Between the Kaiserbrücke and Theodor-Heuss-Brücke
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…
The Sad Girl is a constant in Mainz – there are supposedly at least 70, some by the original artist, some knockoffs, This is a “for real” in the entrance…
Or Golden October, being the Teutonic equivalent of Indian Summer. No-one knows the origin of the North American terminology and it wouldn’t work here anyway, given the lack of aforementioned…
Over in the courtyard of the State Museum, they’ve got a stockpile of ready-made construction stoppers. I frequently warned that digging a hole in Mainz will hit mostly something of…
A month and nine days too early Kristallnacht – Crystal Night, a euphemism for the shards of broken glass that littered the streets – was a pogrom against Jews carried…
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 after summer evermore succeedsBarren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold;So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.—Gloucester, Henry IV, Part 2, Act II, scene 4 Not quite winter, Will,…
..before the Fairy Godmother turns them into golden carriages to take Cinderella to the ball. Otherwise you’ll have to provide your own mice to turn into horses, rat for a…
1599. Original windows. I thinkMaybe not. Bet the paint is, though… Gonsenheim, a flash (more-of-a-small-city-than-a) suburb of Mainz, has a bit of history. Early Stone Age – 4500 years ago…
“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…
Fine band. Maggie Bell, who sang backing vocals on Rod Stewart’s Every Picture Tells A Story. For which she should get a knighthood Or sainthood Or both. Not actually crows…
Parked in front of Kaffeekommune Paul’s front door – their apartment on the Rhine is in one of the very few 1890’s houses that survived WW2 – and we had…
..swanny river, the river being the Rhine at ..yep…Mainz. Evidently the collective noun for a group of Cygnus olor is a herd, a bevy or flock. A bit boring –…
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…
Scratching my head about this one…. 3 apartments above each other in a block at the bottom of the Gaugass. AFD is pretty obvious – Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for…
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…
.. I am not lonely” Reader at the flash-as-a-rat-with-a-gold-tooth residential development at the Zollhafen The line comes from this scene in “Heat”, the 1995 Michael Mann film, in which 2…
…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…
..but now and zens OK…. Zen Sushi, Leichhof
Or whatever the animal protection outfit is over here. Look at this poor malnourished aquatic nag. So skinny, you can see its ribs… Seen at a stable at the Zollhafen
Used to be a parking bay, Covid came along and stopped inside dining, Stadt Mainz said (surprisingly, they’re normally pretty stick-in-the-mud-ish..) “Grab a spot outside your restaurant and it’s all…
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…
Vikings – that’s what is says on the ship, anyway – heading back down the Rhine to the North Sea and all points north. The bunch I saw drifting aimlessly…
Two extremes? That would be work and home and that’s what “Pendler” means in German – oscillating between the two. Pendulus Latin From pendeō (“I hang”) + -ulus. hanging, hanging…
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…
Got dragged along to a garden place in Bretzenheim yesterday which tends to happen when major purchases loom and someone needs to pay for it. Eyewatering prices but the budgies…
….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…
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