3 pieces of Ribaldo, 2 (which turned out to be 4…) mussels and a scoop of chups from the Smokehouse on Mapua Wharf. A pint of California Ale and a…
An avian Dick Turpin at Mapua Wharf. Check tomorrow to see what the other gannet scoffed…. iPhone 4, by the way. And don’t say it was luck. This is a…
I don’t what it is – is it the arrival staff at the aircraft door with big smiles and saying “Welcome”. And meaning it. Or is it the light that…
Not even Not the Nelson Daily Photo yet. In the fine tradition of Petrea’s Zen Monday series over on Pasadena Daily Photo (whereby she posts an incongruous image and let’s…
All yours! I’m taking Kate‘s lead and sodding off to sunnier climes for a bit. Probably breaking all sorts of rules. Whatever.
is worth a….no, better not go there….. Seraphic avian feeding at the Gutenberg Museum
A cherub (or is it a seraph…?) serenading from a safe height at the Gutenberg Museum
The Fischergasse – as the name indicates – was in days gone by the centre of all things piscatorial in Mainz, in the same way that the Eisenturm marked the…
Paul Bonna and Sebastian Lösch ran a pop-up cafe in the Gaustrasse for 5 weeks at about this time last year and called it Kaffeekommune Eins. Hardcore espresso-based drinks by…
The local (low-tech..) version of BookCrossing, which involves Taking a book you’ve finished reading to the tram stop in Bretzenheim Putting it in the glass=fronted (and backed) cabinet Choosing one…
..you’ll be following me with great haste to the nearest emergency exit to avoid this bloody Karneval business….
Rocked on up to “La Gallerie” the other day, a very fine Italian restaurant in the Gaustrasse shadowed by St Stephan’s church and nodded to the folks at the adjoining…
…you too can be the epitome of sartorial elegance for the Rosenmontag parade on …er…. Montag.
Lena and I have been an item for close to 20 years, which is when she moved in across the road with her parents and limpeted herself to me almost…
….you’re likely to lose in one of these pokie/one-armed bandit dens of iniquity. What pokie/one-armed bandit dens of iniquity?
What would Waitangi Day be without a pav? The pavlova (named after the Russian ballet dancer Anna Pavlova) was created by a chef in Wellington in her honour on the…
I’m sorry – I can’t think of even one… Never mind. It’s happening as we speak, monopolising the newspapers and airwaves. Only another 8 days…
…(half) timbers. Do you REALLY think that these glass and concrete edifices are going to be around in 700 years like timber-framed houses with wattle and daub panels? No, me…
The aerial walkway linking Rainer Schell‘s 1961 museum with the 2000 extension
Someone throw him a lifejacket! Failing that, this is his imminent (not a happy one, I might add…) future: Hypoosmolar water affects the surface tension of alveolar surfactant, causing an…
The Määnzer Mädcher fountain outside the Maria Ward school on Mainz’s Ballplatz
Garden pots in the starting blocks, just waiting for the snow to go away, the sun to come and looking forward to being filled with homemade compohst [sic] for the…
…sinker. A new take on one of the first posts on MDP – the door of St Stephan’s church at the top of the Gaustrasse.
Cathedral roof.
The Dom from the Liebfrauenplatz
..and don’t you eat that yellow snow” Frank Zappa [Listen] Cats, actually, but the same rule applies….
St Stephan, patron saint of meteorologists deacons, headaches, horses, coffin makers, and masons, checks out the weather above the portal of the rectory of the eponymous church. Which reminds me…
The Nagelsäule (Nail Pillar) on the Liebfrauenplatz is source of constant joy and inspiration. I never tire of it.
Rudi and Kerstin Baumann have run “Zum goldenen Adler” (these days, a traditional village restaurant serving simple, good food, but at times during its 170 year history, it was the…
Knee-deep in snow at the moment and the local sparrows are looking decidedly scrawny after being placed on a zero cal diet for a few days. Went out and bought…
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