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…
…sleep in your car. Motorway rest area A61
Article in the local newspaper about this Hindenburg-type disaster the other week. Hildegard Eckert, eyewitness: “I was sitting at the Piccin icecream parlour in Nieder-Olm when the sky darkened, the…
Not REALLY early, but early enough to catch a nice light bathing the Rhine. Note the helicopter: there’s a very virulent Pirate Party getting revved up for the upcoming election…
At least he made the trains run on time* You really couldn’t make this up. Mainz station is served by a metro-like S-Bahn between Wiesbaden, Mainz, Frankfurt and beyond, 440…
It was my birthday a couple of days back. This turned up outside the house the following day. Better late than never, I suppose. (They could have left the keys…
…intentionally blurred images, I held the camera (well, iPhone….) against the car window as Ms jb thrashed along the Autobahn at death-defying speeds. His last major sale was $34m for…
…if you’re a Rent-a-Bike. You hang around all day, waiting for someone to pay their €0.50 for 30 minutes and take you for a ride somewhere through Mainz and then…
I stumbled over this very tired looking steamroller at the side of the road in Hechtsheim. Made in the late 1930’s by Henschel for Heinrich Zinggreber of Eschwege, a company…
200m before the turn-off and we’re STILL going so fast (near-relatavistic…) that I’m experiencing Doppler shift. I’ll drive next time…….
Is this something like “Plug and play” or have I got things mixed up again. As far as I can work out from the picture, you drive out to one…
….er….Ice on a cold Saab roof.
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…
.. to Nowhere…er… with no name. Things move slowly in Mainz. The imaginatively named “Railway Bridge” turned 150 at the end of last year and they STILL haven’t got around…
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…
Bernd Meyer-Zawar is Mainz’s Bike Czar and husband of Uli Zawar of “Sonntagskind” fame. He came perambulating across the market the other day towards the Tin Shed On Wheels and…
The only explanation that I have for a Mainz this deserted at 8:40 am on a Saturday morning is that we woke everyone up as we drifted in from Boston…
…under an autobahn flyover. Royalty on the left doesn’t look utterly convinced that it’s going to hold…
Used to be, anyway. If you want to cross the Rhine anywhere between Wiesbaden and Koblenz ( a good hour’s drive) , you’re stuck with using ferries. Ferry operators are…
Buoy, oh buoy was it calm on the Main the other day….
PDA*s on the lenticularly-trussed railway bridge across the Rhine. There are so many of these darn things attached to the fence that the bridge is taking on a significant list…
Late in the day on the Rhine
Who says these Germans don’t have a sense of humour or wit? “Einzigartig” Means “Unique” If you’re introducing a …um…revolutionary bike hire concept, why not brand it “Mainzigartig Mobil”? You’ll…
A whole barge-load of amethysts? And no guards? Seen at the quayside in Bingen
Or “The Bridge to Nowhere”. Mainz’s yacht harbour is tucked off to the south of the city, opposite the confluence of the Main and the Rhine. Not many floating gin…
..until you get to the other side. Fat chance of that. Pay your €2.50 or your bike’s at the bottom of the Rhine and you’re heading for Davy Jones’s locker…
Bugger. Where the road disappear to…?
Lighter-load of scrap metal at the harbour in Mainz
Chinese captain, operating under a French flag. Seen at km23 on a 70km bike tour along the Rhine
Or lanes. I feared the worst when the grinder came along a couple of weeks ago and skimmed off the bike lane markings on my direct route into the Fumée…
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