There are few enough remnants of Mainz’s mediaeval city wall without their being imprisoned. Up until 10 years ago, this was a petrol station on the Rheinstrasse. BP closed it…
I’m going to front up at the reception of the University of Applied Sciences in the Rheinstrasse in Mainz and ask them what they know about the concrete relief gracing…
Even the bicycles are melting….
These 2 young folk from the city’s Horticultural Division ( I kid you not….) were hard at work at just after 7 a.m. the other day, tugging out tired looking…
Sparrowsfart (6:49 a.m.), lying on my stomach in the middle of the Cathedral Square, taking a photograph of a postcard propped up against my wallet. Little wonder that people came…
“Parking the van. Back at 8:50” No-one steals his cashbox or nicks any bread. Just do a circuit of the market and come back in 10 minutes. He’s worth it.
I used to be an oil lantern, but it got on my wick. Then I wanted to be a gas lantern, but they said I wasn’t bright enough. So now…
Not much use for these at the moment. Rain all week, more expected.
Good selection at the Johannisnacht market. (I spy with my little eye one for 50 Grad….)
Almost toppled off the trusty velocipede when I first clapped eyes on this place last year. This is the Don Bosco Catholic Youth Centre, an organisation supported by Diocese of…
…on the Augustinerstrasse.
..and dealing. Quite an appropriate image (a window in the “Zum Goldstein” winebar) for a bit of peripateticism. We used to be a Blogger blog. We’re now at WordPress. If…
…very nice lady (Heike Heiseler) from Ono Koon in the Augustinerstrasse. Not that I bought anything….
…chairs outside Ono Koon in the Augustinerstrasse
Madonna on high with cherubims, seraphims and twiddly bits at Jakobsbergstrasse 4.
Aqueductoral detail on one of the 9 carved stone cubes spelling out Johannes’ name on their horizontal surface one of the vertical planes in front of the Gutenberg Museum. (Why…
…a boy was playing cricket…. “Zum Goldstein” was first documented in 1568 and registered as an operating brewery in 1747. Mainz had over 20 breweries at the time –…
The foyer of the VIP lounge at Colosseum Cofacies decorated with Calderesque figures of “the beautiful game”, separated from the photographer by a thick pane of glass and hefty bouncers.…
Historical stuff, this…. “Typesetting and Design” Typesetting machine knowledge” “The serigraph manual” In 30 years, we (you, actually, I’ll have fallen off the perch by then…) will stumble over…
Beginner level stuff. Urban recycling on the Kästrich. (Just make sure you don’t fall in through the windows….)
The real McCoy, as it were, decorating the collar of the Heunensäuleon the market
..is having a Reduziert. If you have to translate [übersetzen]your advertising [Werbung] into your customers’ own language [Sprache], you’ve got the wrong advertising agency [Werbeagentur]. Linguistic fail.
It’s always a surprise to find what you associate with cooler days and longer nights on the market in mid-summer. Savoy cabbage, for example. It’s only when you listen to…
The Lavazza café in the Augustiner Strasse has a lot going for it. Cosy in winter, seating out in the (pedestrian precinct) road, 2 golden retrievers to step over, nice…
Just go from one end of a SINGLE MARKET STAND in Mainz and take one image each of what they’re selling at the moment. This was last Friday…..
Rampant cubism on display in one of the City of Science installations.
…busting out all over….. Seen at Yokojeff Onokoon in the Augustinerstrasse
One good reason to visit Bad-Kreuznach is to learn how to walk again after the nice people in the Vincenz Hospital in Mainz give you a Bionic Leg.. Another –…
The entertaining Christians vs Lions game did finish at the Colosseum Via Fractus at 17:15. And thus did the 20,300 disciples of the Tribe of Mainz 05 follow Presidentus Strutzus…
The things you stumble across in the country. Honesty box stand on the cycle track between Mommenheim and Harxheim with all sorts of interesting stuff. Bog standard fruit jellies,…
….its own National State City Flower, I think I’ve found it! It’s Paeonia suffruticosa or the tree peony aka Narrenkappius officinalis. The blossom’s a treat, but if you wait a…
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