..er…crane my neck to see the top of the boom. Heavy-lifting in Klaawinnerum
Or- “Get well soon” as they say around these parts. Which is what you’ll hear when you visit Monika Schmitt’s Andreas Apotheke (Andreas Pharmacy, named after St Andrew, the patron…
This’ll get the Parental filters going….. I’ve been friends with Kalle Sröckle for ages and a day, Ms jb closer to his wife for almost as long since she offered…
Looking over Rheinhessen’s vineyards towards renewable power generation on the distant ridge. Ugly as shit, but hey, they’re subsidised….
Wilhelm Holzamer, novelist, librarian to Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse, Paris correspondent for a number of German newspapers, Nieder-Olmer gets his own monument.
It took the council a while (and they’ve probably forgotten whose idea it was in the first place anyway), but they’ve certainly got cracking in the beautification department, with just…
..homesickness. A sly-grogging joint out in the fields. Seems like a good enough hide-out away from the wimmen…..
Now, I’m not for the Nanny State, with bureaucrats telling you what you can and can’t do at their whim (Friends are renovating a 1930s cottage in New Zealand. It’s…
The characters: Ferdinand – King of Navarre Lord Berowne – attending on the King (also spelt Biron) Lord Longaville – attending on the King (also spelt Longueville) Lord Dumaine –…
Flash new sign at our entrance to the village.
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…
Good works at work in Klein-Winternheim. Local folk get together to organise a flea market in the cycle club’s winter quarters with the proceeds (€5k this time around) going to…
I find myself quite powerless to stop taking photographs of wind turbines on wind-less mornings…
The only thing missing is “U”… A truncated “Bingen am Rhein” logo
The confluence of the Nahe and Rhine at Bingen
> “Portobello” is a small Italian restaurant run by Giovanni and Barbara Jelapi in Nieder Ober-Olm, a neighbouring village. They opened about 18 years ago and we’ve seen their…
> Had to feel sorry for this guy. It was like watching someone herd cats. “No, not YOU… YOU… no, the other group. Now put your hands in the air…
> petunia sunflower in an onion sugar beet patch. The original over here
> Now you see ’em. Now you don’t. Lydia Bugner has a bell-push next to her asparagus garage. It’s the “Asparagus bell” during the season. When the asparagus is finished,…
> ….Summer Wine Bugner asparagus. Lydia Bugner, our asparagus lady, is quitting. Granted – it’s a bugger of a job. You’re up at stupid o’clock every morning, it’s back-breaking work,…
> …while Heiko contemplates his role as Hercules for the next 7 years, the rest of the team opened up the family courtyard for the Open Gardens thingie. They USED…
> Heiko Dettweiller has obviously not heard of the fifth of Hercules’ 12 labours. To wit: cleaning the Augean stables within a single day. Augeas, one of the Argonauts, had…
> Ornamental cherry (prunus avanacluia) at the top of its game outide the kitchen window. (And yes, the heart was MY idea. Yeah right…) Shameless commercialism: here’s my mate Wisely…
> You really have to feel sorry for St. Andreas, the patron saint of the RC church in Klaawinnerum. All he REALLY wants to do is to sit on his…
> This is a “Kuhkapelle” or “cow chapel”, a groin-vaulted barn and a fairly common feature of farms in the region. The Romans (of course) had the idea first …
> Looking over the fields in Ober-Olm to the vineyards that disappear down the hill towards the village. -10ºC last night, more snow at the weekend. Lots of it.
Reinhilde Roth (on the right, with her sister Christine) runs the eponymous farm shop in the village. She started out with a tiny corner of her parents’ farmhouse, selling only…
> The new subdivision at the top of the hill isn’t going quite as smoothly as folk had hoped. Great rush to be placed on the waiting list, followed…
> Plus some tasteful Christmas decorations and the local version of Jack the Ripper. lurking in the shadows. And just to prove how metropolitan we are – a traffic light!
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