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…
When the Wall Street Journal writes an article about the German craft beer scene, you know it’s getting some traction. The latest on the scene in Mainz is Kuehn-Kunz-Rosen, drawing…
Laying new tram tracks in the Gaustrasse isn’t as simple as it looks, it appears. You don’t just dig everything up, whack in new metal and Bob’s your uncle… No,…
I have an excellent recipe for a fresh pea soup, which I’m most happy to share if you’d care to send your address on the back of a €100 (or…
In my mind, Birkenstocks are indelibly associated with müsli eaters, political protests and unshaven armpits. I evidently haven’t moved with the times, because Ms jb informs me that they’re now…
In New Zealand, there’s no greater achievement. Once you’ve played for the national Rugby team, it’s not “Oh, he used to be an All Black”, it’s “He’s an All Black”…
The Ober-Olmer Wald is a 350ha patch of woodland that was – until 1991 – used by the US military for training. These days, it’s criss-crossed with walking, cycling and…
I first met Phillip (r) and Leon (l) at their Eulchen pop-up store in the Gaustrasse in November 2013, they’ve gone on to taking over an unused kiosk in the…
Leonidas Lazaridis und Philip Vogel started their Eulchen beer concept way back in 2013. It bubbled away under everyone’s radar for a while until they took over the lease of…
…blowing bubbles. The bubble machine at the Eulchen and Friends Biergarten in the courtyard of the Kurfürstliches Schloss (Electors’ Palace). Eulchen beer, wine from the Weinraumwohnung, catering from Brits KWIZIN,…
I think it’s with a “K”. (It’s not. I’ve changed it) Paul Bonna at the ever excellent Kaffeekommune is a dab hand at choosing good staff. This is Carina, born…
…is excellent. A while back, I’d have been stuck in this. Now I just observe from the bike path… Thinks: No, I used to LEAVE in the dark and come…
The Catholic church gets up my nose on occasion with some of its medieval attitudes. Not my problem, of course. Let the adherents to the faith sort it out. But…
Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers. He must have been a pencil squeezer. He didn’t do the Mona Lisa, That was an Italian geezer. The Summer Academy in Mainz appears…
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is an excellent national Sunday newspaper. It’s just that they don’t know sh*t from clay when it comes to forecasting the Bundesliga. Just look at last…
