…is exactly NOT what I’m feeling right now. Norovirus is practical confirmation of Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion. I’d recommend washing your collective hands and disinfecting your keyboards after reading…
…the same as “ice fishing”? A couple more days of this and I might be able to take advantage of the linguistic nuances…
More like ” I got you, babe”. Success story for a dating website while the Minthe crane sits there and mopes, wondering why it’s not at all attractive to the…
Until last week, that is. Power-washers and sandblasters took care of it. Until next time, that is…
Either that or pigeons are kamikazi-ing themselves against this building in the Augustinerstrasse Which would suit me fine, if I’m honest
..24 (?) cylinders. Definitely NQM, but my links to Höhr-Grenzhausen couldn’t be described as tenuous. This is the “Kannofen”, a cross-fired salt glaze kiln that lay dormant for 50 years…
…around the edges. Old stuff in the Altstadt
My LA journalist friend asked me whether Mainz’s streets would have been cobbled in the 1930s. The 1930s?! How about….last week?
I’ve been doing some research for a journalist friend in Los Angeles over the past few months and it’s taken me to some interesting places. The depths of ancestry.com, for…
When a city’s well over 2000 years old, you’re likely to find a fair bit of Bryophyta clinging to surfaces. Call it patina…..
…Give the dog a bone, This old man came rolling home. “True love” says the graffiti artist. Here’s a good one: A frog goes into a bank and approaches the…
.. to Nowhere…er… with no name. Things move slowly in Mainz. The imaginatively named “Railway Bridge” turned 150 at the end of last year and they STILL haven’t got around…
These people just don’t give up! Waiting for Ms jb the other day outside a department store and one of the myriad parade badge touts turns up, positions himself next…
Serious stuff in 1988. This one’s waist-height for me. Most (i.e vertically-challenged)people would need to unpack their water-wings…
..high water. You would have got your feet wet (just) back in 1955 and 1963 on the path that follows the Rhine down to Weisenau. Ankle-height
OK. “Plunder” is the Teutonic equivalent of a Danish pastry. Safe to let your daughters out, then.
A winter sky through winter trees
Either the centre of the Universe or circling the drain. Take your pick…..
If it wasn’t the French, it was the Austrians. Or the Swedes. Or the Germans. This story goes back to the 30 Year War (1618-1648) and before. The Swedes turned…
…an encore. New Year’s concert in the cathedral yesterday evening, with the brass ensemble and organist playing Bach, Frescobaldi, Grieg et al. Quite excellent. So excellent, in fact, that they…
Seriously, what can beat this? A summer’s day out on the bike and not imagining in my WILDEST DREAMS that Mainz 05, our local team, would end the year at…
You’re not meant to write them down! Pauline at Sonntagskind
I’m stuck. Gave up smoking years ago, my bmi’s bordering on “underweight” and if you think I’m going to do without the IPA’s from the Maine Brewing Company et al…
…but this is just so typically Mainz. Perennially bankrupt ( Markus Würz, my young historian friend, tells me that it’s been that way since the Middle Ages…) and fairly clueless.…
..to give them the benefit of the doubt. I’m going to say that their handwriting is worse than mine and that the salami they’re selling on the Christmas market doesn’t…
Well, it never RAINS there, for a start, but even if anyone DARED to step on a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they’d have someone out there with…
…without cherubims (just learned – “cherabim” is already the plural) and seraphims… Tastefully Meenzerisch
…the “Nacht” bit comes later. Have a good one. And be NICE to each other….
Simple elegance at Zum Goldenen Engel in Flonheim But Fred Dagg said it best. Traditional Air
Why does it remind me of this?
Mainz Daily Photo 