Giving the lurv to the statue of St Andreas in the Town Hall Square in Klaawinnerum
My bowl, too. Our local fountain in Klaawinnerum
Yeah right….
Or maybe not. 2 blackbird chicks prematurely attempted flying lessons from the nest in the honeysuckle yesterday and ended up well away from the nest, mother blackbird following them and…
Kaffeekommune II. So popular that all the tables were taken. Perch on a wall in the sunshine on the other side of the road.
“This is somewhere near you, how are your detective skills?” asked my friend Cameron in New Zealand. Quick as a flash, I replied “Bratwurst Glöckle, Schusterstrasse/Am Brand. Pedestrian precinct between…
If you look carefully, you’ll see this (66% quartz, 34% other stuff) sandstone – sourced from a quarry in Flonheim in Rheinhessen – all over the place. Cologne cathedral Mainz…
If you’ve got vineyards in Appenheim’s Hundertgulden block, you’d be a happy vintner. Gets all day sun, has the right mineral content, drains well and all you have to do…
Or “Abteistrasse” When it’s really in Venison Gulley. Or Wildgraben, as they call it around here…
Nikolce Noveski is a professional footballer, capped 58 times for Macedonia, played 347 games for Mainz05 over a period of 11 years. He’s a hard-as-nails /bites-yer-legs defender and by all…
I don’t get to go to many games of our local 1st Division football team, Mainz05. I should try harder. Someone wrote a Letter to the Editor last week, echoing…
Mainz 05. Home game. Park the car in Bretzenheim Walk through the fields.
“Why’s that man lying down on the ground…?” “He’s having a heart attack, dear. Leave him alone – he’ll be dead in a minute…” Gonso market.
The Maler Becker school in Gonso has bike racks. AND scooter racks. Thinks: If they’re the IN THING, I must investigate
Aftershock in Nepal, reported by the Allgemeine Zeitung, a gift and “The entire film in 5 seconds”, a graphic depiction of the decisive moments of 150 films. Seen at Café…
Our neat young neighbours, Annika and Andi, turned up the other week with Thekla, the sweetest of babies. Not wishing to be outdone, the Asio otus pair nesting in their…
Chalk on slate. Online shop. Talk about diametrically opposed….
…bridge. If this keeps going, we’ll soon be hiring structural engineers to check bridge integrity.. I’m playing it safe. I’m taking the ferry….
Aspiring firefighters in Mombach. (Attending to a parched park…)
The consequences of neglecting to stick a “No Junk Mail” sign on your mailbox
Er …”Eye, Captain” Don’t see many artificial eye artisans these days, but they still exist. In fact (and this really IS a true story…), Dave, a guy I used to…
Mainz is fairly well set up for public transport. You can take a 51 tram in Hechtsheim, thrash down the middle of the Rheinhessenstrasse to the main station and then…
I had no idea of the time…” Neither does the Gasthaus zum Bürgerhof in Gonso…
….celebrates its 1st birthday in its new location in the Breidenbacherstrasse and serves IPA to mark the occasion, you know why it’s your favourite espresso bar/ (Prefer the espresso –…
Who’s there? Lilac. Lilac who? Lilac anything if someone asks your age
Parked outside Heinrich’s Die Wirtschaft up around the Kästrich. If you’ve done the Coast to Coast even once, you can be rightfully proud of yourself. It’s 243km from the West…
Anemones from a different perspective
I bought The Beatles’ “White Album” in December 1968 (it was released in late November in the UK, 3 days later in the US, took a while to get down…
You’re driving down the Emmerich-Josef-Strasse in Mainz. These signs say: If you turn left into Walpodenstrasse, you’ll hit a dead end. (True) You can’t turn right into Breidenbacherstrasse (one way)…
Blue skies. Chestnut tree. Answers on a €500 bill, please. Solution after the break ———————————————————————————————————— As far as I’m concerned… A draft wheat beer A Brezel A Weisswurst with sweet…
Which is – I suppose – how the pansy got its German name: little stepmother (Steifmütterchen) I kid you not. Look it up if you don’t belive me…
Mainz Daily Photo 