……..Harry? That’s what “Hintz and Kuntz” means in English, anyway. (Or “Every bastard and his brother”, for that matter…) So this is definitely Koko and David but it’s definitely not…
This is going to be another one of those research projects. I just know it… The easy bit: “Reul“. A narrow passage between buildings, with its origin in the Latin “rivulus”.…
This is one of the guys who got to keep his land when they built Mainz 05’s new football stadium. (True) story’s over here. This is farming like it used…
Detail on the Vertical Village aka “Elsa”, the highrises (as in “23-story-highrises”) that Ms jb manages in Gonso. HT to Wisely for continued enjoyment
Guess where this is and I’ll buy you a coffee there. Answers on a €100 note, the usual suspects are of course excluded
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come. Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday. Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long. I am the…
Perspective noun \pər-ˈspek-tiv\ Middle English perspectyf, from Latin perspectus, past participle of perspicere to look through, from per- through + specere to look A view of the Rathaus and Andreu…
…. there’s a speed limit for bikes…? Shared pathway tracking the Rhine. Shades of Snow Prouse “Get out of the way, yer [expletive deleted]
…I rather like the Klarastrasse. Thanks to Marcel for the discovery
…wenn ihr Mainzer seid” (“On your feet/Get up if you’re a Mainzer” – classic Mainz 05 fan chorus ) The Allgemeine Zeitung ran an article on Mainz Daily Photo the…
Friday market. Joni says it so well. OK. Substitute “violin” for “clarinet”
The Nagelsäule (Nail Pillar) on the Liebfrauenplatz behind the Dom is a veritable treasure trove. This plaque was donated to honour the Schwestern des Festungslazaretts [Sisters of the Fortification Field…
A quote from Heinrich von Kleist‘s letter to Adolphine von Werdeck stretching through the shrubbage on the Schillerplatz and advertising the 3rd SWR Literature Night (tomorrow night), one of the…
Boring lot, these Germans. No sense of humour. A well known fact. Don’t believe a word of it. They built a roundabout/traffic circle/rotary in Mombach a couple of years ago.…
..now you don’t…. Talking with Stefan Sämmer, one of the local paper’s photogs, the other day about the disappearance of the gates at the Gutenberg Museum. “You MUST know about…
Translation as (pdf) here ….in the summer (if you can call it that…) of the Year MMXI that the renowned bird scribess Cibus Mercator of the Moguntiae Genera Papyrus did…
Marcel Meyer’s “You Work Where I Live” project continues to fascinate me, despite the fact that his temporary gallery has closed and he’s back at university. Of all the portraits,…
School class on the market and at the Gutenberg museum Clipboards loaded with questions and tasks, one of which is to replicate Carolingia text (below) with a quill (top). Verbal…
A street as an art gallery. Marcel Meyer is a media design student at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and lives in the Klarastrasse, one of the anonymous…
Norbert Trock has run “Rockpile” in Mainz for almost as long as I’ve lived here. Back then (late 70s), there was a plethora of good (as in: “High Fidelity“- good)…
That’s what his mum, Flor-Maria reckons, anyway. He appears to be pretty dubious about the whole deal. Maybe it’s the fact that Mum was dragging him along to a meeting…
They’re going to make a big star out of me…..” ©Johnny Russell/Voni Morrison Bird from the local paper turned up yesterday, asking me ALL sorts of questions and threatening to…
“Fava beans” sounds SO much more elegant. They could charge AT LEAST €3.50 a kilo. Even “broad beans” would fetch €3.20….
“I don’t think you’re doing this right. Let me just Google it to see if the mantra’s got 6 or 7 “m”s….”
This one’s navigationally challenged, aka Looking Over Strange Terrain. Personally, I think they’re all aliens, waiting for the Mother Ship. This one’s sending smoke signals. [Thinks: I always thought that…
There appears to have been an influx of chronologically-gifted folk with cropped grey hair. This one in the Augustinerstrasse
…”she looks like a Riesling” said Kalle Stöckle. We were at a dinner in a vineyard restaurant and sitting down the table from a particularly acerbic looking lady. The visual…
Cobblestones. Mainzer Rad. All we’re missing is a Meenzer Fleischworscht…. And a Weck. And Woi. Especially Woi….
red, yellow. And blue Primarily speaking, that is……..
Spektrale 2011 is a stunningly good exhibition under the auspices of “Stadt der Wissenschaft/City of Science 2011. More over at YMBFA with “A day at Spektrale 2011“, but Jule B…
Now, I’m not saying that Germany is over-regulated, but you can’t mow your lawn between 1pm and 3pm, you have to sweep your side-walk every Saturday (no, NOT Friday and…
Mainz Daily Photo 