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Category Archive: Mainz

03 Dec

Minimalism

Christmas tree decorations at Paul’s ever excellent Kaffeekommune. That’s it. Seriously…
3 December, 2020 at 16:43 1 Comment
02 Dec

Er, maybe not….

Bro Paul of Auckland-West fame (and too good a photographer not to resurrect his site) reminded me today that I should by rights be in New Zealand. Thanks for that,…
2 December, 2020 at 09:55 Leave a comment
27 Nov

I see a DIY Xmas tree bauble….

Other people see a pomegranate aka Punica granatum I reckon a spray can of red paint and a handful of glitter would be just the job. But let me tell…
27 November, 2020 at 09:00 1 Comment
26 Nov

A tale of two cities

On the left bank of the Rhine, we have Mainz – cathedral domes and church spires and stuff. On the other side of the river, we have Mainz-Kastel. Which gets…
26 November, 2020 at 09:00 Leave a comment
24 Nov

Balls…..

…to..for Xmas
24 November, 2020 at 09:00 1 Comment
24 Nov

Tripping…

..the Light (and dark) Fantastic.
24 November, 2020 at 09:00 Leave a comment
23 Nov

What’s the collective noun…

…for Saint Nick? Based on this lot, I think it’d be “A horrific of Santa Clauses”…
23 November, 2020 at 09:35 Leave a comment
20 Nov

N’Eis idea

Hard times for anyone in hospitality these days. Germany’s currently back in a mild version of lockdown for the month in an effort to get daily infection rates down from…
20 November, 2020 at 13:55 1 Comment
19 Nov

All the leaves are….

… brown red, and the sky is grey blue, I’ve been for a walk On an autumnal …… (choose your own…)
19 November, 2020 at 14:28 2 Comments
18 Nov

About as much use…

…as a chocolate teapot. It’s really good that the Corona app logs interactions with other folks and tells me that someone who a) wasn’t very close and b) briefly at…
18 November, 2020 at 16:16 1 Comment
12 Nov

Plug and..er.. Pray

12 November, 2020 at 15:49 2 Comments
09 Sep

Light at the end of…

…the Amiche. Which used to be a 30km/15 stop rural railway line linking Alzey and Bodenheim from the late 19th century until the mid-1980s. Tracks pulled and part of the…
9 September, 2020 at 13:50 Leave a comment
04 Sep

Six degrees of separation

Or.. how Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstrasse in Mainz reached a global audience of over 50 million viewers.Via Chinese Global Television Network Six degrees of separation is the idea…
4 September, 2020 at 09:56 Leave a comment
24 Sep

Now let’s see what happens….

Friedrich Roeingh, the editor of the regional Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung picked up on my research and published this article in yesterday’s weekend edition. (DeepL.com translation below) No more kicking the…
24 September, 2017 at 15:21 1 Comment
03 Sep

The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum – same old, same old

  This is the story of 4 significant sculptures by a significant living artist flanking the entrance to the world’s leading printing museum. The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. It’s…
3 September, 2017 at 20:53 1 Comment
29 Feb

Theme Day – March 2016 – “Heimat – A sense of belonging

Can you have 2 places where you feel you belong? I guess so. I got tapped for the March theme and I chose – there was a bit of pushback…
29 February, 2016 at 20:00 6 Comments
01 Feb

Monthly Theme Day – February 2016 – Scene from a coffee house

  Down here in NotNelson, I’m really spoiled for choice. In Mainz, there IS only one coffee house worth considering, namely Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune. Paul himself, with an espresso cup…
1 February, 2016 at 10:14 6 Comments
01 Jan

Monthly Theme Day – January 2016 – Photo of the Year 2015

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
1 January, 2016 at 08:00 3 Comments
12 Nov

“There go jb…..”

..says Sid, guest photog Ute Matchke‘s hound. “Finally” says jb. Wednesday instead of Monday, last seat on Thai to Bangkok NottheNelsonDailyPhoto.com takes over from here in a day or so.…
12 November, 2015 at 02:00 1 Comment
11 Nov

Glass half-empty?

Glass half-full? Well, if you’re trying to fly down to New Zealand to escape the winter and kick-start notthenelsondailyphoto, what you DON’T need is for Lufthansa’s cabin staff to cripple…
11 November, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
10 Nov

Could you PLEASE……

…all come down at once. And not in dribs and drabs. Or even SINGLY… It’s the middle of bloody November!
10 November, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
09 Nov

Carolus Magnus

2014 was the celebration of the 1200 year anniversary of the demise of Carolus Magnus’/Charlemagne/Charles the Great/Karl der Große. King of the Franks who united most of Western Europe during…
9 November, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
08 Nov

Sunday morning

Guest photog Ute Matschke again. She really is good….
8 November, 2015 at 07:31 2 Comments
07 Nov

Autumn – Harbst – האַרבסט

The Jewish cemetery in Hechtsheim
7 November, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
06 Nov

ACBZF – Not the dyslexic alphabet

The American Cajun, Blues & Zydeco Festival rolled up at the Frankfurter Hof in Mainz again the night before last, with the Cajun Roosters (as always – Brit, German, Belgian,…
6 November, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
05 Nov

Nightime in the big city

Used to be gas, now LEDs run on solar energy. Wait. That can’t be right…..
5 November, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
04 Nov

Magical properties

The Aeropress coffee at kaffeekommune is so good, it’s luminescent…..
4 November, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
03 Nov

End of the golden weather

The last hollyhock blossoms…
3 November, 2015 at 08:00 3 Comments
02 Nov

Ephemeral II

At this rate, guest photographer Ute Matschke is going to be permanent staff… This wonderful landscape shot would have been ideal for yesterday’s Monthly Theme Day, but I figured that…
2 November, 2015 at 08:00 4 Comments
01 Nov

Monthly Theme Day – November 2015 – Ephemeral

Ephemeral (from Greek εφήμερος – ephemeros, literally “lasting only one day”) This lasted < 2 minutes, being a core component of my celebration of New Zealand’s All Blacks beating Australia’s…
1 November, 2015 at 08:00 9 Comments
31 Oct

Golden October

31 October, 2015 at 08:00 3 Comments