Mainz Daily Photo

Category Archive: Mainz

22 Feb

>Just think – #712

> If the cheese lady hadn’t put out free samples at the market the other day, I would never have discovered Gourmino, a really stunning Swiss cheese. Mature but not…
22 February, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments
21 Feb

>Talk about iconic…#711

> Carnival AND Ditsch’s pretzels in a single image. Can’t get much hardcore Mainz that that, eh? Talking of icons. Or “Ike and”s Went to see Tina Turner last night…
21 February, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
20 Feb

>Writ large – #710

> Not that I can read it, of course. Not even the bits that are in focus… Thinks: Wasn’t there a TV series with Tom Selleck…? Inscription in the cathedral
20 February, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
19 Feb

>I spy…..#709

> …with my little eyeSomething beginning with “P” “Poplars!”No, they’re birches.“Plue sky!”Stop being silly“Post with a lamp on!”Now you’re being REALLY silly“OK, I give up…” It’s a pollutant measuring station,…
19 February, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
18 Feb

>I got a fast car… – #708

> ….it’s a Jaguar, and I’ll get you to the plane on timeDrinkin’ Lone Star, play guitar, we’ll have a real good time Texas Rose Cafe – Little Feat [Listen]…
18 February, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
17 Feb

>Consider thyselves……#707

> …valentined. OK. So it’s a couple of days late. So….?
17 February, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
16 Feb

>The soundtrack of my childhood – #706

> OK, so this is definitely NQM (Not Quite Mainz) and decidely waaay off track, but it’s too good to just skim past. Jan Liefers is a German actor with…
16 February, 2009 at 09:00 Leave a comment
15 Feb

>Quaint traditions – #705

> On regular occasions, you’d be forgiven for thinking that whole suburbs are being evicted on the same day. Nothing of the kind. It’ll be Sperrmülltag – the inorganic waste…
15 February, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
14 Feb

>1000 years old. Yeah right… – #704

> Don’t believe a word of it. BITS of the cathedral are 1000 years old – this tower and the matching one on the other side, for instance – but…
14 February, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
13 Feb

>Rundgang 2 – #703

> This is one of the less WTF installations at Mainz’s Art College – a Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg contraption with an endless film loop projecting a marginally moving image onto…
13 February, 2009 at 16:46 3 Comments
12 Feb

>Audi doodie – #702

> Not actually flying off the lot at the moment…..
12 February, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
11 Feb

>Must be going nuts – #701

> All for you, as Sister Hazel would say….
11 February, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
10 Feb

>Prey tell….#700

> …what manner of feathered creature be this? It’s always a good idea to keep moving when one’s out and about in the fields around here. Not if this is…
10 February, 2009 at 12:00 Leave a comment
09 Feb

>Rundgang – #699

> Who says advertising doesn’t work? The Art College in Mainz plastered their exceptionally eye-catching poster for their “Rundgang” (“Doing the rounds”) open day all over the city and it…
9 February, 2009 at 09:00 3 Comments
08 Feb

>Priceless….#698

> Saturday morning grocery bill: €46.23 Having the cashier say “Unbezahlbar” when she scans your little boy and hands him back to you: Priceless. There are some things money can’t…
8 February, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
07 Feb

>Count them – #697

> There should be 1000. That’s how old Mainz’s cathedral (built by Bishop Willigis, who practiced with St Stephan first) is and 2009 is going be one big bash (sort…
7 February, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
06 Feb

>Cafe olé – #696

>   Difficult times around here, what with caffeine withdrawal symptoms and stuff….. The TSOW has been noticeably absent for a bit while the proprietors splurge their profits in Capetown…
6 February, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments
05 Feb

>Hot stuff II- #694

>
5 February, 2009 at 12:00 1 Comment
04 Feb

>The Big Dig – #693

> The SATTOTH (Subdivision At The Top Of The Hill) is coming along quite spiffingly. The big machines at rest look quite pastoral compared with what they’ve done to the…
4 February, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
03 Feb

>This is a pot – #692

> My mate Frank the Potter is a magician, really. He takes a lump of soggy clay, puts it on a rotating wheel and makes a pot. With his hands.…
3 February, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments
02 Feb

>Get yer millions here..#691

> The queue almost went out of the door and around the block. The state lottery’s jackpot was up to €35/$50 million/£40 million/NZ¢100 million and the place went mad. Someone…
2 February, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
01 Feb

>February Theme Day – Paths and passages – #690

> As I was pathing (sorry about that – irresistible…) through town the other day, I reflected on the wisdom (or lack of) of getting out your shovel and having…
1 February, 2009 at 12:00 7 Comments
31 Jan

>Bums on seats – #689

> In a past life, I used to be in the business of helping airlines get bums on seats, as it’s so delicately described in the business. (Check-in agents are…
31 January, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments
30 Jan

>And I’m meant to to get to work….#688

> ….how? Invasion of the Littlies from up the road
30 January, 2009 at 12:04 2 Comments
28 Jan

>The bridge to nowhere II – # 687

> There are, in fact, 5 bridges connecting Mainz with (boo, hiss) Hessen. Which is what happens when you’re on one side of the river and they’re on the other.…
28 January, 2009 at 12:00 3 Comments
27 Jan

>Could do with a touch-up – #686

> It must be about time – 200 years or so since they last gave it a splash of Dulux… The Augustiner Church in – you’ve guessed it – the…
27 January, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
26 Jan

>If I were a fish…- #685

> ..this is how I would see things. With my fish I.
26 January, 2009 at 12:00 Leave a comment
25 Jan

>"That buttress…- #684

> …looks bloody unsafe to me” “And it’s perched right above my head” Thus spoke a very nervous looking gargoyle on the facade of the new Markthäuser
25 January, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments
24 Jan

>Grapping the bull….- #683

> by the horns. Or the chin. Maybe they’re billygoats after all. In which case this is all a lot of bull…. Another in the series of carvings on the…
24 January, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
23 Jan

>Got milk? – #682

> Kiddyo here’s got the right idea. Fronts up at the TSOW of a Saturday and gets served a glass of frothed milk, while the rest of us dig in…
23 January, 2009 at 12:00 2 Comments
22 Jan

>Winter detritus – #681

> “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” Anne Bradstreet, ‘Meditations…
22 January, 2009 at 14:23 1 Comment