….at Caffee Moguntia’s Tin Shed On Wheels on the market in Mainz Fate brought us together. Just a bit too late, IMHO. We’d got back from Boston at 5:15…
…James Dean” said Volkmar and Rosi Nauth’s son on Wednesday. “Especially when I take a drag…”* Know the feeling. I was hobbling around on crutches after a meniscus operation a…
Uli (for Ulrike) Zawar is the owner of “Sonntagskind“, a shop that can’t make up its mind* whether it’s an espresso bar or a kiddy clothes shop. (*It doesn’t need…
No sooner do I meet Till and his mum Julia when I bump into them exactly a week later at the same place – Caffee Moguntia’s TSOW. Purely by chance,…
Bumped into Flor-Maria at Caffea Moguntia this am, sans Felipe who’s made the big move to kindergarten. The appearance of Till with his mum Julia made up for his absence,…
I first met Marg in kindergarten in Northcote, a suburb of Auckland. We’ve never really been out of touch, which makes her the person I’ve known longest. We last saw…
..supper …er…. turtle. Phoebe and Rebecca are standing on what used to be the much-loved aquarium on Mapua Wharf before an arsonist munted it just under year ago. Little survived.…
Well, I’ll be buggered! It’s Bro Paul of Auckland West fame! Not quite as coincidental as one might think, though. Having met for the first time in early 2011, again…
…next to Gillian Orange and Annette Blue. That’s what they wrote down when I asked them to emerge from anonymity for NTNDP/MDP when I photographed them at Basecamp, a serious…
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“King of the Castle” to you. Appears to live here….
I do a bit of pro bono marketing and methodology consulting for a ceramics market in Alzey and a couple of potters in Höhr-Grenzhausen Design the websites, keep them updated,…
..just how BORED I am…
…or we fell asleep texting. Either way, we were snoring. Audibly.
Marius, son of Frank and Mrs Frank the Potter certainly fits the student profile. Especially one studying philosophy and languages at Mainz University. An energy drink is “cognitive enhancement” and…
Jochen Rindt, the Mainz-born racing driver who drove under an Austrian racing licence, would have been 70 yesterday. The city’s finally woken up to the fact that they should do…
….I guess it might as well be Werder Bremen. Burgundy market in Mainz yesterday and today with one of our twin towns, Dijon. The usual champagne/truffle/wine/paté/escargots gluttony, brightened by this…
I’m sure she could do this blindfolded… zip, zap, zip and it’s done.
We’ve known Pierre Schott for ages and a day. He used to restore scrubbed pine furniture in his workshop in the old Lampenfabrik before it got all gentrified and flashed…
Another bloody feminist in the making. Rant on about being oppressed and all that crap and then expect you to open the door for her.. And clenched fist salutes will…
Having observed me thrashing along the Rheinstrasse on the trusty velocipede the other day, our young friend Rute (aka Little Miss Einstein), erstwhile culinary journalist and budding Nobel Prize winner…
Gary and Kathy Bluemel from Loudon, Tennessee. When you see a group of people with eyes as big as saucers and wearing name tags, gazing in wonderment at the sights…
Marcel Meyer’s “You Work Where I Live” project continues to fascinate me, despite the fact that his temporary gallery has closed and he’s back at university. Of all the portraits,…
A street as an art gallery. Marcel Meyer is a media design student at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz and lives in the Klarastrasse, one of the anonymous…
That’s what his mum, Flor-Maria reckons, anyway. He appears to be pretty dubious about the whole deal. Maybe it’s the fact that Mum was dragging him along to a meeting…
“I don’t think you’re doing this right. Let me just Google it to see if the mantra’s got 6 or 7 “m”s….”
…” said Grace Niklas, my little Irish friend “but I’m almost 4. And then I go to the BIG school” Growing up in Dublin with an Irish mum and…
> …said Uschi. Not surprised. First time she’s flown anywhere by herself. Meet Uschi Niklas, my mate Christoph‘s wife. She retired from her job at the University clinic in Mainz…
> I’ve known Lena since she was about 3. I took her on her first date (suitably chaperoned by Mrs jb’s niece, I hasten to add) when she was about…
> Ripping along the river the other week with the Prof on one of our heroic bike rides when we almost bowled over this trio. Prof barely dodged them and…
> Definitely not Shanghaied in Shanghai. Only took 3 years, 2 months, 19 days, 20 hours and 33 minutes. This is Bat (aka Bettina) of 50 Grad fame who lives/d…
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