“It’s absolutely NONE of your business how often we……! Well I never! I can’t believe you asked me that question, young man!” Husband: (sotto voce): “Ei, mer gehe uff’m Meenzer…
Today being Ascension Day, Chagall’s Archangel whatshisname appears to be heading in the wrong direction. Whatever. Maybe he’s on his way to join us for a beer in Bavaria. His…
Kupferbergterasse down to the Emmerich-Josef-Strasse. And back up again.
Elke Wolf is a jeweler in Mainz-Kastel – which contrary to its name – is a suburb of Wiesbaden. (Don’t ask, OK? Just don’t ask…) Atelier exhibition today and –…
I met Andrew van (“with a small “v”) Leeuwen – surrounded by a bevy of lovelies , one of whom turned out be his sweet wife Anne – on the…
…I’ve got the Pleurotus eryngii” Aka king trumpet mushroom, French horn mushroom, king oyster mushroom, king brown mushroom, boletus of the steppes, trumpet royale (What he’s really going to do…
My first thunderstorm in Germany was quite an experience. I’d been used to a) New Zealand where you get 4 seasons in one day b) the UK where it drizzles…
Wilhelm Holzamer, novelist, librarian to Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse, Paris correspondent for a number of German newspapers, Nieder-Olmer gets his own monument.
I don’t much care for them, either. Nor am I particularly fond of the wind farms that sprout up faster than you can blink. But if we want to reduce…
The Alberton rose says so.
Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune II’s new location in the Breidenbacherstrasse
Even if it *is* a genetically modified carrot-clover hybrid
The month of May has been a bit dodgy. April was stupidly warm, with only a few days below 20C. May turned out to be April a month late. And…
…nichts los. Moos (moss) – apart from Bryophyta above – derives an alternative meaning from a Yiddish word for money. So the idiom translates roughly to..
…or by crook
…eggsactly….
…you can’t afford it. Models of Vitra chairs (like this one) start at €100….
Choice blossom, even choicer seed pods
Pick your own pansies. Katrin Eder, responsible for environment, energy and transport in Mainz, comes up with some good ideas. Last year, they planted veges instead of the ubiquitous bedding…
And then there are the ubiquitous hospital romance novelettes, Dr. Norden being merely one in a field of n+1, but with 850 titles and sales figures of 180 million, they…
If you read these rags, you’ll be exposed to some interesting [sic] “stuff”: To whit: Every celebrity who’s married is having it off with another celebrity. Every celebrity who isn’t…
…the yellow Avanacluias
From Ethiopia, even. But from Togo?
..er..asphalt instruments?
Local body electioneering in full swing around these parts, with Germany’s Most Wanted party political posters attached to the majority of immovable objects. Can’t say that I’l be voting for…
It works like this. You rock over to Klaus and Isabell Gres’s vineyard restaurant for snack and a glass of wine and no sooner have you ordered, but Klaus turns…
Decades ago in a small restaurant in Albufeira, I asked the waiter what the herb was that I didn’t recognise in the dish. “Oh” he said “that’s Portuguese parsley” I…
….but the prices are sometimes eye-watering…
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