…would have you believe that these are chemtrails, used by the Gummint to geo-engineer [sic] the weather and drug us into submission. All I can tell you is that this…
Halftime score: 0:0 Niko Bungert has a market value of €2.5m. He marked Robert Lewandowski (who scored 5 goals in 9 minutes against Wolfsburg last week) Market value? €50m He…
The Coface Arena in Mainz holds 34,000 spectators. It’s normally pretty full, but when Bayern Munich turns up, you’re like sardines in a tin. I figured that trying to score…
Thekla, the little sweetie from next door, was christened at the Protestant church in the village last Sunday. Heaps of folks in addition to what appears to be a sizable…
Mainz has a coloured history – Romans, Franks, Vandals, Swedes, Austrians, French all turned up at some stage and stayed for various periods of time – but it’s the bleu-blanc-rouge…
Andrew van Leeuwen and I go back a long way. Although it seems longer than just 3 years….. We hit it off straight away and I was mightily narked when…
Yesterday was Officially Autumn, but I’d promised Simone Bott a slott [sic] on MDP so here we are – a day late and a dollar short. Did you know that…
Simone Bott co-runs the eponymous family tiling business in Weisenau. It’s the go-to place if you want quality and expert advice. In the process of renovating one of the bathrooms…
Riding through the fields in Hechtsheim can be quite traumatic….
Being forced to sit in the Porter House, an Irish pub in Mainz, drinking Guinness and watching the Rugby World Cup game NZL vs ARG on a big flat screen…
An event in front of the Staatstheater on Friday, highlighting the work of and need for womens’ refuges in a most powerful way. Lines and lines of womens’ and kiddy’s…
Werner Scholles‘s egg stand at the Mainz market just wasn’t the same without his tame rooster strolling around the table top. Moritz departed for the big hen house in the…
..er…crane my neck to see the top of the boom. Heavy-lifting in Klaawinnerum
“Waste not, want not” is what my granddad used to say. Sloppy stuff seen during the Grumbeerernte*. Local dialect for “potato harvest” What was that? You thought they’re called Kartoffeln…
Look at the amount of energy required to build, install, decommission and dispose of a single turbine and you’ll find it’s significantly more than the energy generated over a unit’s…
…just good days for different things. When it’s blowing a gale and pouring with rain, that’s a good day to sit in a café with mates, not a day to…
Fillet of a fenny snake, In the cauldron boil and bake Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog, Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,…
If you’re partial to a decent sized piece of Fleischwurst, a roll and some mustard, the go-to place in Mainz is the Harth family’s mobile butcher on the market. Tuesday,…
Up at the Kaffeekommune the other week when 2 ladies walked up, wavering a bit as whether to go in. “Best coffee in Mainz” I said. “If not the world…”…
Not to be outdone by the recent excavations at the English Stonehenge, our local builders (Karl-Heinz and Willibert Druid) quickly got into the act and slung up some pillars to…
Or- “Get well soon” as they say around these parts. Which is what you’ll hear when you visit Monika Schmitt’s Andreas Apotheke (Andreas Pharmacy, named after St Andrew, the patron…
I’ve always wondered about that single reader from the Vatican who follows Mainz Daily Photo with the email address headhoncho@stpeters.va Turns that Pope Franciscus has been an avid follower for…
The first day at school in Germany is quite something. Kiddies with a year or more under their belts front up on the first day after the summer holidays and…
Down at my local hangout, the Kaffeekommune, the other week and Tony, the English barista, said ” Oh, we’ve got a new blend today – it’s like drinking little raindrops…
Protestants – non-Catholics in general, actually – had a pretty hard time in Mainz. Napoleon Bonaparte was the first to lift them from their status (shared with Jews) as “tolerated…
Matthias Wolf’s winebar and vineyard restaurant in Lörzweiler is a real treat. In a very elegant barn conversion, he sells his own wine by the bottle and/or glass, Paulaner wheat…
that I had a big nose…. A proboscally gifted market visitor.
Werner Scholles, star of Mainz’s market. Accompanied for ages by Moritz, his Obixto cockerel, and bit sad these days at its passing. He’s been on TV heaps, spreading his jokes…
No sooner have you fallen in love with a player and got Gran to buy you his strip for Christmas than another club snaps him up and he’s gone. As…
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Or Maria Ward, pronounced in German to rhyme with “bard” Yorkshire lass, born into a Catholic family at a time (16C) of great religious conflict in England, forcing her relocation…
