Through accidents of birth and abduction, resulting in forced emigration at an early age, I have 2 passports. The UK side of the family dates back to the 1600s, so…
Time was, I had a motorbike. Quite fancied myself as the roadracer back then, reinforced by the praise of a traffic cop who surmised that I’d been breaking the speed…
Not a spare chair to be found at the Playhouse Café and Theatre in Mapua last night for The Eastern’s gig, Except – being Mapua which is “country” (as in…
The Määnzer Mädcher fountain outside the Maria Ward school on Mainz’s Ballplatz
Seriously, what can beat this? A summer’s day out on the bike and not imagining in my WILDEST DREAMS that Mainz 05, our local team, would end the year at…
I do take this privacy stuff quite seriously and I’ve asked jb to respect my concerns in that matter and not divulge my name. I’m just a regular street really…
So what’s a letter between friends…? (Somewhere between Wells and York)
City Daily Photo, the website that kicked this whole thing off, got comprehensively hacked a while back and doesn’t look like re-emerging anytime soon. Apparently there’s a Facebook page that’s…
06131. The only number you need to know. Also Newington CT’s zip code. If you’re interested.
Mainz’s very own industrial monument, the Alte Ziegelei in Bretzenheim. A field kiln* was established close to a clay quarry in the fields outside Bretzenheim in the late 19th C…
When our best friends/surrogate parents Isla and Bill visited us in Germany, Bill couldn’t get over how DEAD German villages were/still are around mid-day. We’d drive through a village and…
Up until the 1960s, most villages around here had a Backhaus, a communal bakery that was fired up weekly and where you took the loaves that you’d prepared at home…
In my defence, I plead clumsiness and a lack of perserverence. Post nicely (TL;DR) written, photo selected, publish. Out comes a fragment of the last sentence. Sod it This’ll have…
The Boat People post last month had people confused about the strange grey UFO- like objects on the stand next to the Bluemels. I can reveal that their true (and…
Perspective noun \pər-ˈspek-tiv\ Middle English perspectyf, from Latin perspectus, past participle of perspicere to look through, from per- through + specere to look A view of the Rathaus and Andreu…
Sparrowsfart (6:49 a.m.), lying on my stomach in the middle of the Cathedral Square, taking a photograph of a postcard propped up against my wallet. Little wonder that people came…
“Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT I don’t care about spots on my apples lemons, Leave me the birds and the bees – please” (Big yellow taxi,…
> The 2010 vintage. Roll on next year…. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
> You say “tomayto” “mailbox”, we say “tomahto” “letterbox” OK, so technically it’s a typecase, but if you can put letters in it and it’s a box, then it’s a…
> …’edges. Working in the UK in the early 1970s introduced me to Estuary English with its wide variates of h-dropping and h-adding, not to mention the fricatives and affricates…
> Pretty much anywhere that serves beer. Or wine. Anything with a few rpms Even better if they make it on the premises. Goldener Engel brewery in NQN Ingelheim. A…
> Good thing it’s winter. Thinks: Even if the water WERE turned on, it would have frozen to ice, so there’s no danger of my getting wet… So a good…
> Drum roll. Ladies and Gennlemen – the Runner Up Never actually published and not even Mainz, but given my terminal case of peripateticism I’m sure you’ll forgive me. The…
> Just HAS to be this one of Semira e Alessandro from August. (Semira liked it so much that she knocks 10% off the bill these days) For more cuddles…
> About thyme it stopped snowing, if you ask me….. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants
> Mainz is well served by public transport. 3 tram routes (this is the #51 thrashing up the Gaustrasse towards Hechtheim), untold bus routes (including #99, the Disko-Express which transports…
> Open Air Market. Thanks a bunch. Of the 20,000+ digital images I’ve got stored on iPhoto, in excess of 19,500 (I think..)are of the market in Mainz. Lazy as…
> Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU Eric, for the correct spelling of “colour”….. Trivial Pursuit claims that the colour combination with the highest contrast (apart from black and white)…
> Thinks (reflects?): Either a sunset or a 50 megaton nucular thingie taking out Wiesbaden. Either way. Mainz’s soon-to-be-relocated container port The usual gang’s along for the trip – click…
> Visit enough art museums and you can start to empathise with this fridge magnet from Sticky Jam, a funky design outfit from Hamburg: “Is that art or can we…
> This was just TOO tempting. I couldn’t resist. It’ll doubtless get me blacklisted. An Italian’s studying the plans of his new house with the interior designer. “I wanna a…
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