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Category Archive: Mainz

29 Sep

>Ups and downs – #1111

> Skill sets on display at Villa Musica. Not many places in the world where you’re pretty much guaranteed of getting high levels of artisan skills. Here, for sure
29 September, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
28 Sep

>Make mine a ….#1110

> ….Hefeweizen. At the Alte Patrone, a one-time munitions dump for the circle of fortifications around Mainz dating back to the late 19th C. Then again, maybe 8 in the…
28 September, 2010 at 11:00 4 Comments
27 Sep

>You know it’s autumn… – #1109

> when sweetheart cabbages, leeks and celeriac start crowding out raspberries, blackberries and nectarines…
27 September, 2010 at 11:00 6 Comments
26 Sep

>Talk about biblical – #1108

> I seriously expected the four riders of the Apocalypse to emerge from all that cumulo-whatever. At least, I THINK that’s what’s meant to happen on Judgement Day. I’m sure…
26 September, 2010 at 11:00 5 Comments
25 Sep

>Gutenberg and his apprentice….#1107

> “Here I am, working my butt off and the boss just sits there reading the bloody newspaper. I think I’ll join the union” “Sod him. He should consider himself…
25 September, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments
24 Sep

>And God said, Let there be light – #1106

> ….and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. (I’ve always liked Genesis. Especially the pre-Phil Collins era…) Verily it was good, too. The Lux…
24 September, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
23 Sep

>Sibling rivalry – #1105

> I DO enjoy the annual Wissenschaftsmarkt (Knowledge Fair) in Mainz, being that it’s housed in yurt-like structures (takes me back to my time in Almaty – all 22 hours…
23 September, 2010 at 11:00 5 Comments
22 Sep

>Intwinned – #1104

> Mainz has almost as many twin cities as Paris Holidayinn and Lindsay Lolife (or whatever their names are) have “friends” on Facebook and Twitter combined. Has some advantages. Firstly,…
22 September, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
20 Sep

>Dig in – #1102

> Hope they said grace beforehand. “2, 4, 6, 8 Dig in, don’t wait…” Posted using BlogPress in the absence of any Internet connectivity thanks to 1&1, my ISP, who…
20 September, 2010 at 11:00 5 Comments
19 Sep

>Organic – #1101

> I’m sure that there’s a booming industry, supplying the local poultry farmers with polyester feathers and fake chicken faeces. And a service industry paying people a pittance for gluing…
19 September, 2010 at 11:00 4 Comments
18 Sep

>Oh really? -#1100

> Someone’s not convinced. Unhappiness personified and to be found all around Mainz. Documented comprehensively elsewhere by Fish & Chips and Gucki
18 September, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments
17 Sep

>Grape or grain? – #1099

> Not that I’m a drinking man (anyone who claims otherwise is a liar..), but it the sight of ripening grapes does fill me with great happiness in anticipation of…
17 September, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments
16 Sep

>And no-one told me….? – #1098

> I can normally smell microbreweries at a distance of 15 kilometres or so, but this one appears to have slipped under the radar. The Goldener Engel (“Golden Angel”) brewery…
16 September, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments
15 Sep

>Do this, do that….#1097

> The ferry operators plying the Rhine are nothing if not direct. Assertive, even. Turn off your engine! Pull on the handbrake! Switch off your lights! Stay with your car!…
15 September, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
14 Sep

>In the pink – #1096

> Now, would you happen to be pro- or antisecco? I’m definitely for the former, especially if it’s from Matthias Wolf’s vineyard in Lörzweiler…
14 September, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
13 Sep

>Stumped – #1095

> Despite having become a recognised expert on things nephological, I have no explanation for this phenomenon. And this is only PART of it. Imagine this as the left hand…
13 September, 2010 at 17:00 4 Comments
12 Sep

>A good feed – #1094

> Great crop of wild mushrooms this year. Out in the hills on the bike today and found loads. Checked in my edible mushroom book and they all look pretty…
12 September, 2010 at 09:00 6 Comments
11 Sep

>Exclusively yours… – #1093

> Ripping along the river the other week with the Prof on one of our heroic bike rides when we almost bowled over this trio. Prof barely dodged them and…
11 September, 2010 at 11:00 6 Comments
10 Sep

>Lunch – #1092

> You can do 2 things. You can go to one of the ubiquitous bakery chains and buy a roll with the consistency of cirro-cumulus enveloping a slice of plastic…
10 September, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
09 Sep

>Is it a bird…? -#1091

> Is it a plane? No, it’s Bicycle Repair Man! That’s what the sign outside the corner shop in the Kirchstrasse in Gonsenheim says. Inside, you’ll find Fred Willem who…
9 September, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments
07 Sep

>Gobble, gobble – #1089

> The various Mainz city coats of arms in the town hall, starting with Ebersheim at the bottom and doubtlessly ending up with Gonsenheim (with a halo) at the top.…
7 September, 2010 at 11:00 4 Comments
06 Sep

>Life’s a beach – #1088

> I seem to have misunderstood the concept. I fronted up here last week on the bike, changed into my swimming togs and performed a fairly (for me) elegant entry…
6 September, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments
05 Sep

>Local hero – #1087

> Jochen Rindt, the Formula 1 racing driver and 1970 posthumous World Champion died 40 years ago today. A brake-shaft failed at the end of the main straight during practice…
5 September, 2010 at 11:00 1 Comment
04 Sep

>I only stopped worrying about my children…- #1086

> …when I found out they were in an old folks’ home.” Exhibition in the foyer of the Rathaus (town hall) of large format photographs of centenarians, based on selection…
4 September, 2010 at 11:00 5 Comments
03 Sep

>Mirror, mirror… – #1085

> …on the wallwho’s the ugliest sod of all?” The photographer, for sure. No doubt, as Omar would say… (Cool t-shirt, though) “Weinhaus zum Spiegel (mirror)”, Leichhof
3 September, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments
02 Sep

>Magical powers – #1084

> Minding my own business on the way to the market the other day when the water normally issuing from the fountain miraculously parted in front of me.. Stopped. Took…
2 September, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments
01 Sep

>Monthly Theme Day – Open Air Market – #1083

> Open Air Market. Thanks a bunch. Of the 20,000+ digital images I’ve got stored on iPhoto, in excess of 19,500 (I think..)are of the market in Mainz. Lazy as…
1 September, 2010 at 07:00 9 Comments
31 Aug

>Paul Haenlein woz here – #1082

> That’s not him on the wall – that would be Saint Vincent after whom the hospital originally housed in this building was named. Saint Vincent of Saragossa was one…
31 August, 2010 at 11:00 5 Comments
30 Aug

>Samira e Alessandro – #1081

> Samira runs the wonderful everything-Italian-with-some-French-stuff-thrown-in-for-good-measure stand on the market, with a little help (Saturdays only) from Alessandro, a waiter we know from our local Italian restaurant. Asked Samira if…
30 August, 2010 at 11:00 5 Comments
29 Aug

>Feats don’t fail me now – #1080

>   Rocked on down to the Frankfurter Hof in Mainz last night to finally see Little Feat. Never got to see them during the Lowell George period – he’s…
29 August, 2010 at 11:00 1 Comment
28 Aug

>Choose yer shoose – #1079

> A A major attraction of the Schuhtick exhibition was a catwalk for the kiddies, where they could shed their streetware, slip into the red shoes from the other day…
28 August, 2010 at 11:00 3 Comments