“94 today” says the display on the commuter highway close to Bingen. Don’t know why it thinks that – birthday was in July and I’m not *quite* that chronologically gifted.…
A bit NQM, but anyway… Zipped down to a plant market in Maikammer, around 90km south to help my mate Frank the Potter to pack up his kit and visited…
…said Friederike Lauteren (1818–1884) the other week during a garden tour of the Mathildengarten in Nierstein. No, not a voice from the grave, but that of Barbara Reif who effortlessly…
Bunch of sticks in the mud. No sense of humour. No plays on words. No. Wait Here’s a poster for a Haydn (benefit for a good cause, make a donation)concert…
Or 1950, for that matter? (I was mostly still unaware of what was going on, so I can’t help) But if you were George Washington, you’d be giving the first…
Two extremes? That would be work and home and that’s what “Pendler” means in German – oscillating between the two. Pendulus Latin From pendeō (“I hang”) + -ulus. hanging, hanging…
..in 1817 William Turner 1775-1851 English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colouring, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings. There’s a William Turner Route, a…
A matter of perspective, of course. The Rheingau vineyards from the vantage point of the sculpture park on the Bingen side of the Rhine. VW bus included…
Depends on one’s perspective, of course.. Closer-upperery, it’s possibly quite large… VW bus in the Roseneck vineyard opposite Bingen. (90 minutes/30km on the bike, so it still counts as Mainz.…
…what you don’t measure. The classic quality management mantra that I learned implementing (in a previous life…) QM/ISO9001 for the intercontinental network of a major logistics airline. Doesn’t apply here,…
Merck, a significantly large life sciences conglomerate, has its own Formula 1 team and its own philharmonic orchestra which (in a truncated form) performed a concert yesterday afternoon at the…
Back in July (on a day as grey as yesterday. But not as cold…) I was taking a break in Frei-Weinheim at the Ingelheim-Oestrich-Winkel ferry ramp. Just over 20km from…
…..the weirds metrognomes get going…. You really can’t make this shit up. Merck, the mega life science outfit in Darmstadt has its own philharmonic orchestra and an annual event is…
Boehringer, the life science people in Ingelheim have supported this annual exhibition in the old town hall for 65 years.. They’re mostly focussed on a single artist (click on the…
Bike path, squeezed between the Opel factory and the Main, Barge. Twin-engined something on finals to 07L. About a 1/4 way through an 85km (acoustic) bike trip.
..we all scream for ice-cream. The queue (“line” for the colonials..) at Piccin in NQM Nieder-Olm stretched right around the building last week…
Bro Paul of Auckland-West fame (and too good a photographer not to resurrect his site) reminded me today that I should by rights be in New Zealand. Thanks for that,…
At this rate, guest photographer Ute Matschke is going to be permanent staff… This wonderful landscape shot would have been ideal for yesterday’s Monthly Theme Day, but I figured that…
“I’ll snuffle anyway” Sid at work. Guest photog: Ute Matschke
…better than I can. (That’s “Fall” for the colonials…) My friend (and client, but more friend than client..) Ute Matschke took this with a smartphone. Which just proves that it’s…
Invitation popped up in the mail the other week to the 10 year celebration of a cluster of ceramic artists’ studios in Höhr-Grenzhausen, a hop, skip and jump down the…
Popped in to see favourite website clients (and friends) Maria and Ute in Höhr-Grenzhausen on Monday (up there to talk to a new client) and they were over the moon.…
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…
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”…
If you’ve got vineyards in Appenheim’s Hundertgulden block, you’d be a happy vintner. Gets all day sun, has the right mineral content, drains well and all you have to do…
Chalk on slate. Online shop. Talk about diametrically opposed….
…bridge. If this keeps going, we’ll soon be hiring structural engineers to check bridge integrity.. I’m playing it safe. I’m taking the ferry….
Back in the day, Mainz used to have in exces of 50 breweries. We’re now down to 2 or 3. Good thing we’ve got Bavaria just down the road, then…
The storm begins; poor wretch, That for thy mother’s fault art thus exposed To loss and what may follow! Weep I cannot, But my heart bleeds; and most accursed am…
One of Shakespeare’s most famous stage directions: “Exit, pursued by a bear.” “The Winter’s Tale” as performed by Zettels Theater in the Geromont vineyard’s courtyard the other week Antigonus. Come,…
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