…is what you Americans (depending on which state/state of mind) reckon is good to carry openly when you go to Walmart or to your local church. Over here, it’s the…
This is Jürgen Hofmann’s 2013 Eselspfad white burgundy Prune the vines to focus on one shoot, manage the canopy to let the grapes breath freely and get good sunlight, cut…
This is the Eisberger. Take: 1 large ice cube a double shot of espresso Creamy milk, cold foamed to a soft-creamy texture Assemble. To be admired/enjoyed at kaffee kommune zwei.…
“Public viewing” is one of those Denglisch words that baffle native English speakers. (We think it means the laying out a corpse for mourners to traipse past…) Along with (the…
Special pseudo-edition of the Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung journalisted by VK and JW from across the way on the occasion of Lena’s girlfriend Jenny’s and one-time admirer Phillip’s wedding yesterday. Heaps…
I’m pleased to see that my young friend Lena has taken my advice and is about to change out of those high-heeled utilitarian sandals and into something more appropriate for…
He is, of course, facing the wrong way (typical Canon photog…) and blissfully unaware of the fate rapidly approching him from the rear….
At about the 19km mark of today’s ride, I was zipping up a fairly easy rise (about 4%) on ther bike path at a good clip (18km/h) and caught up…
An 18 metre neon sculpture in the underground passageway leading to the Arp Museum in (NQM) Rolandseck. Designed by Richard Meier (think Getty Center, perched above the 405 in LA),…
So. England’s gone Spain’s gone. Italy’s on the brink. Barbara and Giovanni at Potobello in Ober-Olm are understandably a bit nervous – lose to Uruguay tomorrow and they’re gone, too.…
At Jürgen Hofmann’s Vinotek open day the other week, you could taste wine (in small quantities, but no one was counting…) and buy a glass or 2 to enjoy with…
…when the Ingelheim to Oestrich car ferry appears to be registered in Liberia (or is it Panama) Oh. The ticket collector with the good suntan’s from Ghana? So that’s a…
…….tails you lose. With a name like van Leeuwen and a Twitter name of @avlmelbourne, it’s fair to assume that my friend Andrew is a likely to be a tad…
Same road, 500 metres apart. Just how hard is it to find a rubbish/trash bin around here? But, no – just sling your half-finished takeaway out of the window. And…
Jürgen Hofmann took over his Dad’s vineyard a way back and has developed it into one of the top addresses for wine in the region, if not nationally. His wife,…
…why don’t you Papaver and see the original? Appeared from nowhere (although we suspect that the seed came from Ms Frank the Potter’s garden) and started growing like Jack’s proverbial…
Nothing compared with what it used to be like during the Cold War (and for more than a few years after the Wall came down), but there’s still an American…
Ancient and modern in Jürgen Hofmann’s cellar in Appenheim
Rock on over to the Picolla Salumeria to buy some Finocchiona (that’s fennel salami to you… €2.09/100gm) and you get a free Italian lesson to go…
Gallusgasse/Weintorstrasse Another in a series of n
“I ordered it 3 years ago and I’ve been waiting all this time for your delivery driver…”
..said Mother Beech to Jimmy Sapling. “Mister Forester will come along, chop you down and pile you up with all the other naughty trees…”
….but when I asked the Holzturm for directions to the Rhine, they just said…….
Confirmed by a forecast temperature of 34 Celcius (that’s about 150 degrees in old money)
New place just down the road from the remnants of the city wall (which would still have been standing, had not the populace murdered Archbishop Arnold von Selenhofen in 1160…
…you can’t be too careful. Almost an ex-MDP-er
An embrasure (aka loophole, slit, arrowslit, balistraria, barbican, crenel) in the remants of the city wall on the Rheinstrasse.
“Citrus” is a restaurant/bar down by the Fort Malakoff Centre on the Rheinstrasse. (Years back when it had just opened, I was talking to a couple of our young sales…
Prince Michael of Salm-Salm has the coolest castle in the middle of (NQM) Wallhausen. He invited his customers to a wine tasting the other week and suggested to various local…
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