> Might look like the Dutch fan block at the World Cup in South Africa, but on closer inspection, it turns out to be a mass planting of Tropaeolum or…
> … could be copper. Now if Aldi (the leading budget grocery chain over here) uses copper cladding, there’s bound to be a good reason for it. I.e. cheaper than…
> ..at the end of the proverbial. Either that or it’s the Second Coming at the top of the exit ramp from the Theatre underground carpark. If it is the…
> …then hayell, Pairis, Frayence* belongs to the territory. The real story’s over on Paris through my lens which is an offshoot of Birmingham Alabama Daily Photo, run by a…
> …”Let there be light”. And verily did arise the Lampenfabrik in the Dagobertstrasse. With a Madonna on the other side of the street to make sure it stays…
> I have no idea how I got roped into this, but last week I ended up at the University of Applied Sciences in Pforzheim lecturing 30 odd (surprisingly…
> It was like déja vu all over again. Wrapping up a littlie in a sheet and carrying it around one’s neck appears to be the preferred international paediatric mode…
> …while Heiko contemplates his role as Hercules for the next 7 years, the rest of the team opened up the family courtyard for the Open Gardens thingie. They USED…
> ….. win…. One could think that Germany was playing today. They are? In 63 minutes? Bugger. Better find a TV fairly rapidly, then…… Posted using BlogPress
> The Simson Schwalbe (“Swallow”) The company started off in the century-before-last as a weapons manufacturer which then made cars which was then was then seized from its Jewish…
> Heiko Dettweiller has obviously not heard of the fifth of Hercules’ 12 labours. To wit: cleaning the Augean stables within a single day. Augeas, one of the Argonauts, had…
> I was so gobsmacked, I forgot to curtsey. “Your Majesty….” I stammered. “Oh goodness” she said ” Just call me Sina” Sina Listmann is the Rhine-Hessian Wine Queen…
> As hard as I’ve tried, all I can find out about this fountain, located slap in the middle of the Leichhof, is that it’s been there since 1980, it’s…
> If you wanted to go get home by bus on Tuesday evening, you were pretty much stuffed, with one of the major traffic axes being monopolised by a student…
> Jürgen and Carolin Hofmann are true shooting stars among the new generation of vintners. She’s been named “Young vintnerin of the year” by none less than Stuart Piggot and…
> Karstadt is a department store of the old order. The first store was opened in Wismar in 1881 and it’s been synonymous – along with Kaufhof, Hertie and others…
> ..Milennium. The boy hisself, as flash as a rat with a gold tooth, on his very own pedestal in his eponymous square. So doesn’t time just fly? Thanks for…
> Or – Leave no fragment behind. Asparagus is dodgy stuff. When you see it on the market, regimentally lined up as if every spear had been cloned, you’re looking…
> I have a feeling that the Odilarium was originally intended to be a swimming pool, but somehow ended up as a sunken garden. Whatever. It’s one of the many…
> Open Gardens Day in Gonsenheim last week and Stein’s Herb Nursery had all sorts of activities for littlies, one of which attracted some…er…not so little littlies. For example: the…
> …that time of year. Season runs until St John’s Day – 24 June
> They don’t look very geriatric to me (although I’m told that some dye their hair…) And the gradient on the Windmühlenstrasse is mild to the point of being almost…
> There are some things that are worth paying good money for. Good tools, for example. DeWit makes exquisitely good garden tools. Carbon steel blades, ash handles. This little…
> Odile Landragin‘s documentation of the weather in May 19 Rain Rain20 Cool Cool21 Same A small excerpt of a meteorologically challenging month. Killed my basil plants, that’s for sure….
> Visit enough art museums and you can start to empathise with this fridge magnet from Sticky Jam, a funky design outfit from Hamburg: “Is that art or can we…
>“Bloody hell” I thought. “BARRY MANILOW polluting the ethers in Mainz? I thought he was dead” Certainly deserves to be and reason enough to get the next train out of…
> The Markthäuser complex on the Domplatz/Cathedral Square appears to have a big, smelly albatross hanging around its neck. Not only were they comprehensively bowled a couple of times, but…
> Your product. Your message. This oversized Whatever was waddling through Mainz the other day, not making a lot of progress, but attracting quite a few inquisitive onlookers. A…
> And this is Spring? Bloody weather…. Schillerstrasse
> There are few more pleasant ways of spending an afternoon than drinking wine and snacking* at the Wagner-Stempel vineyard in Siefersheim. OK, so it’s not free, but his Riesling…
> “So what do you think of the Pfeddersheimer*?” asked Martin Luther a bunch of friends in Wittenburg in 1540.*In this context “So what do you think of this wine…
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