Some bugger is running around, defacing manpersonhole covers with graffiti, declaring his everlasting PDAs for Lena I thought that was my job…..
We famous people know what it’s like, right? You’re out and about, hidden behind the RayBan Wayfarers, and people recognise you and then pretend NOT to recognise you. We just…
…or not to spray, that is the question. Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Chemicals, Or to put up with bits of…
This morning, I did my Good Samurai act in saving Cynthia, Judy and Carol (all originally from New Jersey, but now spread between there, Baltimore and Texas) from a fate…
….my dear Watson Furred-up (and otherwise stuffed) heating elements on display at an electrician in the Neustadt
The hoolie on the Gartenfeldplatz a few weeks back was really quite excellent. And not only for N’Eis’s ices. Café Prego is a 1968 10hp Piaggio Ape 400, fitted out…
It was my birthday a couple of days back. This turned up outside the house the following day. Better late than never, I suppose. (They could have left the keys…
When you’re 1000 or so years old, things can start getting a bit shonky. Not talking of personal experience, of course, but Mainz cathedral is a bit like the Golden…
As were my legs 2/3 the way up the steps from Walpodenstrasse to Terrassenstrasse. AND carrying the bike. Bloody hell, it’s a climb. And it’s not as if we’re getting…
The Nagelsäule, Dom and various green bits. Trees, I think.
It’s a sad commentary on the times that orchardists are having to fence off their groves and risk being beaten up (happened the other week) if they challenge someone stripping…
Drais is a village with a fair bit of history. Settlements dating back to the Celts and the late Iron Age (850–450 B.C.E.). Pretty much par for the course around…
Non, le Gare de Mayence. Cornrowed lavender at the main station
…intentionally blurred images, I held the camera (well, iPhone….) against the car window as Ms jb thrashed along the Autobahn at death-defying speeds. His last major sale was $34m for…
This figure is a constant in Mainz, appearing in expected and unexpected locations. This flanking the steps leading up from Walpodenstrasse to the Terrassenstrasse She’s also been featured frequently at…
€4/$5 worth from N’Eis on the Gartenfeldplatz. Can you be a regular after just being there once? I think so…..
“Well, dear, it’s either the 10mm lens that that nice man’s using or the fact that you’ve been eating too much icecream from N’Eis, the new icecream parlour on the…
..to go to McDonalds or its ilk, but seeing what they’re doing in Mainz gets them a gold star. For sure. See the place at the back, nestled among the…
….that’s not repeatable in polite company i.e. here, but it always springs to mind when I see a canoe. Two jokes, actually. I thought of him when I was cruising…
…our daily Fragaria vesca. Aka wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, European strawberry, or fraises des bois. Some plants just TURNED UP unannounced in the flower/herb bed next to the…
…if you’re a Rent-a-Bike. You hang around all day, waiting for someone to pay their €0.50 for 30 minutes and take you for a ride somewhere through Mainz and then…
The local city monthly “Der Mainzer” runs a monthly photo competition sponsored by Saturn, a big box consumer electronics outfit. Did quite well a couple of years back with this…
Looking at the goldsmith across the road from Kaffeekommunezwei, I was quietly wishing that my Italian was a bit better. Like” what’s a “Heib”? “Che cosa è una Heib?” I thought.…
“Cleanliness is next to godliness” say (supposedly) ancient Hebrew writings. Highly applicable to making good espresso. When you’ve just blasted (almost) boiling water at high pressure through finely ground coffee…
I stumbled over this very tired looking steamroller at the side of the road in Hechtsheim. Made in the late 1930’s by Henschel for Heinrich Zinggreber of Eschwege, a company…
Markus Wehrle (pictured) and Kai Tietze (with a little help from their friends) have turned a direly neglected and unbelievably scruffy building in the Gaustrasse into “Lönneberga“, a “café for…
Mere metres from the spot where we rendezvoused with Bro Paul last year in August, I stumbled over (nothing broken, but thanks for asking…) this rubbish bin/trash can in Bad-Kreuznach’s…
Those altostratus-cirro-cumulonimbi certainly make the picture, don’t you think…?
200m before the turn-off and we’re STILL going so fast (near-relatavistic…) that I’m experiencing Doppler shift. I’ll drive next time…….
…and see us sometime. Cartier-Bresson stuff – no tweaking and certainly no pot of red paint to brighten things up.
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