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28 Sep

Hens’ teeth

The Coface Arena in Mainz holds 34,000 spectators. It’s normally pretty full, but when Bayern Munich turns up, you’re like sardines in a tin. I figured that trying to score…
28 September, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
27 Sep

A christening

Thekla, the little sweetie from next door, was christened at the Protestant church in the village last Sunday. Heaps of folks in addition to what appears to be a sizable…
27 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
26 Sep

It’s not called “Mayence” for nothing……

Mainz has a coloured history – Romans, Franks, Vandals, Swedes, Austrians, French all turned up at some stage and stayed for various periods of time – but it’s the bleu-blanc-rouge…
26 September, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
25 Sep

The Prodigal Oz returns……

Andrew van Leeuwen and I go back a long way. Although it seems longer than just 3 years….. We hit it off straight away and I was mightily narked when…
25 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
24 Sep

Autumnal

Yesterday was Officially Autumn, but I’d promised Simone Bott a slott [sic] on MDP so here we are – a day late and a dollar short. Did you know that…
24 September, 2015 at 08:18 1 Comment
23 Sep

Why I like Mainz – Simone Bott

Simone Bott co-runs the eponymous family tiling business in Weisenau. It’s the go-to place if you want quality and expert advice. In the process of renovating one of the bathrooms…
23 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
22 Sep

A harrowing experience…..

Riding through the fields in Hechtsheim can be quite traumatic….
22 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
21 Sep

It’s a hard life…..

Being forced to sit in the Porter House, an Irish pub in Mainz, drinking Guinness and watching the Rugby World Cup game NZL vs ARG on a big flat screen…
21 September, 2015 at 08:44 3 Comments
20 Sep

Powerful stuff

An event in front of the Staatstheater on Friday, highlighting the work of and need for womens’ refuges in a most powerful way. Lines and lines of womens’ and kiddy’s…
20 September, 2015 at 08:00 3 Comments
19 Sep

Moritz 7.0

Werner Scholles‘s egg stand at the Mainz market just wasn’t the same without his tame rooster strolling around the table top. Moritz departed for the big hen house in the…
19 September, 2015 at 08:00 7 Comments
18 Sep

I really had to….

..er…crane my neck to see the top of the boom. Heavy-lifting in Klaawinnerum
18 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
17 Sep

Oi! You’ve missed one….!

“Waste not, want not” is what my granddad used to say. Sloppy stuff seen during the Grumbeerernte*. Local dialect for “potato harvest” What was that? You thought they’re called Kartoffeln…
17 September, 2015 at 08:01 2 Comments
16 Sep

And wind turbines are a big bloody con, of course.

Look at the amount of energy required to build, install, decommission and dispose of a single turbine and you’ll find it’s significantly more than the energy generated over a unit’s…
16 September, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
15 Sep

There is no such thing as a bad day…

…just good days for different things. When it’s blowing a gale and pouring with rain, that’s a good day to sit in a café with mates, not a day to…
15 September, 2015 at 08:00 3 Comments
14 Sep

Double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble.

Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,…
14 September, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
13 Sep

Why I like Mainz – Silke Wolf

If you’re partial to a decent sized piece of Fleischwurst, a roll and some mustard, the go-to place in Mainz is the Harth family’s mobile butcher on the market. Tuesday,…
13 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
12 Sep

The people you bump into….

Up at the Kaffeekommune the other week when 2 ladies walked up, wavering a bit as whether to go in. “Best coffee in Mainz” I said. “If not the world…”…
12 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
11 Sep

Concretehenge

Not to be outdone by the recent excavations at the English Stonehenge, our local builders (Karl-Heinz and Willibert Druid) quickly got into the act and slung up some pillars to…
11 September, 2015 at 08:00 7 Comments
10 Sep

Gute Besserung!

Or- “Get well soon” as they say around these parts. Which is what you’ll hear when you visit Monika Schmitt’s Andreas Apotheke (Andreas  Pharmacy, named after St Andrew, the patron…
10 September, 2015 at 08:00 3 Comments
09 Sep

Franciscus listened.

I’ve always wondered about that single reader from the Vatican who follows Mainz Daily Photo with the email address headhoncho@stpeters.va Turns that Pope Franciscus has been an avid follower for…
9 September, 2015 at 08:00 3 Comments
08 Sep

Procession

The first day at school in Germany is quite something. Kiddies with a year or more under their belts front up on the first day after the summer holidays and…
8 September, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
07 Sep

Running gag

Down at my local hangout, the Kaffeekommune, the other week and Tony, the English barista, said ” Oh, we’ve got a new blend today – it’s like drinking little raindrops…
7 September, 2015 at 08:00 3 Comments
05 Sep

Cry Wolf

Matthias Wolf’s winebar and vineyard restaurant in Lörzweiler is a real treat. In a very elegant barn conversion, he sells his own wine by the bottle and/or glass, Paulaner wheat…
5 September, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
04 Sep

And I thought….

that I had a big nose…. A proboscally gifted market visitor.
4 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
03 Sep

Werner

Werner Scholles, star of Mainz’s market. Accompanied for ages by Moritz, his Obixto cockerel, and bit sad these days at its passing. He’s been on TV heaps, spreading his jokes…
3 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
02 Sep

The risks of fandom

No sooner have you fallen in love with a player and got Gran to buy you his strip for Christmas than another club snaps him up and he’s gone. As…
2 September, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
31 Aug

Mary Ward

Or Maria Ward, pronounced in German to rhyme with “bard” Yorkshire lass, born into a Catholic family at a time (16C) of great religious conflict in England, forcing her relocation…
31 August, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments
30 Aug

Kuehn Kunz Rosen

When the Wall Street Journal writes an article about the German craft beer scene, you know it’s getting some traction. The latest on the scene in Mainz is Kuehn-Kunz-Rosen, drawing…
30 August, 2015 at 08:00 1 Comment
29 Aug

The daily grind

Laying new tram tracks in the Gaustrasse isn’t as simple as it looks, it appears. You don’t just dig everything up, whack in new metal and Bob’s your uncle… No,…
29 August, 2015 at 08:00 3 Comments
28 Aug

Herbaceously speaking…

I have an excellent recipe for a fresh pea soup, which I’m most happy to share if you’d care to send your address on the back of a €100 (or…
28 August, 2015 at 18:27 1 Comment
27 Aug

Comfortable shoes

In my mind, Birkenstocks are indelibly associated with müsli eaters, political protests and unshaven armpits. I evidently haven’t moved with the times, because Ms jb informs me that they’re now…
27 August, 2015 at 08:00 2 Comments