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…
I’m a bit schizophrenic about this one … Born in the UK, but emigrated against my will at 4 years old. Grew up in New Zealand Lived and worked in…
…said Friederike Lauteren (1818–1884) the other week during a garden tour of the Mathildengarten in Nierstein. No, not a voice from the grave, but that of Barbara Reif who effortlessly…
Bunch of sticks in the mud. No sense of humour. No plays on words. No. Wait Here’s a poster for a Haydn (benefit for a good cause, make a donation)concert…
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…
(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…
Merck, a significantly large life sciences conglomerate, has its own Formula 1 team and its own philharmonic orchestra which (in a truncated form) performed a concert yesterday afternoon at the…
…by bars at the Augustinerkirche in the old town. I could understand it if they were to decree me (as a non-left footer) as persona non grata, but Ms jb’s…
…..the weirds metrognomes get going…. You really can’t make this shit up. Merck, the mega life science outfit in Darmstadt has its own philharmonic orchestra and an annual event is…
Alfa Romeo Spider Duetto, somewhere between 1966 and 1969 i.e. the time I left school to the time I left New Zealand. And somewhere north of €40k I had a…
People in positions of authority must be reading Mainz Daily Photo. Or maybe it’s just in in Sharona’s DNA….
Where have all the Julias gone?Long time passingWhere have all the Sharonas gone?Long time ago You used to be able to work out who was on the machine at the…
2014 was the celebration of the 1200 year anniversary of the demise of Carolus Magnus’/Charlemagne/Charles the Great/Karl der Große. King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during…
The American Cajun, Blues & Zydeco Festival rolled up at the Frankfurter Hof in Mainz again the night before last, with the Cajun Roosters (as always – Brit, German, Belgian,…
Ephemeral (from Greek εφήμερος – ephemeros, literally “lasting only one day”) This lasted < 2 minutes, being a core component of my celebration of New Zealand’s All Blacks beating Australia’s…
Pipes of the (relatively) new organ at St Stephans. “New” is always relative around here, given that we’re over 2000 years old. And 3 years old is just the blink…
Oh. They’re always there? (I’m not paranoid, but I just wish they’d stop following me…)
Frankfurter Hof in the Altstadt on Tuesday night. You could have taken a feed from the sound desk and issued it untouched. That good.
…but heaps of other good stuff… Natural History Museum
Andrew van Leeuwen and I go back a long way. Although it seems longer than just 3 years….. We hit it off straight away and I was mightily narked when…
The concerts I go to these days tend to attract the follically-challenged. Definitely the case with Hubert von Goisern and Dylan, less so in the case of John Hiatt. Dad…
…”A Midsummer’s Night”, by Wm. Shakespeare. Er, no. It’s actually Zettel’s Theater, a local troupe of thespians, who do an annual Shakespearean season in wineries and churches. This performance was…
Tools of the trade for a slate maker
Summer in the city back of my neck gettin’ dirty and gritty. Thus spake the Lovin’ Spoonful in 1966. Around here, it’s a series of open air concerts featuring some…
Why do I always have problems with the Allgemeine Zeitung, our local rag? A couple of years back, they lifted an image from this post and used it in their…
Maria Meyer and Ute Matschke are among my favourite potters. I don’t buy a lot of their work – their target market is more families with kiddies – , but…
The Burgundermarkt on the Gutenbergplatz is a bi-annual and much anticipated event where small producers from Mainz’s twin town of Dijon set up their stands and sell everything from fresh…
This lady appears to be geographically and temporally confused. She’s in the Botanical Gardens at Mainz University on a Sunday and she’s waiting for Anthropology, an American chain of stores…
N’Eis, the excellent ice-cream outfit on the Gartenfeldplatz in the Neustadt is renowned for its queues which frequently reached halfway down the block. Once you finally get in, you’re torn…
Klaawinnerum’s community noticeboard last weekend….
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