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15 Oct

>Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette – #243

>“Now, I don’t want to get on a rant here” Dennis Miller would say. Smoking restrictions are gradually creeping across the land. The politicians could ignore the trend for much…
15 October, 2007 at 06:34 8 Comments
13 Oct

Ho hum…#241

Yet more accolades… Folks DO seem to like this image. First it gets chosen for an online tourist guide for Frankfurt. Now it’s gone and won a prize in a…
13 October, 2007 at 05:32 7 Comments
12 Oct

>The truth will out…#240

>Well, they tried covering it up, but it didn’t work.. The tatty tarmac job that someone slung on top of the brick surface of the Stefansstrasse, leading from St Stefan’s…
12 October, 2007 at 06:46 1 Comment
11 Oct

>The Gardeners – #239

>Darius Niklas works for the Iveco commercial vehicle dealership as a mechanic and is on their 24 hour Roadside Assistance team. How he finds time to garden as well, I…
11 October, 2007 at 11:06 1 Comment
10 Oct

>Did someone mention Zwiebelkuchen? – #238

>The traditional accompaniment to Federweisser is Zwiebelkuchen or onion flan. Standard fare in virtually every wine bar around here from September until well into October. Wildly varying quality and price,…
10 October, 2007 at 07:54 3 Comments
09 Oct

>Republicans. Boo! Hiss! – #237

>No, not George W. Bush’s lot. The Germany-for-the-Germans, seal-the-borders-and-kick-out-the-foreigners, extreme right wing splinter party (i.e 1% of the total vote and shrinking) held a conference (about 800 delegates) in the…
9 October, 2007 at 11:46 1 Comment
08 Oct

>It’s actually quite good for you…#236

>It’s Federweißer time! Yippee! Winemaking goes something like this. Pick the grapes and crush them to extract the juice, add yeast and let it bubble away until the sugar’s been…
8 October, 2007 at 08:01 3 Comments
04 Oct

>Great timing – #232

>Brand new organic supermarket arrives in the space vacated by Saturn, one of the big electronics places, next to Kaufhof. Inconvenient that the newspapers are currently full of articles on…
4 October, 2007 at 14:18 Leave a comment
03 Oct

>Eyesight to the blind – #231

>If you’re like me and somewhat easily confused, signs like this are a blessing sent from heaven. They prevent one, for example, from turning up at K. Schäfers’ premises and…
3 October, 2007 at 17:23 3 Comments
02 Oct

>Let there be light – #230

>Very obliging of the chappy in the car to light up the Gaustrasse for me the other evening. St Stephans (of Chagall fame) at the top of the hill. (Puff,…
2 October, 2007 at 07:12 Leave a comment
01 Oct

>To be or not to be… #228

> …organic. Why is it that organic veges mostly look pretty shitty? Y ou got to Alnatura and see the faithful buying a wizened parsnip or two and paying a…
1 October, 2007 at 07:00 3 Comments
30 Sep

>Quartier Mayence – #227

> “We mostly open at 5 or 6 pm, sometimes at 11am and then again, sometimes at 1 or 2pm. We mostly close at around 1 or 2 in the…
30 September, 2007 at 02:53 2 Comments
29 Sep

>"Don’t look at me… – #226

>…in that tone of voice.“ Half-jokingly, I said that to Dad once. Just once. (That was back in the days before physical punishment was frowned upon.) But don’t pansies sometimes…
29 September, 2007 at 07:14 1 Comment
28 Sep

>You Jane… – #225

>…me Kurth The name of this outfit gave me instant flashbacks to Johnny Weissmuller, but it’s really a hearing aid/aural protector retailer in the Schillerstrasse Very 80s
28 September, 2007 at 07:01 1 Comment
27 Sep

>Death in the afternoon – #224

>There was a smashing noise and everybody stopped to look. At the toddler in the pushchair, looking quite forlorn at the pattern of Smarties sprinkled across the cobblestones of the…
27 September, 2007 at 06:49 6 Comments
25 Sep

