“Nur aan Euro” The market in Mainz is a fairly sedate affair – not much above a low murmur (unless it’s the monthly wine hoolie, when it can get a…
The Feldbergschule on the Feldbergplatz is one of those massively forbidding buildings that have survived the onslaughts of bombers and city planners and continue to dominate their surroundings. Built in…
If you’re short of the folding stuff, this is likely where you’ll spend your vacation. In Balkonien, Balkon being German for “balcony”. Cuts down on jet-lag, that’s for sure…
Paul Bonna’s coffee roaster, jb Kaffee in deepest Bavaria, produced a special limited edition blend to celebrate the recent matrimonials. Honeymoon Espresso and the small print says: angela & paul…
One and a half bubbles out of plumb? Silly as a 10 bob watch? Not the sharpest knife in the drawer? Or dumb as a bag of hammers? That’s what…
Why do I always have problems with the Allgemeine Zeitung, our local rag? A couple of years back, they lifted an image from this post and used it in their…
The Nasengässchen (Nose Alley) links Leichhof (the site of the original church cemetery, Leiche meaning corpse) and Grebenstrasse (possibly originating from Graben, a ditch) in the Altstadt. There are heaps…
The land adjacent to the rivulet that is now the Gonsbach has been flooded and enriched with alluvial soil ever since this region went from being a sub-tropical swamp to…
The Germans are quite good at euphemisms. not to mention double entendres. The university’s Botanic Garden Summer Festival featured a number of stands selling plants suited to specific conditions –…
They don’t call this place Mayence for nothing. Any chance of having a good time is grabbed with both hands. One hand, actually. You need the other hand to hang…
Maria Meyer and Ute Matschke are among my favourite potters. I don’t buy a lot of their work – their target market is more families with kiddies – , but…
The Burgundermarkt on the Gutenbergplatz is a bi-annual and much anticipated event where small producers from Mainz’s twin town of Dijon set up their stands and sell everything from fresh…
This lady appears to be geographically and temporally confused. She’s in the Botanical Gardens at Mainz University on a Sunday and she’s waiting for Anthropology, an American chain of stores…
…to San Francisco…the Mainz University Botanical Garden Summer Fete, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair…” Diana, Lotte and Tabea took Scott McKenzie’s advice and availed themselves of…
Boehringer is a major life science corporation based in Ingelheim, just around the corner – 22km, under an hour oN the bike – from here. A major employer in the…
Visited friends and potters of renown Michael Salzer and Beate Thiesmeyer yesterday in their studio in the hills above the Rhine. Got talking to Michael about techniques and he took…
Actinidia deliciosa, aka Chinese gooseberry or kiwifruit, feeling very much at home in Dätwl’s vineyard courtyard in Wintersheim
N’Eis, the excellent ice-cream outfit on the Gartenfeldplatz in the Neustadt is renowned for its queues which frequently reached halfway down the block. Once you finally get in, you’re torn…
….if not innernationl [sic] We have Corsican mint, California poppies, Australian daisies and Greek yogurt. Not to mention Iceland poppies….
…..Grade 1 through 5. Fresh out of the ground. Could have nicked it. Didn’t. Grown under foil, you see….
Café rebranding in the Augustinerstrasse. Used to be Café Lavazza. Naff espresso, but 2 nice Golden Retrievers and the location’s great. It’s now Caffè Stivale – still a great location,…
This is the asparageous equivalent of battery chickens – cover your asparagus mounds with plastic (black on one side to warm them up, white to cool them down) and sell…
Not that much of a stranger if you’re from New Zealand, actually. Metrosideros thomasii – pohutukawa. Aka the New Zealand Christmas tree. Waiting for us, courtesy neighbour Birgit S, on…
The perfumery in the Gutenberg Center more open than usual. Turns out that some villains backed up to the service entrance the other night, jemmied open the door and helped…
…but not off topic. In Frankfurt (which STILL doesn’t have a DP…) the other day and was taken by strips of fabric on the phalanx of plane trees lining the…
The German language doesn’t really lend itself to wordplay in the way that English does, but it certainly doesn’t stop folk trying. This flower shop is called “Style and Blossoms”…
I don’t need much encouragement to visit St Stephan’s church with its seductively peaceful Chagall windows, but an unexpected and very touching invitation to Paul and Angela’s wedding yesterday made…
Klaawinnerum’s community noticeboard last weekend….
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