…except bad legislation” Kinky Friedman, the original “Texas Jewboy”, musician, author, politician (ran for Governor in Texas in 2006 – got 13% in a 6 candidate race – and running…
This is like walking through a crowd and hearing snatches of conversation. This graffiti took me straight back to a 30 year old lyric Sort of.
Frank Jung learned potting as a apprentice production thrower in a factory in Höhr-Grenzhausen, one of the centres of ceramics in Germany, First, you do menial tasks (clean up after…
But somewhere else, if you don’t mind… “Smokers don’t die of cancer – they freeze to death in front of the pub” Seen at the Bürgerhof in Gonsenheim
Gonsenheim’s one of the flasher suburbs of Mainz – wide main drag lined with a significant number of fine older buildings (well, not REALLY old..) and good shops, some elegant…
..would smell as rusty. Detail on the Maler Becker school wall in Gonsenheim.
An Avanacluia officinalis struggling against the weather.
Stunningly modern new organ at St Stephans, Windows by Chagall.
Anzac Day occurs on 25 April. It commemorates all New Zealanders killed in war and also honours returned servicemen and women. The date itself marks the anniversary of the landing of New…
If there’s one football (soccer to you…) team that polarises in Germany, it’s Bayern Munich. Hugely successful (which in itself generates a huge following – who wants to go through…
Through accidents of birth and abduction, resulting in forced emigration at an early age, I have 2 passports. The UK side of the family dates back to the 1600s, so…
It took the council a while (and they’ve probably forgotten whose idea it was in the first place anyway), but they’ve certainly got cracking in the beautification department, with just…
I hadn’t said a word. Ms jb watched me taking the photo and said “I know how your mind works. You are just plain disgusting….” Right she is….
“Lautstark” in the Augustinerstrasse in the Altstadt is pretty much the last of a dying breed of specialist record stores. Rockpile‘s gone and if I’m honest, Lautstark isn’t quite in…
Asparagus is traditionally – around here anyway – the harbinger of spring, Easter/Ēostre and other pagan rites. 2013 didn’t quite get things right – Easter/Ēostre was early, spring was late…
It’s was either very localised or those pesky farmers are turbocharging their asparagus fields again….. (Go on! Ask me about the pyramid…)
The clue to yesterday’s puzzle. Needless to say, I’m still none the wiser….
Breidenbacherstrasse. The answer tomorrow…..
Finally! Temperatures up in the 20s, spring bulbs ablossoming, bees abuzzing and the first bike ride of the season. And all this just minutes before the summer solstice….
The Gautor Apotheke, a pharmacy in the shadow of the Gautor at the top of the Gaustrasse, closed its doors at the end of 2011 after 70 years in business.…
It snowed last week. We’re only DAYS away from the summer solstice and it’s SNOWING? Paul at the Kaffee Kommune 2 tries to get us in the mood with bunches…
The Eisgrubschule celebrates its new sports facility in style. Here’s the history: https://mainzdailyphoto.com/2007/10/16/die-eisgrub-244/
Signora Anna (of the hair with chameleon genes and either from Nackenheim or Palermo) spied us on the market the other day: “I no see you at Easter – wait…
..and all I got was this lousy postcard. Which I can’t read….
At the very excellent Shakespeare & So in the Gaustrasse
….er….Ice on a cold Saab roof.
Madame Pompom is a new shop in the Johannisstrasse run by Anna-Claire Müller, the daughter of the folks who own Moguntia Kaffeerösterei. Can’t seriously imagine becoming a regular … Madame…
I can’t recall the last time I voluntarily drank filter coffee, but Paul at Kaffeekommune Zwei (@kaffeekommune, #kk2) in the Gaustrasse extracted a promise from me that I’d at least…
This is Saturday morning at Metzgerei Schmidt in the Klarastrasse. Germans not being renowned for their queuing culture (now, THERE’s an oxymoron if there ever was one…), a typical conversation…
The only buds I’ve seen recently are on this carved door in the Augustinerstrasse….
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