>It’s a dog’s life.. – #222

>Not if you’re a guest at Cafe Dinges in Mainz, though. The first thing you’ll see when you come in the door will really get your tail wagging…. 2 bowls…
25 September, 2007 at 06:31 1 Comment
22 Sep

>Say cheese… – #219

>I was tempted to do a “John Whatley” – (you know – “Aren’t we lucky people..!), but it’s pretty self-evident when you figure that is just ONE of the cheese…
22 September, 2007 at 06:40 3 Comments
21 Sep

>Kiwis are such vane creatures – #218

>Not very often, though. This chappy’s been on our roof since my 50th birthday – 9 or so years now. Wasn’t an easy task to get it, says She, and…
21 September, 2007 at 07:00 Leave a comment
20 Sep

>You know it’s Autumn…. – #217

>….when massed chrysanthemums appear on the market. Although a Fall trip to New England a couple of years ago had me confused for a while. “Mums for sale” signs all…
20 September, 2007 at 07:19 1 Comment
19 Sep

>Cluck, cluck – #216

>This is one of those things that can only happen in Mainz.(Not that outrageous things don’t happen elsewhere…) There’s a guy on the market who sells eggs. Nothing else. Just…
19 September, 2007 at 06:00 Leave a comment
18 Sep

OK, so it’s not strictly Mainz… #215

>…but there’s no Frankfurt Daily Photo and I’m actually pleased as Punch at having this image from the Schirn Gallery in Frankfurt chosen for an online travel guide. It’s a…
18 September, 2007 at 05:40 8 Comments
16 Sep

>….and Gomorrah – #213

>The Rugby World Cup is happening right next door in France. You wouldn’t notice. DSF, the national (commercial) sports channel did a big blurb about providing live coverage for all…
16 September, 2007 at 08:31 2 Comments
15 Sep

>Hardy. Yeah, right – #212

>Some shady character on the market sold this to Ms. jb while my back was turned. “But it’s hardy! That’s what he said, anyway” “Who’s “he”?” “That chappy over….. well,…
15 September, 2007 at 13:00 1 Comment
14 Sep

>Dig this – #211

>Dig around here at your peril. These days, anyway. At one stage, you could get away with cultural murder. In 1884, for example. Laying a new track for a railway…
14 September, 2007 at 06:05 2 Comments
13 Sep

>Forting around – #210

> It’s not a big surprise that Mainz shows distinct signs of having been fortified. Centuries (Centuries? Millennia…!) of Romans, Huns, Swedes, French, Austrians and sundry ratbags thrashing up and…
13 September, 2007 at 10:48 2 Comments
12 Sep

>Cascone #209

>“Aren’t we lucky people!” my mate John Whatley would say. We certainly are, having the Cascones just up the road. Michael (in the background) is the head honcho – the…
12 September, 2007 at 10:44 3 Comments
11 Sep

>She Blinded Me With Science – #208

>I thought I was back in Kazakhstan. Or perhaps in Lapland. All of these white domed structures on the Gutenbergplatz. Were they yurts? Or igloos? Nope. Pavilions for the Gutenberg…
11 September, 2007 at 06:49 2 Comments
10 Sep

>Job – #207

>So after Job’s wife was morphed into a pillar of salt, Job evidently also had a look back. He appears to have turned into a glass recycling container. Or was…
10 September, 2007 at 06:18 3 Comments
09 Sep

Floored – #206

There’s no such thing as an “Oberwesel Daily Photo”, so I’m claiming the territory for MDP. The monastery in Oberwesel was built in 1240, 40 years after the Franciscans established…
9 September, 2007 at 06:33 4 Comments
08 Sep

>Inferno II – #204

>Another incendiary milestone in Mainz’s history – this one more physical than moral – is documented on the base of the Heuensäule From the official history of RAF Bomber Command…
8 September, 2007 at 06:20 4 Comments
07 Sep

>I touched the cloak of the Prophet… #203

>Big do at the Gutenberg Center (their spelling, not mine…), a greenfield site with a mega-supermarket and a mega-electronics store in Bretzenheim, yesterday evening. MediaMarkt (aforementioned mega electronics store) and…
7 September, 2007 at 06:30 1 Comment