…scratch! No-one does it better than Falco – everybody’s favourite dog – here with his appropriately dressed owner.
…but it pours. A Määnzer Mädche gets her feet wet on the Ballplatz
At least he made the trains run on time* You really couldn’t make this up. Mainz station is served by a metro-like S-Bahn between Wiesbaden, Mainz, Frankfurt and beyond, 440…
The location at the corner of the Ludwigstrasse and the Weissliliengasse appears to be somewhat of an albatross around the neck of any restaurant that opens there. Both the Bagel…
Vertically-challenged young person unwillingly observing a non-existent moon.
aka “Lost” I kid you not – these birds were twisting the map around as if it was a car’s steering wheel. The only thing they DIDN’T do was turn…
The Bell-Towerman’s Keys is a sculpture by Hans Arp. It normally lives here in the concrete wasteland that is the forecourt of both the Rheingoldhalle and City Hall. There’s a…
I’d like to say that this is Jupiter in transit or something similarly cerebral, but I was at a vineyard hoolie without a tripod and the fairy lights looked better…
One of my sporting epiphanic experiences was watching a game of our local team, Mainz 05. Mainz had recently reappeared in the First Division and had a horde of middling-to-good…
Podlowski, Podolski , Müller and Unnamed – German national football team merchandising victims at the team’s training session at Mainz 05’s stadium last week.
So when’s the last time YOU saw a haystack…?
Harvest aftermath
Mainz has around 200,000 inhabitants. 20,000 of them turned up at the Coface Arena to watch the German national football team training for their friendly match against Paraguay on Wednesday…
This engraving on the cathedral says that we’re 86.49m above sea level. If we’re that high up, how come the city gets flooded with monotonous regularity? Like here Or here
They’re selling ostrich eggs on the market. Either that, or I was using my 10mm lens again without noticing….
The Greens are a well-meaning bunch, but they lose the plot too often to be taken seriously. Their most recent brain fart idea is for a compulsory (in finest Denglish)…
Or….. “Oi! Who stole my steering wheel?!” When I moved to Germany back in the 70s, I drove over in a red 1968 MGB. Right hand drive which poses immediate…
Pure coincidence that Rod Stewart’s exquisite album came out in 1971. But this picture really DOES tell a story. There are 3 butchers’ vans in a row at the Mainz…
The recent plague of babies population explosion around here has left us with a surfeit of storks (I have it on v. good authority that that’s the collective noun.) which…
..of Mary Whitehouse, what filthy mind designed that lighthouse” Mary Whitehouse was a firebrand protectress of public morals in Britain in the 1960s and 70s – Sisyphus springs to mind……
For 20-odd years, Senfkorn (“Mustard Seed – here’s the parable)has been a meeting point for folks with alcohol or psychological problems, where they could feel secure among their peer and…
A DHL delivery van brightens up an early morning Mainz, recovering after a good summer storm thumping yesterday afternoon. I’ve experienced some good storms around here, but this was closer…
This Riesling certainly packs a punch! 135% alcohol! They’re normally between 13% and 14%. They forgot the decimal point, you say? Oh…..
Heat waves have differing intensities depending on where you live, it appears. I was in the UK over the weekend and – in a land where anything warmer than 25°C…
This is in INCHES. What do you mean “You turned the ruler the wrong way for the top section plans and forgot that the bottom section is in centimetres” So…
Then we shall begin. An invitation to rest a while at Dicke Lilli’s in the Gaustrasse. Nice enough place, but really naff coffee and full of yapping wimmin. I kept…
Not sure which one of the two is of the original series – this (found behind the Gartenfeldplatz) or this. Local authorities abound on this issue….
There are these ones, of course, but I’m trying to avoid brutal modernism as much as I can these days… Used to be gas, now electric bulbs, LEDs can’t be…
You’ll find insect hotels like this all over the place – the German Friends of the Earth organization has them on their website as a DIY kitset for €40. This…
Grasshopper, actually. They grow them big around here – this one was the size of a small dog. I kept out of the way in case it mistook me for…
The SPD – Germany’s left-ish opposition party – has a discussion forum set up on the Schillerplatz. The slogan is a play on words – “Gute Aussichten für 2013” can…
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