>And that’s it until next year, folks…. Today marks the start of Lent. Cheer up – it’s only 6 weeks and a bit to Easter.

>Mainz has a First Division soccer team. Not bad for a city with a population of just under 200,000. And at every home game, you’ll see the stadium jam-packed with…

>Carnival entertainment in Mainz ranges from the innocent to the seriously deranged. Guildo Horn and the Orthopaedic Stockings is a prime example of the latter – an aging, significantly untalented…

>Mum, Dad and Junior…. In the fields between Hechtsheim and Ebersheim

>If there’s one thing they take seriously in Mainz, it’s Fassenacht – the run-up to Lent. They take it so seriously that it starts in November (11:11 am on 11/11……)…