€4/$5 worth from N’Eis on the Gartenfeldplatz. Can you be a regular after just being there once? I think so…..
“Well, dear, it’s either the 10mm lens that that nice man’s using or the fact that you’ve been eating too much icecream from N’Eis, the new icecream parlour on the…
..to go to McDonalds or its ilk, but seeing what they’re doing in Mainz gets them a gold star. For sure. See the place at the back, nestled among the…
….that’s not repeatable in polite company i.e. here, but it always springs to mind when I see a canoe. Two jokes, actually. I thought of him when I was cruising…
…our daily Fragaria vesca. Aka wild strawberry, woodland strawberry, Alpine strawberry, European strawberry, or fraises des bois. Some plants just TURNED UP unannounced in the flower/herb bed next to the…
…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…
The local city monthly “Der Mainzer” runs a monthly photo competition sponsored by Saturn, a big box consumer electronics outfit. Did quite well a couple of years back with this…
Looking at the goldsmith across the road from Kaffeekommunezwei, I was quietly wishing that my Italian was a bit better. Like” what’s a “Heib”? “Che cosa è una Heib?” I thought.…
“Cleanliness is next to godliness” say (supposedly) ancient Hebrew writings. Highly applicable to making good espresso. When you’ve just blasted (almost) boiling water at high pressure through finely ground coffee…
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…
The Markthäuser on the Cathedral square. You just can’t avoid them. They either house the best record store in Mainz (used to any way) or they’re being knocked down and…
Markus Wehrle (pictured) and Kai Tietze (with a little help from their friends) have turned a direly neglected and unbelievably scruffy building in the Gaustrasse into “Lönneberga“, a “café for…
Mere metres from the spot where we rendezvoused with Bro Paul last year in August, I stumbled over (nothing broken, but thanks for asking…) this rubbish bin/trash can in Bad-Kreuznach’s…
Those altostratus-cirro-cumulonimbi certainly make the picture, don’t you think…?
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…….
If it wasn’t for iPhoto’s “Faces” function, I would never have noticed the poor soul caught in the maelstrom at Bad-Kreuznach’s weir pool. I seem to recall hearing some yelling,…
…and see us sometime. Cartier-Bresson stuff – no tweaking and certainly no pot of red paint to brighten things up.
Can’t say that Mainz doesn’t do a good job with brand management. More city crests than you can shake a stick at….
This Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) chick took a breather on our garden furniture, much to the dismay of Mother who was chirping away and giving child a hurry-along. Not surprising,…
The cluster around one of our fruit and vege stands on the market – we have one for figs, red peppers and the herbs we don’t have in the garden,…
Rocked down to an exhibition at Galerie Metzger in Johannesburg on the weekend…er…Johannesberg, about an hour’s drive. Excellent gallery, currently featuring some very good ceramics from some artists we know…
Rocking through Gonsenheim on Sunday afternoon when a gentlemen in white (with a veil, no less…) caught my attention. That and a small crowd. At a safe distance on the…
Local stuff. And cheap – after the long wait, everything’s come onto the market at the same time. Suits me…
…input goes to infinity.” The Second Rule of Project Management. (The first is “Scope, Time and Cost – choose 2 to optimise, you can’t optimise all 3”) 17:00 yesterday afternoon.…
….green. Winter and spring cereals in the fields between Klein-Winternheim and Marienborn
“Uns schickt der Himmel – 72-Stunden-Aktion des BDKJ” is just the coolest idea. The BDKJ [Federation of German Catholic Youth] with its 650,000 members does a lot of good deeds.…
….said the princess “I’ve just lost a crown….”
Cress (Lepidium sativum), aka mustard and cress, garden pepper cress, pepper grass, pepperwort or poor person’s pepper. Line a flat dish with paper towels, saturate with water, sprinkle cress seeds…
…..I ain’t lion. I am, actually – standing guard over the portal of the eponymous pharmacy on the market
MediaMarkt, a big-box consumer/electronics store, frequently has stunningly effective marketing campaigns, mostly aimed at grabbing market share. The current one: Buy something – anything – and front up at the…
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