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Category Archive: Mainz

23 Apr

Hi Drangea – #1516

Better than Ho Tensis, anyway…
23 April, 2012 at 13:00 1 Comment
22 Apr

Gatekeepers – #1515

Good works at work in Klein-Winternheim. Local folk get together to organise a flea market in the cycle club’s winter quarters with the proceeds (€5k this time around) going to…
22 April, 2012 at 09:00 1 Comment
21 Apr

Are you calling me a (chande)lier? #1514

Genteel decay at the Arp Museum’s excellent Interieur 253 café-restaurant.
21 April, 2012 at 19:54 1 Comment
20 Apr

“What’s the Teutonic weather like this morning?”…- #1513

…inquired a convalescing Warrior Cyclist. “Not too bad” said the picture in considerably fewer than 1000 words.  
20 April, 2012 at 08:51 1 Comment
19 Apr

Famous son – #1512

Jochen Rindt, the Mainz-born racing driver who drove under an Austrian racing licence, would have been 70 yesterday. The city’s finally woken up to the fact that they should do…
19 April, 2012 at 19:58 2 Comments
13 Nov

Kultcha – #1511

The State Theatre touting its wares on the market the other week. Convinced us enough to buy tickets for “Clybourne Park” next month…
13 November, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
12 Nov

Cat’s cradle – #1510

Kultcha with a capital “K” Answers (as usual) on a €100 note. Solution tomorrow.
12 November, 2011 at 08:00 Leave a comment
11 Nov

Seeing double – #1509

An obvious risk of sampling the produce at the Burgundermarkt is that your senses get totally out of whack and everything becomes blurred and inexplicably multiplies. I’m sure we started…
11 November, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
10 Nov

About €10 worth…- #1508

“Worth”, of course, then needs a new definition “The level at which someone or something deserves to be valued or rated” Not.
10 November, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
09 Nov

Burgundermarkt rewired – #1507

Snails. Chablis €6 Excellent
9 November, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
08 Nov

The roving reporteress – #1506

The annual exhibition of Mme Carambolage‘s (Annemarie Kijaszek)and Britta Jung’s work at the restored tithe barn in Stadecken-Elsheim. Lord Mayor made a speech (seemed a trifle miffed at the lack…
8 November, 2011 at 08:00 Leave a comment
07 Nov

Looks like work…. – #1505

Unless you want to strip the bark to build a canoe, birch trees are a pain in the bum. Their roots go everywhere, you can’t underplant them particularly successfully and…
7 November, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
06 Nov

Oh deer – #1504

Looks like hunting season has been opened on my wallet…. Essential stuff (so I’m told…) at the market
6 November, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
05 Nov

Houdini – #1503

“Whodunnit”, more likely. Now, where did I leave my bike…..?
5 November, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
04 Nov

Child labour – #1502

The difference between the New World and the Old World. At one of those restaurants in Concord, NH where you’re navigated to your table by a young flossy who is…
4 November, 2011 at 08:00 4 Comments
03 Nov

The Messiah – #1501

The Boeing engineers working on the prototype 747 nicknamed it “The Messiah”. Virtually everyone who entered the massive hull said “JESUS CHRIST!”. I can verify that – experienced one on…
3 November, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
30 Oct

If you have to lose to someone… – #1497

….I guess it might as well be Werder Bremen. Burgundy market in Mainz yesterday and today with one of our twin towns, Dijon. The usual champagne/truffle/wine/paté/escargots gluttony, brightened by this…
30 October, 2011 at 08:00 4 Comments
29 Oct

He came in …… – #1496

…through the bathroom window wall. Eberhard Linke’s “Mann vom Castrum”, (so THAT’s where Darth Vader got his wardrobe ideas…) referencing Castrum Mogantiacum, the Roman stronghold dating back to 13 BC…
29 October, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
28 Oct

Old meets new – #1495

Fort Stahlberg,  a defensive tower built in the mid-19th century as part of the fortifications protecting Mainz from the marauding Huns …er …French and other sundry ratbags, has recently been…
28 October, 2011 at 08:00 2 Comments
27 Oct

Jack Frost? – #1494

Not a sign of him, as evidenced by this fine display of Avanacluias on the market
27 October, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
24 Oct

Go fly a kite – #1491

Supplementary decorative detail on the Markthäuser
24 October, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
23 Oct

Autumnal – #1490

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22 Oct

Shades of blue – #1489

Motorway railing in Laubenheim
22 October, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
21 Oct

Prepare to repell brooders – #1488

(You have to have kept poultry to get that one…) Everyone’s favourite chook on the market.
21 October, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
20 Oct

Mainz Daily Sketch – #1487

Competition on the market the other day. Shutter speed of somewhere close to 300 seconds….
20 October, 2011 at 08:00 4 Comments
19 Oct

The Teutonic Titanic – #1486

Apart from the fact that iceberg has mold on it and looks suspiciously like Hessen on the opposite bank of the Rhine from Weisenau and neither Winslett nor DiCaprio were…
19 October, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
18 Oct

Near miss – #1485

A court in Kassel  declared last week that when Frankfurt airport’s 4th runway goes into operation at the end of the month, there are to be no flights between 23:00…
18 October, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
17 Oct

“And this is the appendix…” – #1484

Medical students in the making at the Gutenberg Museum’s print shop.
17 October, 2011 at 08:00 2 Comments
16 Oct

Small change – #1483

Detail on the Heunensäule on the Domplatz
16 October, 2011 at 08:00 Leave a comment
15 Oct

Heimat – #1482

The German language has some heroically long words  – Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, for example. It also has some that are exquisite in their succinctness and challenging in their resistance to simple translation…
15 October, 2011 at 08:00 4 Comments
14 Oct

Just don’t ask, OK…? – #1481

I THINK that this is an empty icecream container. HOPING, anyway. Too many doctors’ practices in the vicinity to be sure, though…..
14 October, 2011 at 08:00 4 Comments