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…
Who’s been desecrating Mainz with these high-tech stickers? Probably the same idiot who runs this website…
…wasissenDES?” “Pray tell me, Roswitha, what have you bought NOW? “Ei, Karl-Günthä, dessinDaddele” “Dates, dear Hans-Günther” “Daddele?! DADDELE?! WasmachstzumdeibeldodamitdeneDaddele, Roswitha?” “Dates? DATES?! What on earth are you going to do…
…I’ll shit on your head. I’ll probably do it anyway”
New café in the Gaustrasse. Dicke Lilli, gutes Kind. Excellent espresso, naff cherry tart, great decoration. Not sure if it was Women’s Day (they have those at the local swimming…
Stood under here for AT LEAST 10 minutes. Nothing happened. It’s either because it’s not New Years Eve yet or it’s me. Probably the latter. (But I’ll try again next…
Not in Mainz, though. They had a cherry-picker and THREE (count them) workers removing autumn foliage, leaf by leaf. No wonder our city taxes are so high…..
The oldest (and finest) Renaissance fountain in Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marktbrunnen_%28Mainz%29
..the singer and guitarist famously apologised that his voice sounded like “geese farts on a foggy day”. Listened hard. Heard nothing
…in the Gaustrasse
A very young looking 50….. Anton, Berti, Conni are cartoon characters created by ZDF, one of the 2 national TV channels supported by TV license fees. They date back to…
On more levels than one….
Local stuff from the market in Gonsenheim
At the Gonsenheim market the other week doing “Still life with cabbages” (tomorrow, if I can’t find anything better) when this lady and her bicycle patiently waited while I finished…
Gloria Hasse asked me to open an exhibition at her Keramikum gallery in Darmstadt the other day. A pleasure. As usual. Very good art. As usual. Excellent lunch. As usual.…
A real cracker of a sunset on Sunday
I’m not sure if I should SAY something, but at a rough guess, I’d say that packet of rusks at the bottom is WELL past its “Best by” date….
Karina Jungenheimer on the market (Friday and Saturday, Tuesdays by special request) makes this stuff. I can’t get overly excited about it, but it attracts flocks of birds in great…
More than you’d think. I stumbled over Butterbergreul, an alleyway in Gonsenheim, last year and try as I might, I couldn’t trace the origin of the name. Stumped. And I…
So what’s a letter between friends…? (Somewhere between Wells and York)
Hollow it out and cut holes in it to celebrate Halloween, that most GERMAN of festivals? What a waste of a good Hokkaido pumpkin! If you absolutely HAVE to slavishly…
My parents-in-law were farmers. Work on a Sunday, like this guy? Never on your life. Elisa, my mother-in-law (and whom I was fonder of than a son-in-law has a right…
I bumped into Australian motorsport journalist Andrew van Leeuwen and his harem back in July and we’ve been exchanging Mainz 05 commiserations and beer tasting notes (he has no idea, but…
27 October and it’s SNOWING? And the clocks get turned back tomorrow too, so it gets dark in the afternoon? I think I need some Sicily. Like some people who’d…
It’s that time of year again when we teetotalers are forced to partake (my cousin Ruth taught me that word..) of the new wine. The things I do for science………
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