They don’t call this place Mayence for nothing. Any chance of having a good time is grabbed with both hands. One hand, actually. You need the other hand to hang…
Maria Meyer and Ute Matschke are among my favourite potters. I don’t buy a lot of their work – their target market is more families with kiddies – , but…
The Burgundermarkt on the Gutenbergplatz is a bi-annual and much anticipated event where small producers from Mainz’s twin town of Dijon set up their stands and sell everything from fresh…
This lady appears to be geographically and temporally confused. She’s in the Botanical Gardens at Mainz University on a Sunday and she’s waiting for Anthropology, an American chain of stores…
…to San Francisco…the Mainz University Botanical Garden Summer Fete, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair…” Diana, Lotte and Tabea took Scott McKenzie’s advice and availed themselves of…
Boehringer is a major life science corporation based in Ingelheim, just around the corner – 22km, under an hour oN the bike – from here. A major employer in the…
Visited friends and potters of renown Michael Salzer and Beate Thiesmeyer yesterday in their studio in the hills above the Rhine. Got talking to Michael about techniques and he took…
Actinidia deliciosa, aka Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, feeling very much at home in Dätwl’s vineyard courtyard in Wintersheim
N’Eis, the excellent ice-cream outfit on the Gartenfeldplatz in the Neustadt is renowned for its queues which frequently reached halfway down the block. Once you finally get in, you’re torn…
….if not innernationl [sic] We have Corsican mint, California poppies, Australian daisies and Greek yogurt. Not to mention Iceland poppies….
…..Grade 1 through 5. Fresh out of the ground. Could have nicked it. Didn’t. Grown under foil, you see….
Café rebranding in the Augustinerstrasse. Used to be Café Lavazza. Naff espresso, but 2 nice Golden Retrievers and the location’s great. It’s now Caffè Stivale – still a great location,…
This is the asparageous equivalent of battery chickens – cover your asparagus mounds with plastic (black on one side to warm them up, white to cool them down) and sell…
Not that much of a stranger if you’re from New Zealand, actually. Metrosideros thomasii – pohutukawa. Aka the New Zealand Christmas tree. Waiting for us, courtesy neighbour Birgit S, on…
The perfumery in the Gutenberg Center more open than usual. Turns out that some villains backed up to the service entrance the other night, jemmied open the door and helped…
The German language doesn’t really lend itself to wordplay in the way that English does, but it certainly doesn’t stop folk trying. This flower shop is called “Style and Blossoms”…
I don’t need much encouragement to visit St Stephan’s church with its seductively peaceful Chagall windows, but an unexpected and very touching invitation to Paul and Angela’s wedding yesterday made…
Klaawinnerum’s community noticeboard last weekend….
Or doubles?
Giving the lurv to the statue of St Andreas in the Town Hall Square in Klaawinnerum
My bowl, too. Our local fountain in Klaawinnerum
Yeah right….
Or maybe not. 2 blackbird chicks prematurely attempted flying lessons from the nest in the honeysuckle yesterday and ended up well away from the nest, mother blackbird following them and…
Kaffeekommune II. So popular that all the tables were taken. Perch on a wall in the sunshine on the other side of the road.
“This is somewhere near you, how are your detective skills?” asked my friend Cameron in New Zealand. Quick as a flash, I replied “Bratwurst Glöckle, Schusterstrasse/Am Brand. Pedestrian precinct between…
If you look carefully, you’ll see this (66% quartz, 34% other stuff) sandstone – sourced from a quarry in Flonheim in Rheinhessen – all over the place. Cologne cathedral Mainz…
Or “Abteistrasse” When it’s really in Venison Gulley. Or Wildgraben, as they call it around here…
Nikolce Noveski is a professional footballer, capped 58 times for Macedonia, played 347 games for Mainz05 over a period of 11 years. He’s a hard-as-nails /bites-yer-legs defender and by all…
I don’t get to go to many games of our local 1st Division football team, Mainz05. I should try harder. Someone wrote a Letter to the Editor last week, echoing…
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