…in the Big City Mapua channel
This is why I’m in New Zealand. Bruce (world class land yachtie/blo-karter and someone who achieved lasting notoriety by asking Colin McCahon, one of New Zealand’s most significant, influential and…
…next to Gillian Orange and Annette Blue. That’s what they wrote down when I asked them to emerge from anonymity for NTNDP/MDP when I photographed them at Basecamp, a serious…
Patrick and Ross at the Golden Bear brewery on Mapua wharf. At 7%, it’s sure to give you Delirium Tremors. Or whatever they call it…..
Nikau, window, lamp. Almost Bauhaus
Guy McCracken, champion barista and owner of the exquisite Café on Oxford and Erika, his excellent co-baristeuse. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – his/her doppio is…
The Moutere Inn. Oldest pub in NZ.
Who says these Germans don’t have a sense of humour or wit? “Einzigartig” Means “Unique” If you’re introducing a …um…revolutionary bike hire concept, why not brand it “Mainzigartig Mobil”? You’ll…
‘Interieur 253, the cafe-cum-restaurant attached to the Arp Museum in Rolandseck.
I’ve just found out that I’m fairly competitive with the Olympic marathon runners. The women. Them running, me on my mountain bike. I’ll see if I can qualify for Rio…
I can safely offer a free coffee at the TSOW to anyone who comes up with a location for this Madonna. The only people who know a) don’t have a…
Serious arboreal trimming taking place in Bretzenheim’s Milky Way (Milchpfad) Not really – the Milky Way is the Milchstrasse and this was the path along which farmers brought dairy products…
Ms jb’s friend Gudrun supplies her with a steady stream of images. I don’t think she (Gudrun) really knows how good a photographer she is… Eltville on t’other side of…
Again. No stopping? On a farm track through a motorway underpass? OK. I’ll move…
That’s the A63 up there. Always makes me think of David Lindley. Worth 10:04 of anyone’s time.. Saigon, it was all gone The same Coke machines As the streets…
A whole barge-load of amethysts? And no guards? Seen at the quayside in Bingen
…mallow yallow Malven around here. Wonder if they have anything to do with the salt people…?
Er…summer clean? Phillip Harth’s “Tiger” sculpture on the Rhine promenade in the process of getting a good scrub. My quoting Blake at the time appears to have given Kate of…
…same price. 3 weeks later
06131. The only number you need to know. Also Newington CT’s zip code. If you’re interested.
..impaled your thumb with your sword. St Bonifatius in a state of misery.
Yes, I do think so…..
That’s the gobbledygook that New Zealand bureaucrats use when they want to say “a nice view”. The highly attractive and exceptionally pleasant Ms. Schulz from Caffee (TSOW) Moguntia definitely qualifies…
It’s quite unbelievable what a mountain bike, bike gloves and a high level of tolerance to nettles and scratches will get you. Mirabelle plums and blackberries (a kilo in 2…
Apricots on the market
On the industrial crane in the Rhine-side park in Bingen
True story. Wattle and daub is a 6000 year old (neolithic, even) building technique. A woven lattice of wooden strips acts as in the same way as reinforcing netting does…
The young lady in pink set up a canine grooming stand of the market on Friday, immediately attracting a customer (black) a customer’s own (red, white, bottle-blond) a camera team.…
…he probably thinks that blue stuff is curacao. My mate Bacchus, patron saint of imbibers god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy. (His real…
…looking down benignly on the new(ish) restaurant in the Kupferberg Terraces overlooking Mainz.
Mainz Daily Photo 