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Category Archive: Mainz

13 Oct

Powerless – #1480

I find myself quite powerless to stop taking photographs of wind turbines on wind-less mornings…  
13 October, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
12 Oct

Stairway to heaven – #1479

Shadowy stuff at the motorway underpass in Laubenheim
12 October, 2011 at 08:00 4 Comments
11 Oct

I think I’ll have the the jerrycan…. #1478

Talk about a quantity discount! A glass will knock you back €0.80. A litre costs €1.10. No contest!
11 October, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
10 Oct

Getting the lowdown – #1477

If there are any farmers out there in Droughtland reading this, just send me a couple of business class tickets and we’ll be over in a flash to bring you…
10 October, 2011 at 08:00 4 Comments
09 Oct

What a bind – #1476

I’m sure she could do this blindfolded… zip, zap, zip and it’s done.
9 October, 2011 at 08:00 2 Comments
08 Oct

Spectiggerlar – #1475

Always remind me of Winnie-the-Pooh’s “Tigger”. Either that or seaside rock
8 October, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
07 Oct

Drip….. – #1474

….catcher. At €35 a litre, you’d be silly to let any go to waste..
7 October, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
06 Oct

New! – #1473

A couple of new stands on the market – one lurking next to Cafe Moguntia selling delicate cake-type thingies and an outfit just over the way selling some wild varieties…
6 October, 2011 at 08:00 2 Comments
05 Oct

And is there honey still for tea? – #1472

Backlit apiarisms at the market. Tagline from Rupert Brooke‘s The Old Vicarage, Grantchester Peter Sellers recycled it in his exquisite 1958 American travelogue parody. One man, all the voices..
5 October, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
04 Oct

Bonjour, Monsieur – #1471

We’ve known Pierre Schott for ages and a day. He used to restore scrubbed pine furniture in his workshop in the old Lampenfabrik before it got all gentrified and flashed…
4 October, 2011 at 08:00 2 Comments
03 Oct

Precision – #1470

Want to be a landscape gardener? Among other things, you’ll learn how to lay cobblestones. During your 3 year apprenticeship
3 October, 2011 at 08:00 6 Comments
02 Oct

Ring, ring….- #1469

And talking of telephones… This unfortunately reminds me of an utterly un-PC joke. Don’t say I didn’t warn you… Rings by Volker Urban, who takes  plastic cellulose acetate (the stuff…
2 October, 2011 at 08:00 2 Comments
01 Oct

Monthly Theme Day – Mystery Object – #1468

The Boat People post last month had people confused about the strange grey UFO- like objects on the stand next to the Bluemels. I can reveal that their true (and…
1 October, 2011 at 08:00 2 Comments
28 Sep

On yer bike – #1465

Can’t see the point of having a bike if you have to take it along on the train.   AND pay for it, too…
28 September, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
27 Sep

Ambush – #1464

Television crew from ZDF’s “Ultimate Weekly News” (which tells you what sort of program it is…) lurks on the market, trying to entrap people into saying something that they’ll carefully…
27 September, 2011 at 08:00 4 Comments
26 Sep

Urban decay – #1463

Cigarette vending machine
26 September, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
25 Sep

Chick power – #1462

Another bloody feminist in the making. Rant on about being oppressed and all that crap and then expect you to open the door for her.. And clenched fist salutes will…
25 September, 2011 at 08:00 4 Comments
24 Sep

Can’t find my way home – #1461

The first thing that flashed into my head when I saw the shot. (Being a foreigner – or “someone with a migration background” as they delicately phrase it these days…
24 September, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
23 Sep

Little Miss Einstein – #1460

Having observed me thrashing along the Rheinstrasse on the trusty velocipede the other day, our young friend Rute (aka Little Miss Einstein), erstwhile culinary journalist and budding Nobel Prize winner…
23 September, 2011 at 08:00 6 Comments
22 Sep

Limpidity – #1459

The confluence of the Nahe and Rhine at Bingen
22 September, 2011 at 08:00 6 Comments
21 Sep

Savouring…. – #1458

….the soft rays of an autumnal sun and a Caffee Moguntia coffee. And not at all Riesling-esque Quite the opposite, in fact…
21 September, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
20 Sep

Immigrant – #1457

Meenz hat Woi. Die Hesse habbe Ebbelwoi. Aka Apfelwein, Stöffche, Äbbelwoi, Ebbelwei, Viez or Äppler. A very astringent cider and an acquired taste. About 10 years of more or less…
20 September, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
19 Sep

Taste the waste – #1456

Important stuff, this. Taste The Waste is a grass-roots political platform created to combat food waste. They put on an event on the Gutenbergplatz on Friday, serving 3500 really good…
19 September, 2011 at 08:00 6 Comments
18 Sep

A potter’s telephone – #1455

So what do you do when you’re at the potter’s wheel, hands all gooey with clay when the phone rings? Answer it. Seen at Frank the Potter‘s place. +49 6706…
18 September, 2011 at 08:00 6 Comments
17 Sep

The sky at night – #1454

Dusk, anyway. Taken on a farm track between Sörgenloch and Nieder-Olm. iPhone 4
17 September, 2011 at 08:00 4 Comments
16 Sep

The Boat People – #1453

Gary and Kathy Bluemel from Loudon, Tennessee. When you see a group of people with eyes as big as saucers and wearing name tags, gazing in wonderment at the sights…
16 September, 2011 at 08:00 7 Comments
15 Sep

I love the sound of breaking glass – #1452

Industrial decay at the Zündholzfabrik [Matchstick Factory] in Mainz-Kostheim. Nick Lowe had something to say about that…
15 September, 2011 at 08:00 1 Comment
14 Sep

Every cloud… #1451

..has a silver lining. Der Hohe Dom zu Mainz (Mainz Cathedral to you…) reflected on wet cobblestones on the market
14 September, 2011 at 08:00 2 Comments
10 Sep

Groucho woz here – #1447

An un-rearranged skipping rope outside the Feldbergschule. Reminded me of one of those Groucho Marx clip-on glasses/nose/moustache thingies
10 September, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
09 Sep

Hat…… – #1446

…….trick. Some people stand out on the market. People carrying around cheese packed in gingham-patterned paper, for instance………
9 September, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments
08 Sep

Who wants to be a Millionaire? – #1445

Dead easy. Spend €3 on a physalis plant. Stick it in the ground. Wait 5 years, during which time it will have invaded your entire garden (plus those of all…
8 September, 2011 at 08:00 3 Comments