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01 Jan

Monthly Theme Day – Photo of the Year 2012 #1764

Seriously, what can beat this? A summer’s day out on the bike and not imagining in my WILDEST DREAMS that Mainz 05, our local team, would end the year at…
1 January, 2013 at 00:01 8 Comments
31 Dec

New Years Resolutions II #1763

You’re not meant to write them down! Pauline at Sonntagskind
31 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
30 Dec

New Years Resolutions #1762

I’m stuck. Gave up smoking years ago, my bmi’s bordering on “underweight” and if you think I’m going to do without the IPA’s from the Maine Brewing Company et al…
30 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
29 Dec

Not being nasty or anything….#1761

…but this is just so typically Mainz. Perennially bankrupt ( Markus Würz, my young historian friend, tells me that it’s been that way since the Middle Ages…) and fairly clueless.…
29 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
28 Dec

I’m going….#1760

..to give them the benefit of the doubt. I’m going to say that their handwriting is worse than mine and that the salami they’re selling on the Christmas market doesn’t…
28 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
27 Dec

This would never happen in Hollywood.. #1759

Well, it never RAINS there, for a start, but even if anyone DARED to step on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they’d have someone out there with…
27 December, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment
26 Dec

Can’t have Christmas…#1758

…without cherubims (just learned – “cherabim” is already the plural) and seraphims… Tastefully Meenzerisch
26 December, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment
25 Dec

It’s early yet…#1757

…the “Nacht” bit comes later. Have a good one. And be NICE to each other….
25 December, 2012 at 09:00 1 Comment
23 Dec

Here we go round…#1755

Why does it remind me of this?
23 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
22 Dec

Get your skates on #1754

Not that we have constant Arctic-level temperatures here, but there’s a plethora of ice-skating rinks that spring up at around this time of year and none more central than the…
22 December, 2012 at 13:00 2 Comments
21 Dec

My friend Scrooge and I…. #1753

…couldn’t agree more. Oh. “FOLK….” As in folk songs. So that’s OK, then….
21 December, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment
20 Dec

Lest we forget #1752

3 down, 1 to go……
20 December, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment
18 Dec

Just deserts #1750

Having been behaving myself (by my standards anyway) recently, I got taken out for dinner to the Goldenen Engel in Flonheim the other night. Small restaurant in a renovated house…
18 December, 2012 at 11:30 1 Comment
17 Dec

Things are looking up – #1749

The 2012 Craftsmens Guild Christmas Market in the atrium of the Chamber of Trade building. (Is it REALLY 5 years since I last visited…?
17 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
16 Dec

Look where……#1748

genealogy research takes you. The new (1881) Jewish cemetery in Mainz-Zahlbach.
16 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
15 Dec

We all know where this is going…#1747

And then there two…….
15 December, 2012 at 13:00 3 Comments
14 Dec

Biscoitos de Natal #1746

Bribery or appreciation? Probably the latter. One of Ms. jb’s tenants (a Portuguese family) at the Vertical Village that she manages in Gonsenheim turns up with a plate, chock-full of…
14 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
13 Dec

Virtual teams #1745

I’ve been involved professionally in virtual teams (tends to come with the territory when you work for a multinational corporate group…), but none have been as enjoyable as the one…
13 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
12 Dec

“Tea for two…#1744

…and two for tea…er…coffee. Ms jb and CMG discussing clothes (that’s all they ever do…) at Caffee Moguntia’s TSOW the other day. On occasions like this, I pay and stand…
12 December, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment
11 Dec

“Meet the new boss… #1743

…..same as different to the old boss” The ‘Oo Dominic Müller has taken over the day-to-day running of Caffee Moguntia from his mother Brigitte Müller-Dildei and her partner, Karl-Josef Schwarz,…
11 December, 2012 at 13:00 5 Comments
10 Dec

Kaaaft Zuchplakettcher! #1742

“Get your carnival parade badge here!!! Carneval’s not Carneval if you don’t wear a parade (Zug – dialect: Zuch) badge (Plakette – dialect: Plakettcher) and the various carnival clubs are…
10 December, 2012 at 13:00 2 Comments
09 Dec

On reflection…. #1741

..if I liked the style, I wouldn’t like the colour….
9 December, 2012 at 13:00 2 Comments
08 Dec

You’d be nuts… #174o

…to spend €10/$13 a kilo on walnuts. Even if they do come from France. Seen in a greengrocers in Gonsenheim, one of Mainz’s flasher suburbs
8 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
07 Dec

“Yay! Icecream” #1739

Said the kiddy at the Saturday market in Gonsenheim. At a rough guess: fresh cheese with dried tomatoes, curry and spinach. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. Which…
7 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
06 Dec

“If you ever run out of pictures…#1738

…you can always come around here” said Uli Zawar of Sonntagskind fame. Daughter Pauline (“Paulinchen” in familyspeak) for example.
6 December, 2012 at 13:00 3 Comments
05 Dec

And the City Council said….#1737

…”Let there be light,” and there was light. And the Council saw that the light was good, and the populace saw that the light was good and said “Let’s get…
5 December, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment
04 Dec

Sammeltassen #1736

Every Roman Catholic girl of …ahem.. a certain age knows what these are. Sammeltassen. Ornately decorated ornamental cup, saucer and plates given as gifts on your first communion. Just the…
4 December, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
02 Dec

Adventurous #1734

Ingredients: Mainz’s Bike Czar, Bernd Meyer-Zawar 1 bicycle rim (surplus to requirements) 4 candles Advent Abracadabra (or “simsalabim”, as they say around here), a spray can of red paint and…
2 December, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment
01 Dec

Monthly Theme Day – December 2012 – My street #1733

I do take this privacy stuff quite seriously and I’ve asked jb to respect my concerns in that matter and not divulge my name. I’m just a regular street really…
1 December, 2012 at 13:00 7 Comments
30 Nov

NKOTB @ TSOW #1732

“Vanessa. With 2 S’s” “And 2 A’s” I said. “Well, yeeeeeess…..” Vanessa’s the latest addition to Dominic’s harem staff at Caffee Moguntia’s HV Citroen mobile cafe (aka the Tin Shed…
30 November, 2012 at 13:00 Leave a comment
29 Nov

Press here #1731

Mainz is a funny place. State capital, 200+k population, 2 newspapers, but still with a small-town atmosphere. The papers will sometimes pick up on a story and worry it to…
29 November, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment