Maikammer, around 90km south to help my mate Frank the Potter to pack up his kit and visited…
The Ali Baba Kebap Haus, just up the steps from the Gaugass, is arguably one of the best (if not the best) döner places in town*. And if only for…
Or 1950, for that matter? (I was mostly still unaware of what was going on, so I can’t help) But if you were George Washington, you’d be giving the first…
35 square metres. (That’s close to 400 square feet for the colonial cousins. Very bigly, as they say…) So here you have the largest page of a Gutenberg bible in…
kavé studio. | café & workshops | MainzSip⠀⠀create⠀⠀connectspecialty coffee & workshopsMainz | coming soon.26.04. Sip & Chat Door03.05. Opening Which was the day before yesterday and when we fronted up…
….or something. Drifting through a local supermarket yesterday and ……Monika Schmitt and her husband doing exactly the same thing. She started the pharmacy in our village in 2004 and ran…
Andreas Wagner is a polymath Take your pick: Historian/University lecturer/Vintner/Author of academic works/Author of crime and mystery novels/ Family historian It was in the latter role that he fronted up…
Looking for something to do/see/eat in and around Mainz? Then Lena Fiebig, self-employed social media and marketing consultant and by all accounts a pretty smart cookie, is just the girl…
My general slackness in things City Daily Photo in recent times logically limits my choice of image, but this is close to the best. iPhone 14 Pro with parallax error…
Naff boats. (If you want to see some *really *cool stuff, stroll over to my mate Houghton’s highly regarded Waitemata Woodies site) Nice marina. Cool apartments Stunning Christmas decorations
Germans have a humour bypass So goes received wisdom. This excellent outfit tucked away in the depths of Kirchgarten is proof that a) received wisdom is sometimes wrong and b)…
…that this dude will not survive until his Best By date of May 2025. Handmade with love in the minute kitchen at the Kaffeekommune with a witty repurposed coffee bean…
Or. The best thing that a potato can aspire to/to which a potato can aspire. Potato pancake. Potato latke. Reibekuchen. Kartoffelpuffer This is the queue (or line as the colonial…
Liesbeth is a cafe on the Zollhafen in Mainz, tucked in next to the Kunsthalle in what used to be the engine shed for the port Port. It’s been there…
(They do it differently in France.) Mainz used to be French, Strasbourg used to be German so it’s legit MDP territory. Marché de Noël With music… Place heaving with visitors,…
Lieblingsenkelin* (favourite granddaughter) Nicki Thoss, a highly talented ceramicist (and talented at pretty much any and everything she turns her hand to, actually, be it paper flowers, hand-printed Xmas cards…
This is too cool. Rosi was born in Mainz in 1934. She’s lived here all her life. She’d always talked to her grandchildren about her life, whether through their interest…
This cutting edge re-entry vehicle turned up in the middle of the Mainz Xmas market without the need for grabbing arms and suchlike. The crew mumbled something about its being…
Aka Silberreihe (Silver heron) Found here A bit skittish, so this was the best an iPhone 14 Pro can do, given the distance. But its real name is Kotuku (if…
Back in July (on a day as grey as yesterday. But not as cold…) I was taking a break in Frei-Weinheim at the Ingelheim-Oestrich-Winkel ferry ramp. Just over 20km from…
When you make wine, you harvest the grapes, press them and let them sit around while the yeast does its job on the sugar in the murky brew. This what…
It’s that time of year. Over 100 million migratory birds head south to warmer climes, these being – based on their V-formation – cranes or geese. Just hope that Trump…
There are good days. And then there are excellent days. Today started off as a good day. 10°C, not a breath of wind, patchy cloud, forecast of 17° in the…
..what’s not to like? Winterhafen in Mainz, cathedral in the distance, nice apartments to port and the Rhine to starboard. 10km into an 80km ride along the Main river towards…
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