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13 May

Hiwwel

That’s local dialect for “Hügel”, a hill. And topographically, Rheinhessen is right up there Someone came up with the idea of developing walks of around 11km through vineyards/woods/open fields and…
13 May, 2024 at 17:27 Leave a comment
29 Apr

Blind as a …

…Anguis fragilis (aka deaf adder, slowworm, blindworm, long-cripple or hazelworm. Actaully a legless lizard Making tracks between rue (Ruta graveolens) and Swiss chard, having recently shed its skin and on…
29 April, 2024 at 09:28 2 Comments
28 Apr

“Da hunger wird et hell”

On the 100km bike path between Mainz and Koblenz. 4.5 hours. Non-electric. Whenever I see a sliver of blue in the distance of a grey sky, I always think affectionately…
28 April, 2024 at 18:27 Leave a comment
25 Apr

Summer specials

10 degrees. Summer. Yeah right…
25 April, 2024 at 15:35 Leave a comment
24 Apr

It’s the end of April! FFS!

24 April, 2024 at 17:57 1 Comment
19 Apr

La Gallerie, Gaugass

Just across the road from St Stephan’s with the Chagall windows and where I met Monsignor Mayer all that time ago. Excellent prix fixe lunch, nice guests and just up…
19 April, 2024 at 16:55 Leave a comment
18 Dec

What a time to be alive!

Davis Slack is a speech writer, woke (as in: knows history and sees an injustice at 100 yards) as shit, humourist, published author and all-round good guy. He writes daily…
18 December, 2023 at 07:33 Leave a comment
25 Oct

Autumn is spelled Hokkaido

25 October, 2023 at 15:46 Leave a comment
26 Aug

“Wer ihn kannte, weiß was wir verloren haben””.

“Those who knew him know what we have lost” wrote Annemarie, Billy Crash’s widow. This strikes home like an arrow to the heart. I first saw Martin – pronounced “Maddean”in…
26 August, 2023 at 14:05 Leave a comment
14 Oct

Mainz. Market. Autumn

14 October, 2022 at 20:17 Leave a comment
11 Sep

Blebee on dahlia

You can’t see the rest of the insect, which is, of course, its bum. In America, of course, it’s called the Assblebee…
11 September, 2022 at 19:23 Leave a comment
05 Feb

Doesn’t time fly when you’re having a good time?

Let’s roll the clock back 10 years. There’s an article in Sensor magazine about a couple of young dudes opening a pop-up espresso bar at the corner of Gaustrasse and…
5 February, 2022 at 08:42 1 Comment
28 Oct

Lyttelton Coffee Company

28 October, 2021 at 23:15 Leave a comment
29 Sep

All the leaves are brown..

…sang the Mamas and Papas. Autumn creeps into Mayence
29 September, 2021 at 16:28 Leave a comment
28 Sep

Truth in advertising. Or creative recycling…

How it started Ursula Groden-Kranich (CDU = centre-centre-centre-right) was Mainz’s directly elected MP for the last 2 legislative sessions of the Bundestag. Place was plastered with her election posters, along…
28 September, 2021 at 09:51 Leave a comment
07 Sep

Watt’s your poison?

Scheck-In (no, don’t ask me…) is a local supermarket belong to the Edeka chain, one of the 2 legacy supermarket groups fighting for their lives against the discounter (Aldi, Lidl…
7 September, 2021 at 17:36 Leave a comment
28 Aug

Pylon those twigs…..

Scratch a German and you’ll likely find a nature lover hidden inside that humourless exoskeleton. Proof of this are the nesting structures for storks they’ve set up all over the…
28 August, 2021 at 16:22 Leave a comment
27 Aug

Baldy? No, that’s….

…the other one. This would be Olaf Scholz, SPD chancellor candidate in the upcoming federal election with a good chance of succeeding Angela Merkel, who could possibly have a chat…
27 August, 2021 at 18:25 Leave a comment
14 Aug

Now, *that’s* a well-fitting toupé….

But you should see the *other* guy…
14 August, 2021 at 12:02 1 Comment
28 May

Coffee’s more than black and white

Says Paul Bonna, barista extraordinaire, owner and proprietor of the exquisite Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstarsse and friend (despite my having a good decade on his Mum) for close on a…
28 May, 2021 at 18:00 Leave a comment
09 Jan

Mooring ring. Towpath. Rhine

9 January, 2021 at 18:17 Leave a comment
26 Dec

“And no, I DON’T like it….”

“OF COURSE it’s going back…!” Some people are just a bit too choosy. Gridlock at the post office in Klaa-Winnerum
26 December, 2020 at 09:00 Leave a comment
22 Dec

Amaryllis?

Actually, it’s a Hippeastrum. From South America. Indoor bulb. Amaryllis (Amarylli?…) hail from South Africa. Outdoor bulb. But they generally run under Amaryliss and you have to fight your way…
22 December, 2020 at 19:18 Leave a comment
14 Dec

The joys….

…of winter cycling. Somewhere down there is a concrete farm road. Somewhere…
14 December, 2020 at 10:52 Leave a comment
12 Dec

Devo in bloom….

…Mainz in gloom. My mate Houghton – connoisseur, master mariner, nautical historian and surrogate bro-in-law – who lives in Devo(nport), a village suburb of Auckland in New Zealand takes great…
12 December, 2020 at 12:11 Leave a comment
03 Dec

Minimalism

Christmas tree decorations at Paul’s ever excellent Kaffeekommune. That’s it. Seriously…
3 December, 2020 at 16:43 1 Comment
02 Dec

Er, maybe not….

Bro Paul of Auckland-West fame (and too good a photographer not to resurrect his site) reminded me today that I should by rights be in New Zealand. Thanks for that,…
2 December, 2020 at 09:55 Leave a comment
27 Nov

I see a DIY Xmas tree bauble….

Other people see a pomegranate aka Punica granatum I reckon a spray can of red paint and a handful of glitter would be just the job. But let me tell…
27 November, 2020 at 09:00 1 Comment
26 Nov

A tale of two cities

On the left bank of the Rhine, we have Mainz – cathedral domes and church spires and stuff. On the other side of the river, we have Mainz-Kastel. Which gets…
26 November, 2020 at 09:00 Leave a comment
24 Nov

Balls…..

…to..for Xmas
24 November, 2020 at 09:00 1 Comment
24 Nov

Tripping…

..the Light (and dark) Fantastic.
24 November, 2020 at 09:00 Leave a comment