Uli (for Ulrike) Zawar is the owner of “Sonntagskind“, a shop that can’t make up its mind* whether it’s an espresso bar or a kiddy clothes shop. (*It doesn’t need…
The Egon Schönberger story has helped me uncover aspects of Mainz that had escaped me until now. It’s only when you start looking for specific locations that you realise how…
…oh, about 24 years. We first met Ulla Nelles-Halft in 1988 at an amateur artists’ market in a small village way out in the woops. She was waaaay best…
Buoy, oh buoy was it calm on the Main the other day….
On the market the other day at the Sicilian stand – Signora Anna whose hair must have chameleon DNA, because it changes colour EVERY week and hubby who looks as…
That was last week. Beach bar on the banks of the Rhine. Winter woolies are what you need at the moment….
Cold front from the Atlantic meets warm air from the Sahara. Big stoush. Lightning, Thunder. Downpours. Atlantic cold front wins.
PDA*s on the lenticularly-trussed railway bridge across the Rhine. There are so many of these darn things attached to the fence that the bridge is taking on a significant list…
No sooner do I meet Till and his mum Julia when I bump into them exactly a week later at the same place – Caffee Moguntia’s TSOW. Purely by chance,…
The characters: Ferdinand – King of Navarre Lord Berowne – attending on the King (also spelt Biron) Lord Longaville – attending on the King (also spelt Longueville) Lord Dumaine –…
Uschi of the eponymous Fischshop van on the market in Bad-Kreuznach (which – being a mere HSAAJ from here and being eminently bike-rideable – belongs to the Greater Mainz Area).…
Madonna and child surveying the market square.
Sophie Preußer asked me the other day where I got my ideas for MDP. Sometimes it’s a combination of inquisitiveness and haemo-dementia (The Gates of the Gutenberg Museum), sometimes it’s…
Late in the day on the Rhine
Sophie Preußer… – is doing 2 degrees (BA in Cultural Ethnology – almost finished, BA in Journalism – just started) – working for ZDF, one of the 2 national taxpayer-funded…
Bumped into Flor-Maria at Caffea Moguntia this am, sans Felipe who’s made the big move to kindergarten. The appearance of Till with his mum Julia made up for his absence,…
The Potsdamer Hof is a vineyard restaurant on the outskirts of Bodenheim, a proverbial HSAAJ from Mainz. We rocked over on Friday (the planned visit to Mainz’s wine festival in…
I first met Marg in kindergarten in Northcote, a suburb of Auckland. We’ve never really been out of touch, which makes her the person I’ve known longest. We last saw…
City Daily Photo, the website that kicked this whole thing off, got comprehensively hacked a while back and doesn’t look like re-emerging anytime soon. Apparently there’s a Facebook page that’s…
…… and a time to every purpose under the heaven” Too true. Mr Eccles Iastes wrote that, Pete Seeger put the words to music, the Byrds sang it. It’s about…
Mainz’s market in late summer
..supper …er…. turtle. Phoebe and Rebecca are standing on what used to be the much-loved aquarium on Mapua Wharf before an arsonist munted it just under year ago. Little survived.…
170-ish years ago, this spot on Bridge Street in Nelson apparently marked the foreshore – a good 1km away these days. Mind you, you can get your feet wet and…
Well, I’ll be buggered! It’s Bro Paul of Auckland West fame! Not quite as coincidental as one might think, though. Having met for the first time in early 2011, again…
…empty. The Origin Pacific passenger terminal at Nelson airport. Origin Pacific was an airline owned by one of the local influentials that had been struggling since it started competing against…
Hamish, Mapua’s resident white heron, graced the wharf with his presence from the late 1980s until 2011 when he was last seen emptying Kathie Russell’s goldfish pond in Brightwater in…
Buying wine in New Zealand is a bit tricky, especially if you come from a traditional wine-growing region. There aren’t many small vineyards where you get to meet the vintner…
…….I do like sunsets around here. Hoddy Rd, Mapua.
The consensus of opinion in Nelson is that the best pies are the ones from The Lunch Stop on Pascoe St, run by Mey Khong and Ng Khong, a couple…
Mainz Daily Photo 