The State Theatre touting its wares on the market the other week. Convinced us enough to buy tickets for “Clybourne Park” next month…
Kultcha with a capital “K” Answers (as usual) on a €100 note. Solution tomorrow.
An obvious risk of sampling the produce at the Burgundermarkt is that your senses get totally out of whack and everything becomes blurred and inexplicably multiplies. I’m sure we started…
“Worth”, of course, then needs a new definition “The level at which someone or something deserves to be valued or rated” Not.
Snails. Chablis €6 Excellent
The annual exhibition of Mme Carambolage‘s (Annemarie Kijaszek)and Britta Jung’s work at the restored tithe barn in Stadecken-Elsheim. Lord Mayor made a speech (seemed a trifle miffed at the lack…
Unless you want to strip the bark to build a canoe, birch trees are a pain in the bum. Their roots go everywhere, you can’t underplant them particularly successfully and…
Looks like hunting season has been opened on my wallet…. Essential stuff (so I’m told…) at the market
“Whodunnit”, more likely. Now, where did I leave my bike…..?
The difference between the New World and the Old World. At one of those restaurants in Concord, NH where you’re navigated to your table by a young flossy who is…
The Boeing engineers working on the prototype 747 nicknamed it “The Messiah”. Virtually everyone who entered the massive hull said “JESUS CHRIST!”. I can verify that – experienced one on…
I would have thought that when I buy a new MacBook Air running Lion, I’d be able to import the library that I had under Snow Leopard. Wrong. Apple tells…
In my defence, I plead clumsiness and a lack of perserverence. Post nicely (TL;DR) written, photo selected, publish. Out comes a fragment of the last sentence. Sod it This’ll have…
Or TL;DR Blame it on the ADHD sufferers (see yesterday’s comments…). Work it out yourselves.
….I guess it might as well be Werder Bremen. Burgundy market in Mainz yesterday and today with one of our twin towns, Dijon. The usual champagne/truffle/wine/paté/escargots gluttony, brightened by this…
…through the bathroom window wall. Eberhard Linke’s “Mann vom Castrum”, (so THAT’s where Darth Vader got his wardrobe ideas…) referencing Castrum Mogantiacum, the Roman stronghold dating back to 13 BC…
Fort Stahlberg, a defensive tower built in the mid-19th century as part of the fortifications protecting Mainz from the marauding Huns …er …French and other sundry ratbags, has recently been…
Not a sign of him, as evidenced by this fine display of Avanacluias on the market
The Rhine from t’other side downstream from Oberwesel. Panoramically speaking…
I suppose I could triangulate my position, though…
Supplementary decorative detail on the Markthäuser
Motorway railing in Laubenheim
(You have to have kept poultry to get that one…) Everyone’s favourite chook on the market.
Competition on the market the other day. Shutter speed of somewhere close to 300 seconds….
Apart from the fact that iceberg has mold on it and looks suspiciously like Hessen on the opposite bank of the Rhine from Weisenau and neither Winslett nor DiCaprio were…
A court in Kassel declared last week that when Frankfurt airport’s 4th runway goes into operation at the end of the month, there are to be no flights between 23:00…
Medical students in the making at the Gutenberg Museum’s print shop.
Detail on the Heunensäule on the Domplatz
The German language has some heroically long words – Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz, for example. It also has some that are exquisite in their succinctness and challenging in their resistance to simple translation…
I THINK that this is an empty icecream container. HOPING, anyway. Too many doctors’ practices in the vicinity to be sure, though…..
Mainz Daily Photo 