Brew kettle at the Goldener Engel micro-brewery in Ingelheim
Diane from Etlaynta (middle) and her kid sister Denise* from Lon Gisland (right) with a visitor from Hawkes Bay (left) descended on Mainz last weekend as part of a trip…
Another excuse to wonder at the Chagall stained glass windows in the St Stephans church at the top of the Gaustrasse
Flash new sign at our entrance to the village.
..trees for the wood. Something like that anyway. Mainz’s ligneous version of Stonehenge in the kiddy playground at the Goetheplatz
No need to throw the toys out of the pram/tear off your Deutschland flag in a fit of pique. They didn’t play THAT badly – twee:een is twee:een in anyone’s…
And it came to pass that THE LORD did appear before the HIGH PRIEST of the Melanchthonkirche in the Schlesische Viertel of the City of Mayence and SPAKE unto him…
..in the Leichhof.
Talk about ungrateful! Provide a family of blackbirds food and lodging (they even recycled one of my tea bags from the compost heap for the nest…) in our clipped box…
Italy vs Spain tonight in the EM 2012. BTW. Did I mention that Germany thrashed ..er ..scraped home against Portugal yesterday? Little Miss Einstein certainly wouldn’t have..
Here’s a good story. True one, too. Immediately following the Armistice that ended the first world war in 1918, allied troops occupied the western bank of the Rhine and established…
So I bought some watercolours to liven it all up a bit Augustinerstrasse in the Altstadt
..until you get to the other side. Fat chance of that. Pay your €2.50 or your bike’s at the bottom of the Rhine and you’re heading for Davy Jones’s locker…
I do a bit of pro bono marketing and methodology consulting for a ceramics market in Alzey and a couple of potters in Höhr-Grenzhausen Design the websites, keep them updated,…
The Pfalz at Kaub. Inside looking out. Wisely again
Even the manhole covers get a quick once-over…
Horrendousness at the local plant megastore
Bought a sketchpad and some pencils. Not bad for a first effort, eh?
When our best friends/surrogate parents Isla and Bill visited us in Germany, Bill couldn’t get over how DEAD German villages were/still are around mid-day. We’d drive through a village and…
..what manner of bird be this? I was getting worried. Wasn’t feeling too hot on that particular day and I thought it might be a vulture with ESP. Wrote my…
..a boy was playing cricket The ball ran up his… The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of…
…it does. Gargoyle in the Dagobertstrasse.
Bugger. Where the road disappear to…?
Araneae Christo et Jeanne-Claude at work
Marienborn Cemetery wall. Don’t know who the tree belongs to…
These shop-in-shop bakeries, tucked away in the entrances of supermarkets, fall in between REAL bakeries (start with flour, water and yeast at 4am and make real bread) and the “pressthebuttonforarollfromPoland”…
All chicks present and accounted for. Now to keep the bloody cats at bay…
And the season did come again that the populace cried out for viridi condimentum and the agricola did hear their pleas and proceeded to sow the seeds of Petroselinum hortense,…
This is what having wine on your cornflakes does for you….
I’m usually on the other side, but I rocked down to the Markt der schönen Dinge in Mainz yesterday to say Hi to Karin Schweickhard and Michael Limbeck. Stall is…
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