Scratch a German and you’ll likely find a nature lover hidden inside that humourless exoskeleton. Proof of this are the nesting structures for storks they’ve set up all over the…
…of winter cycling. Somewhere down there is a concrete farm road. Somewhere…
…Orbis.Well, not quite accurate – it’s actually Urbi et Orbi (“to the city and to the world”) – and Orbis, a small town in the Palatinate with a population of…
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…
Actinidia deliciosa, aka Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, feeling very much at home in Dätwl’s vineyard courtyard in Wintersheim
…marks the spot. The Kulturufer (Culture Foreshore) in NQM Bingen is a highly successful conversion from a dire railway shunting yard to the stunning location for the State Horticultural Show…
At about the 19km mark of today’s ride, I was zipping up a fairly easy rise (about 4%) on ther bike path at a good clip (18km/h) and caught up…
Accepted that railway stations tend not to be the best visiting card for a city/town/hamlet (it’s almost like you’re being mooned…), but the further one ventures out into the countryside…
If it wasn’t for iPhoto’s “Faces” function, I would never have noticed the poor soul caught in the maelstrom at Bad-Kreuznach’s weir pool. I seem to recall hearing some yelling,…
In my spare time (and as a favour to these 2, although I charge other people), I set up web presences for artists. Ute Matschke (l) and Maria Meyer (r)…
Rocked on over to The Fat Tui at Marahau the other week with Steve and Robin Fullmer. (Steve asks “Now, do you want to go the inneresting way or the…
My friend Alan Houghton (and married to my surrogate kid sister, Robby) is the proud owner of Raindance, a 30′ wood hulled cabin cruiser built in 1928. We went for…
Or TL;DR Blame it on the ADHD sufferers (see yesterday’s comments…). Work it out yourselves.
The things you stumble across in the country. Honesty box stand on the cycle track between Mommenheim and Harxheim with all sorts of interesting stuff. Bog standard fruit jellies,…
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