Mixed salad greens (and oranges…) at the market
Michael Kinzer as Richard III said Andreas Koch, the director in his introduction to Zettel’s Theater‘s superb performance of Richard III last Friday at the Geromont vineyard in Oestrich-Winkel. “But…
Mainz’s very own industrial monument, the Alte Ziegelei in Bretzenheim. A field kiln* was established close to a clay quarry in the fields outside Bretzenheim in the late 19th C…
“King of the Castle” to you. Appears to live here….
…loutish behaviour and enormous quantities of rubbish. For some people, at least. Namely those who risk blindness by drinking this stuff…
…rope…er….photos. Flicking through one of the local free papers the other week…..HANG ON A SEC……that’s my picture from the Burgunder Markt last year. Called up the publisher (“Oh, we got…
The “Drei-Mädchen” fountain on the Ballplatz, suffering from severe dehydration. The reason: No money. As usual. Mainz has enormous debts – close to €1bn – and it costs €220,000 annually…
can-can…
Detail in the cloisters of St Stephans church. Here’s the true story (I’m in the process of picking up some work, translating audio book texts. The one about Mainz STILL…
Mainly due to some fairly sturdy fencing around them to keep marauding scavengers at bay. (Wire cutters would work, but they’re electrified. O know…..)
Didn’t know that Marc Chagall was a drinking man, but why else would he smuggle a serving wench carrying 2 decent sized glasses of ale into one of his windows…
Brew kettle at the Goldener Engel micro-brewery in Ingelheim
Diane from Etlaynta (middle) and her kid sister Denise* from Lon Gisland (right) with a visitor from Hawkes Bay (left) descended on Mainz last weekend as part of a trip…
Another excuse to wonder at the Chagall stained glass windows in the St Stephans church at the top of the Gaustrasse
Flash new sign at our entrance to the village.
..trees for the wood. Something like that anyway. Mainz’s ligneous version of Stonehenge in the kiddy playground at the Goetheplatz
No need to throw the toys out of the pram/tear off your Deutschland flag in a fit of pique. They didn’t play THAT badly – twee:een is twee:een in anyone’s…
And it came to pass that THE LORD did appear before the HIGH PRIEST of the Melanchthonkirche in the Schlesische Viertel of the City of Mayence and SPAKE unto him…
..in the Leichhof.
Talk about ungrateful! Provide a family of blackbirds food and lodging (they even recycled one of my tea bags from the compost heap for the nest…) in our clipped box…
Italy vs Spain tonight in the EM 2012. BTW. Did I mention that Germany thrashed ..er ..scraped home against Portugal yesterday? Little Miss Einstein certainly wouldn’t have..
Here’s a good story. True one, too. Immediately following the Armistice that ended the first world war in 1918, allied troops occupied the western bank of the Rhine and established…
So I bought some watercolours to liven it all up a bit Augustinerstrasse in the Altstadt
Even the manhole covers get a quick once-over…
Horrendousness at the local plant megastore
Bought a sketchpad and some pencils. Not bad for a first effort, eh?
When our best friends/surrogate parents Isla and Bill visited us in Germany, Bill couldn’t get over how DEAD German villages were/still are around mid-day. We’d drive through a village and…
..what manner of bird be this? I was getting worried. Wasn’t feeling too hot on that particular day and I thought it might be a vulture with ESP. Wrote my…
..a boy was playing cricket The ball ran up his… The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of…
…it does. Gargoyle in the Dagobertstrasse.
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