The lunch room at Roland Rother’s workshop. “Titillating” doesn’t BEGIN to describe the artwork…
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That’s what my schoolboy Latin tells me is the translation for “Boniface”, shown here giving us the cold shoulder as he gazes over the square in front of the cathedral.…
…but I’m wondering if it says “Duotonplatz” on the 2nd Level of the Theater underground car park?
Redcurrants on the market
Only a matter of weeks until the agony starts. “How could they be leading 3:1 and allow 2 goals in the last 5 minutes?” “That new guy’s about as much…
Caffea Moguntia (aka the Tin Shed On Wheels = TSOW) is going to be with us all summer. Brigitte Müller-Dildei‘s son Dominic has taken over the market business (they’re in…
Norbert Trock has packed up his tent and moved on to the next oasis. Wherever that may be. So what do I do now…?
In the finest erotic tradition of our friends from St Paul and Eagan, our very own X-rated roundabout/traffic circle/rotary. Which used to be crowned by a spinning top until a…
The park-that-used-to-be-the-old-shunting-yard-on-the-banks-of-the-Rhine-in-Bingen-until-it-hosted-the-State-Horticultural-Show-in-2010 is always worth a visit. (Even if those bloody pensioners shout at you for cycling in an utterly deserted park…) For the past 2 years, they’ve featured a…
… or two. Steps at the Geromont vineyard in Oestrich-Winkel
And if it keeps up like it’s been for the last couple of days, I’d be prepared to pay…um…€7.10?
Or “The Bridge to Nowhere”. Mainz’s yacht harbour is tucked off to the south of the city, opposite the confluence of the Main and the Rhine. Not many floating gin…
… Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes” ‘(Richard III, I,2,151-152) Thinks Richard: “If you don’t stop bloody nagging, I’ll do away with YOU as well” More from…
Mixed salad greens (and oranges…) at the market
Michael Kinzer as Richard III said Andreas Koch, the director in his introduction to Zettel’s Theater‘s superb performance of Richard III last Friday at the Geromont vineyard in Oestrich-Winkel. “But…
Mainz’s very own industrial monument, the Alte Ziegelei in Bretzenheim. A field kiln* was established close to a clay quarry in the fields outside Bretzenheim in the late 19th C…
Need a travel agent to get it all set up for you? Gaby’s your girl….
“King of the Castle” to you. Appears to live here….
Excellent!
…loutish behaviour and enormous quantities of rubbish. For some people, at least. Namely those who risk blindness by drinking this stuff…
…rope…er….photos. Flicking through one of the local free papers the other week…..HANG ON A SEC……that’s my picture from the Burgunder Markt last year. Called up the publisher (“Oh, we got…
The “Drei-Mädchen” fountain on the Ballplatz, suffering from severe dehydration. The reason: No money. As usual. Mainz has enormous debts – close to €1bn – and it costs €220,000 annually…
can-can…
Detail in the cloisters of St Stephans church. Here’s the true story (I’m in the process of picking up some work, translating audio book texts. The one about Mainz STILL…
Mainly due to some fairly sturdy fencing around them to keep marauding scavengers at bay. (Wire cutters would work, but they’re electrified. O know…..)
Didn’t know that Marc Chagall was a drinking man, but why else would he smuggle a serving wench carrying 2 decent sized glasses of ale into one of his windows…
Mainz Daily Photo 