Mainz 05. Home game. Park the car in Bretzenheim Walk through the fields.
“Why’s that man lying down on the ground…?” “He’s having a heart attack, dear. Leave him alone – he’ll be dead in a minute…” Gonso market.
The Maler Becker school in Gonso has bike racks. AND scooter racks. Thinks: If they’re the IN THING, I must investigate
Aftershock in Nepal, reported by the Allgemeine Zeitung, a gift and “The entire film in 5 seconds”, a graphic depiction of the decisive moments of 150 films. Seen at Café…
Our neat young neighbours, Annika and Andi, turned up the other week with Thekla, the sweetest of babies. Not wishing to be outdone, the Asio otus pair nesting in their…
Chalk on slate. Online shop. Talk about diametrically opposed….
Aspiring firefighters in Mombach. (Attending to a parched park…)
The consequences of neglecting to stick a “No Junk Mail” sign on your mailbox
Er …”Eye, Captain” Don’t see many artificial eye artisans these days, but they still exist. In fact (and this really IS a true story…), Dave, a guy I used to…
Mainz is fairly well set up for public transport. You can take a 51 tram in Hechtsheim, thrash down the middle of the Rheinhessenstrasse to the main station and then…
I had no idea of the time…” Neither does the Gasthaus zum Bürgerhof in Gonso…
….celebrates its 1st birthday in its new location in the Breidenbacherstrasse and serves IPA to mark the occasion, you know why it’s your favourite espresso bar/ (Prefer the espresso –…
Who’s there? Lilac. Lilac who? Lilac anything if someone asks your age
Parked outside Heinrich’s Die Wirtschaft up around the Kästrich. If you’ve done the Coast to Coast even once, you can be rightfully proud of yourself. It’s 243km from the West…
Anemones from a different perspective
You’re driving down the Emmerich-Josef-Strasse in Mainz. These signs say: If you turn left into Walpodenstrasse, you’ll hit a dead end. (True) You can’t turn right into Breidenbacherstrasse (one way)…
Blue skies. Chestnut tree. Answers on a €500 bill, please. Solution after the break ———————————————————————————————————— As far as I’m concerned… A draft wheat beer A Brezel A Weisswurst with sweet…
Which is – I suppose – how the pansy got its German name: little stepmother (Steifmütterchen) I kid you not. Look it up if you don’t belive me…
Two Euros and 50 bloody cents to take your bike across the Rhein at Ingelheim Highway..er…fluvial robbery. At least Dick Turpin wore a mask…
Feridun Zaimoglu is a 50 year old German author of Turkish heritage and the recipient of the 2015 Mainzer Stadtschreiber literature prize. Which is €12,500 donated by the city of…
..er..POPPY syndrome. If you know New Zealand, you’ll know the Tall Poppy Syndrome. You can be successful. Just don’t get TOO successful. If you do, the media and vox populi…
The reason that Klein-Winternheim has mass plantings of daffodils on the major access routes is because my late cousin Graham (died 2 years ago in his early 60s and it…
…to Kita (pre-school) on Tuesday, forget it. First of all, you wouldn’t have got there, all major thoroughfares being blocked by striking workers (making such a din that even I…
Show me another kiddies’ playground that backs onto a medieval city wall and I’ll send you a signed 10c coin. Only in Mainz…
Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the Handkäs… Handkäse – literally “hand cheese”, traditionally formed by hand – is a sour milk cheese – a cheese that has been curdled…
…and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me Serious seeds at the Oppenheim Garden Market yesterday
Some strange stuff turns up at our place, vaguely reminiscent of familiar blossoms, but “they’re new” and “not really that expensive..” Compared with a Ferrari, that is…
…… Paul and Christina frantically refer to “Espresso Making 101”. “It says here “Grind the coffee beans”. Do you remember how we used to do that? Sorry jb – this…
The occupancy rate of these tables will increase in direct proportion to the ambient temperature. Bro Paul will doubtless provide us with the formula….
….edible. Mesclun (I’ve seen it written as “Mescalin”…..that woke me up…) with edible blossoms at Stein’s Herbs in Gonso
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