Not that we have constant Arctic-level temperatures here, but there’s a plethora of ice-skating rinks that spring up at around this time of year and none more central than the…
…couldn’t agree more. Oh. “FOLK….” As in folk songs. So that’s OK, then….
3 down, 1 to go……
Santa by Beate Thiesmeyer, pyromania by Ms jb
Having been behaving myself (by my standards anyway) recently, I got taken out for dinner to the Goldenen Engel in Flonheim the other night. Small restaurant in a renovated house…
The 2012 Craftsmens Guild Christmas Market in the atrium of the Chamber of Trade building. (Is it REALLY 5 years since I last visited…?
genealogy research takes you. The new (1881) Jewish cemetery in Mainz-Zahlbach.
And then there two…….
Bribery or appreciation? Probably the latter. One of Ms. jb’s tenants (a Portuguese family) at the Vertical Village that she manages in Gonsenheim turns up with a plate, chock-full of…
I’ve been involved professionally in virtual teams (tends to come with the territory when you work for a multinational corporate group…), but none have been as enjoyable as the one…
…and two for tea…er…coffee. Ms jb and CMG discussing clothes (that’s all they ever do…) at Caffee Moguntia’s TSOW the other day. On occasions like this, I pay and stand…
…..same as different to the old boss” The ‘Oo Dominic Müller has taken over the day-to-day running of Caffee Moguntia from his mother Brigitte Müller-Dildei and her partner, Karl-Josef Schwarz,…
“Get your carnival parade badge here!!! Carneval’s not Carneval if you don’t wear a parade (Zug – dialect: Zuch) badge (Plakette – dialect: Plakettcher) and the various carnival clubs are…
..if I liked the style, I wouldn’t like the colour….
…to spend €10/$13 a kilo on walnuts. Even if they do come from France. Seen in a greengrocers in Gonsenheim, one of Mainz’s flasher suburbs
Said the kiddy at the Saturday market in Gonsenheim. At a rough guess: fresh cheese with dried tomatoes, curry and spinach. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. Which…
…you can always come around here” said Uli Zawar of Sonntagskind fame. Daughter Pauline (“Paulinchen” in familyspeak) for example.
…”Let there be light,” and there was light. And the Council saw that the light was good, and the populace saw that the light was good and said “Let’s get…
Every Roman Catholic girl of …ahem.. a certain age knows what these are. Sammeltassen. Ornately decorated ornamental cup, saucer and plates given as gifts on your first communion. Just the…
…a last minute Christmas present for the family squirrel? Karina Jungenheimer, floriste extraordinaire, has got just the thing for you…
Ingredients: Mainz’s Bike Czar, Bernd Meyer-Zawar 1 bicycle rim (surplus to requirements) 4 candles Advent Abracadabra (or “simsalabim”, as they say around here), a spray can of red paint and…
I do take this privacy stuff quite seriously and I’ve asked jb to respect my concerns in that matter and not divulge my name. I’m just a regular street really…
“Vanessa. With 2 S’s” “And 2 A’s” I said. “Well, yeeeeeess…..” Vanessa’s the latest addition to Dominic’s harem staff at Caffee Moguntia’s HV Citroen mobile cafe (aka the Tin Shed…
Mainz is a funny place. State capital, 200+k population, 2 newspapers, but still with a small-town atmosphere. The papers will sometimes pick up on a story and worry it to…
The annual ceramics market in Alzey last weekend. I’ve helped them with social media and marketing strategy stuff and it seems to be working quite well. Place was packed on…
As is the old German custom, we also have this plant on our front step. Supposed to keep evil spirits at…er…bay. *Julius Caesar Act 4 Scene 2
More to the point, where’s the bloody lobster? “Dicke Lilli, gutes Kind” is a cool new cafe in the Gaustrasse in Mainz. “So where’s Fat Lilli” I asked “She must…
And they looked so attractive in summer….
Uninspiring Christmas market decoration. At the moment, anyway….
Black and White Friday, actually. Don’t really understand the hooha, to be honest. You mean that people REALLY have to spend on Friday what they couldn’t spend on Thursday because…
Bernd Meyer-Zawar is Mainz’s Bike Czar and husband of Uli Zawar of “Sonntagskind” fame. He came perambulating across the market the other day towards the Tin Shed On Wheels and…
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