We’re perched up here at 180m ASL and it’s something I’m quite happy about at the moment with the way things are developing down in the flatlands. Guest photog and…
After 2 weeks of abstinence (the Provence is very nice, but you can get really naff coffee. Even if they DO run out and get you pain au chocolat…) so…
Don’t see anything as flash as this in Mainz very often. The outdoor seating area belonging to Gerti’s Saftladen (juice bar – freshly squeezed juices, smoothies and salads) in the…
The Green Party has – on occasion – some fairly good ideas. (Some fairly loopy ones too: Don’t bother fixing potholes, just lower the speed limit….) The city councilor with…
…but at the moment I just seem to run out of thyme time…
There’s an excellent article in the current issue of Intelligent Life about Stolpersteine (“stumbling stones”) – brass plates set into pavements around Germany (and in some other European countries) to…
I just hate throwing (useful) stuff out. You need to clip box hedges to keep them in shape and every clipping with some hardwood on it is a potential box…
….(and I promise to return Mayence real soon Julie….) This is the Restaurant de la Gare de Bonnieux. 3 course lunch with a glass of wine will run you €15.…
I mean, I know there’s the scenery and the wine and the food, but Nathalie who runs Avignon in Photos is also a pretty good reason to visit Provence. We…
A compost (pronounced “compohst” in Americanese) heap is a thing of true beauty. We have 3. One that’s active – sling in any organic matter from the kitchen, grass clippings,…
Ou homard. Not quite sure. MDP’s on vacation for a couple of weeks and – seeing as how posting from the road is frowned upon – this’ll be it until…
The building that houses the “Löwen Apotheke” (Lion Pharmacy) has been around since 1568 and in this possie (with a brief relocation around the corner in the Schusterstrasse due to…
“Who’s there?” “Lilac” “Lilac who?” “Lilac anything if someone asks your age….”
People in Lederhosen and braces embroidered with Edelweiss on the market the other day. Definitely not locals…
After the prolonged winter, we’ve had a good mix of warmth and rain to get the vegetation going. Asparagus – as rare as hens’ teeth and expensive as anything until…
No need for water diviners around here – just dig down 80 metres, then 1.1 metres to the left and then another 6.6 metres and you’re there…
“Mum said that if I keep sucking my thumb, it’ll disappear. She didn’t say anything about it turning BLUE….”
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…
…there’s a way. Reusable shopping bags from the ever-excellent Shakespeare & So in the Gaustrasse. True story: Ms jb’s English is so excellent, because her mother (would have been her…
Spring fever getting you down? Can’t be feeling as faded as these 2, I’m sure. Mind you, you’re not a couple of hundred years old….. Sandstone plaque at St Stephans.
Gudrun Klag is one of the flower ladies on the market in Mainz, selling bulk blossoms but also bound bunches. She has a consistent seasonal theme – Mainzer Frühling in…
…except bad legislation” Kinky Friedman, the original “Texas Jewboy”, musician, author, politician (ran for Governor in Texas in 2006 – got 13% in a 6 candidate race – and running…
This is like walking through a crowd and hearing snatches of conversation. This graffiti took me straight back to a 30 year old lyric Sort of.
Frank Jung learned potting as a apprentice production thrower in a factory in Höhr-Grenzhausen, one of the centres of ceramics in Germany, First, you do menial tasks (clean up after…
But somewhere else, if you don’t mind… “Smokers don’t die of cancer – they freeze to death in front of the pub” Seen at the Bürgerhof in Gonsenheim
Gonsenheim’s one of the flasher suburbs of Mainz – wide main drag lined with a significant number of fine older buildings (well, not REALLY old..) and good shops, some elegant…
..would smell as rusty. Detail on the Maler Becker school wall in Gonsenheim.
An Avanacluia officinalis struggling against the weather.
Stunningly modern new organ at St Stephans, Windows by Chagall.
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