>Mainz’s Walk of Fame leads from the Shillerstrasse to the Unterhaus, next to the City Hilton. You won’t find Brad Pitt here, but you’ll recognise the names of the creme…
>Friday evening. 6 p.m. Mainz 05 vs. Bremen. Me and my mate Christoph. A beer before the game, a beer and a sausage in a roll with mustard at half-time.…
>Artichokes are really only thistles with a college education. The Italian folks on the market (they’re Sicilian, to be more precise) must have taken their eye off the ball for…
>The view as one emerges from the circular stairwell of the Theatre underground carpark, with the back of the original State Theatre on the right and Klaus Möbius’s Kleines Haus…
>The zucchini blossoms were so fresh on the market yesterday that bumble bees were still zipping in and out in a futile attempt at pollination. So the best thing to…
>How very excellent! You can drive into town on a Saturday morning and you’re the first car at the lights. You can find parking – this is the underground car…
>The Heunensäule – Giants’ Column – is the centrepiece of the market square in Mainz. Not easy to miss it, really.Neither would you be if you were 6.40 metres high…
>The market square in front of the cathedral is where you’ll find Germany’s oldest Renaissance well.It dates back to 1526 and was erected by Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg, Elector Prince…
>Here are two, anyway. Wind and sun. Shame that the aircraft back there is burning carbon-credits as if they’re going out of style…
>The modern equivalent of cattle rustlers around here are the folk who sneak out under cover of darkness (and sometimes not even that) and plunder orchards. Cherries, plums, apples, apricots,…
>The countryside around here gives you an idea of the challenges involved in achieving economies of scales in agriculture around here. Certainly looks picturesque, but no sooner have you turned…
> Yummy. Schusters, our Kleiin-Winternheim farmers, have the new season’s beans on the market in Mainz. Nothing better than to boil them until they’re still al dente together with a…
>Stumbled over this just excellent example of corporate landscaping in the Weissliliengasse yesterday. A pillar of interior-lit sandblasted glass on a stainless steel plinth, set in a bed of pea…
>…the Mulberry Tree. Morus Nigra. They were introduced into Europe to satisfy the demand for silk – silkworms just love the leaves – and were planted mostly in southern Europe.…
>“MKOP” is the name of a restaurant in Albany, just north of Auckland in New Zealand.Stands for My Kind Of Place”. Which it definitely isn’t – the only thing they…
>The “tin shed on wheels” is a welcome sight at the Friday and Saturday markets. And it’s a perfect fit – the colour even matches that of the Cathedral’s towers.…
>That’s how my Uncle John used to refer to the retirement village they were in, anyway. This is a brand new retirement home in Gonso. It’s a good looking structure…
>To be honest, I’ve never seen this machine on the road. Then again I don’t live in the Untere Zahlbacher Strasse in Mainz, where Juwi has its headquarters. Their slogan…
>In other words – lost. I found this confused-looking chappy stumbling around on the market on Friday. Based on the kit he was wearing, I think he might have been…
>This is the Sportverein 1919 Mainz-Gonsenheim, with the Vertical Village in its delicate pastel tones looking benevolently down from on high. They currently play in the Southwest Regional League which…
>No late frosts. Warm weather and lots of bees at blossom-time. No hail storms. (Yet…) Warm weather predicted for next week. If this keeps up, we could be in the…
>A splash of carved red coral that caught my eye in Odile Landragin’s garden yesterday.And here we all are again… Shanghai, China – Mumbai, India – New York City (NY),…
> Spent most of the other day with my mate, Frank Jung, the potter, shooting some images for an upcoming article that a flash lifestyle magazine wants to run on…
>Here’s our good friend Johannes Gutenberg keeping an eye on the Mainz State Theatre – the Staatstheater.(It used to be called the City Theatre – Stadttheater – but obviously got…
>We buy our veggies from Lorenz and Hildegard Schuster. They live in our village and you’ll find them on the market in Mainz on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. They only…
You won’t find anything much more traditionally Mainz than this – a decent sized chunk of Fleischwurst, straight out the pot, a freshly baked roll and a dollop of mustard.…
The church of St. Stephan in Mainz – founded by Bishop Willigis in 990, the present structure dating back to the 12th century – was heavily damaged by bombing 62…
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