>Mrs jb and Frank the Potter‘s wife, Ingrid, toddled off to the ballet in the Staatstheater in Mainz (foyer above) yesterday evening, leaving Frank and I with instructions of a)…
>Shortly after I moved to Germany way back in mumble mumble, I showed a girl I went to school with a map of where I was living. “What’s all the…
>The Kunsthalle opened in Mainz on Saturday, more of which later during the week. More people than you could shake a stick at yesterday (was going to write “every bastard…
>…..isn’t something that you’d often find in advertisements over here. There’s still a lot of numbing awfulness around, but ones like this play on words show that there’s hope Literally:…
>…between art and vandalism. The eye of the beholder, as usual….. Adelaide, Australia by Gordon, Albuquerque (NM), USA by Helen, Aliso Viejo (CA), USA by Rodney, American Fork (UT), USA…
>Definitely a case of “hold your breath, zip down the alley, take a picture and run back out before exhaling” Crikey, they must have been skinny back then. Just like…
>Getting around Mainz is dead easy. Walk (lots of pedestrian precincts and it’s not that big) Bike (remind me to tell you about the rules they have here sometime) Car…
>There’s German. And then there’s dialect. Potatoes are Kartoffeln. In Hochdeutsch – High German They’re also Erdapfel – “earth apples”, which is also what the French call them – Pommes…
>..just sound onomatopoetically distasteful. “Smear”, for example. To stain by or as if by spreading or daubing with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance To stain or attempt to destroy…
>Until the sun gets its skates on and achieves a decent elevation in order to spread its rays over the lip of the canyon that is the Augustinerstrasse, I won’t…
>This might be somewhat macabre and in (the usual) bad taste, but the first thing that came to mind when walking past the Senior’s Village in Gonsenheim this afternoon was…
>Not really. Before we all get frantic and de-mothball the lawnmowers, this is winter wheat. Sow it in autumn, it germinates before winter sets in and then takes a low…
>People appear to have secateur-fever at the moment. Snip, snip, snip… Can’t get away from it. First it’s the grapevines. Now it’s the pollarded plane trees along the banks of…
>It’s time to get out into the vineyards and finish off the pruning. Do it to early and you risk frost damage. Leave it too late and you risk bleeding…
>.. said Cameron Leslie about his sisters at one stage. Could say the same about Christoph and Uschi Niklas’s 3 kids. Susie has Lucy (4) and Kalle (2) , Sonja’s…
>“The Queen” ,in this case, is a very regal rubber duckie and a (the?) central figure in Kerstin Agger‘s “Die Königin reist” project. Kerstin’s an artist based in Bad Münster…
>..at the market on Saturday. Think he’s in training for the REAL THING Tags: Mainz, Joe Cool, sunglasses, market
>Willie Wisely says it best, of course. As ever. But photographically I’m more than happy with this (un-Photoshopped) view from the Grebenstrasse in the Altstadt. Looking through the Kanzel restaurant…
> I was never quite sure what these conical structures on the Tritonplatz were. Cold war-era missile silos that weren’t dug quite deep enough, exposing the nosecones to the elements?…
>Appear to have overlooked a significant event. Bugger. Seen outside the “Girlande“ Where else…?
>..I’m not. (Not like my friend John Whatley, who claims to be one at age 70 and whom we now disrespectfully but affectionately refer to as Methuselah.) But this thingie…
>Don’t speak the local lingo? Or just want to catch up on news from home? No worries – you’re pretty well looked after as far as newspapers are concerned around…
> .. that you shouldn’t buy just anywhere” So goes the Philip Morris ad, showing a lavatory attendant next to the “Yummy! Cheap rolls” sign at her place of work.…
>.. how much this sort of kit costs. I haven’t got a clue…. Tags: Mainz, Guess
>The region around Mainz isn’t particularly suited to windmills. The hills of the Hunsrück and the Pfalz block the Atlantic westerlies, leaving us with 180 virtually wind-still days a year.…
>There are hipsters. And then there are HIPSTERS…. (Or are they “upper-thighers”?) Anyway, it’s a good thing that we’re open-minded around here and don’t get all het up about wardrobe…
>…we’ll be ready. And who said that stacking firewood isn’t an art form? In fact, it should be an Olympic discipline. Has AT LEAST as much claim to inclusion as…
>All over for another year. Thank goodness for small mercies…. Tags: Mainz, Karneval
>There is a world outside Karneval… Take your pick from musicals, serious clubbing or disco. The Tiroler’s the place to go if you’re a bit hard up – your bird’ll…
>If you ever get over to our neck of the woods, this is a worthwhile day’s outing – the Rheinsteig, a 250 km hiking track from Wiesbaden to Bonn. Not…
>The Netherlands exports 40,000,000 – FORTY MILLION! – tulips a week. Sometimes I think their entire production ends up in our house. A week has 7 days, 168 hours, 10080…
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