Germans are world champions in recycling. Plastic and paper are picked up for free every 2 weeks, you get a rebate on your compost bin and 13 collections of organic…
Either real ones (organic, of course…) coloured with natural dyes. Or something like this.
I’ve always associated canaries with feathers and coalmines. Definitely not with Erisymum. Maybe someone has an explanation. In the meantime, here’s a true story: My uncle John (Group Captain, RAF…
I have no idea how long the folk opposite the pharmacy in Klein-Winternheim have been reading the Allgemeine Zeitung, but from the detritus that’s attached itself to the newspaper tube,…
I can’t help it, but when I saw this sign, I was immediately transported back to to 1972 and Chuck Berry’s ” sophomoric, double-entendre-laden ode to ….ahem…” as one critic…
….but this, I believe, is Old Man’s Beard, currently the only distraction from an almost interminable greyness. And while we’re on the topic, I’ve discovered a new euphemism. No longer…
Eostre bunnies all set up for the weekend. I do enjoy a good old pagan festival….
Caffea Moguntia Caffee Monguntia Moguntia Kaffeerösterei changes its name so often, I have difficulty keeping up. The same with their recent intern Svenya, pictured here. If we hadn’t drifted by…
in the big city. Kapuzinerstrasse.
Not really my tasse de thé as one says around here, but I’m sure this delightful example of decadence (Kevlar with real diamonds, I’m told…) will just fly off the…
I did what I could to keep my young friend Lena on the tracks, but to no avail. Here she is, barely 26, drinking, smoking, studying LAW, of all things…
Rocked on down to Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune Zwei (which opened during my sabbatical) in the Gaustrasse today. Just a STUNNING double espresso – so much intense flavour and not a…
It also melts. Very slowly
Sod this for a game of soldiers – first day back from vacation, middle of March, forsythia’s normally blossoming and I’m shovelling WET SNOW? It’s time I left again…
This place is terrific. Run by Nicola Cantrick, (r) formerly at the Suter Gallery Cafe (who reckoned that Ms jb looked “too exotic for Nelson”) and baristeuse Sandy di Scianni…
Monsignor Klaus Mayer, my luncheon companion of the other day, is having his 90th birthday celebrated for him in style with a concert in his honour in the Stephanskirche this…
All yours! I’m taking Kate‘s lead and sodding off to sunnier climes for a bit. Probably breaking all sorts of rules. Whatever.
is worth a….no, better not go there….. Seraphic avian feeding at the Gutenberg Museum
A cherub (or is it a seraph…?) serenading from a safe height at the Gutenberg Museum
The Fischergasse – as the name indicates – was in days gone by the centre of all things piscatorial in Mainz, in the same way that the Eisenturm marked the…
Paul Bonna and Sebastian Lösch ran a pop-up cafe in the Gaustrasse for 5 weeks at about this time last year and called it Kaffeekommune Eins. Hardcore espresso-based drinks by…
The local (low-tech..) version of BookCrossing, which involves Taking a book you’ve finished reading to the tram stop in Bretzenheim Putting it in the glass=fronted (and backed) cabinet Choosing one…
..you’ll be following me with great haste to the nearest emergency exit to avoid this bloody Karneval business….
Rocked on up to “La Gallerie” the other day, a very fine Italian restaurant in the Gaustrasse shadowed by St Stephan’s church and nodded to the folks at the adjoining…
…you too can be the epitome of sartorial elegance for the Rosenmontag parade on …er…. Montag.
Lena and I have been an item for close to 20 years, which is when she moved in across the road with her parents and limpeted herself to me almost…
….you’re likely to lose in one of these pokie/one-armed bandit dens of iniquity. What pokie/one-armed bandit dens of iniquity?
I’m sorry – I can’t think of even one… Never mind. It’s happening as we speak, monopolising the newspapers and airwaves. Only another 8 days…
…(half) timbers. Do you REALLY think that these glass and concrete edifices are going to be around in 700 years like timber-framed houses with wattle and daub panels? No, me…
The aerial walkway linking Rainer Schell‘s 1961 museum with the 2000 extension
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