There appears to have been an influx of chronologically-gifted folk with cropped grey hair. This one in the Augustinerstrasse
…”she looks like a Riesling” said Kalle Stöckle. We were at a dinner in a vineyard restaurant and sitting down the table from a particularly acerbic looking lady. The visual…
Cobblestones. Mainzer Rad. All we’re missing is a Meenzer Fleischworscht…. And a Weck. And Woi. Especially Woi….
red, yellow. And blue Primarily speaking, that is……..
You’ll normally find the Mug of the Month series over on YMBFA. This one deserves to be here. If you were making pottery commercially (Wedgewood, Royal Dalton et al) in…
Spektrale 2011 is a stunningly good exhibition under the auspices of “Stadt der Wissenschaft/City of Science 2011. More over at YMBFA with “A day at Spektrale 2011“, but Jule B…
Now, I’m not saying that Germany is over-regulated, but you can’t mow your lawn between 1pm and 3pm, you have to sweep your side-walk every Saturday (no, NOT Friday and…
There are few enough remnants of Mainz’s mediaeval city wall without their being imprisoned. Up until 10 years ago, this was a petrol station on the Rheinstrasse. BP closed it…
I’m going to front up at the reception of the University of Applied Sciences in the Rheinstrasse in Mainz and ask them what they know about the concrete relief gracing…
Even the bicycles are melting….
These 2 young folk from the city’s Horticultural Division ( I kid you not….) were hard at work at just after 7 a.m. the other day, tugging out tired looking…
Sparrowsfart (6:49 a.m.), lying on my stomach in the middle of the Cathedral Square, taking a photograph of a postcard propped up against my wallet. Little wonder that people came…
“Parking the van. Back at 8:50” No-one steals his cashbox or nicks any bread. Just do a circuit of the market and come back in 10 minutes. He’s worth it.
I used to be an oil lantern, but it got on my wick. Then I wanted to be a gas lantern, but they said I wasn’t bright enough. So now…
Not much use for these at the moment. Rain all week, more expected.
Good selection at the Johannisnacht market. (I spy with my little eye one for 50 Grad….)
Almost toppled off the trusty velocipede when I first clapped eyes on this place last year. This is the Don Bosco Catholic Youth Centre, an organisation supported by Diocese of…
…on the Augustinerstrasse.
..and dealing. Quite an appropriate image (a window in the “Zum Goldstein” winebar) for a bit of peripateticism. We used to be a Blogger blog. We’re now at WordPress. If…
…very nice lady (Heike Heiseler) from Ono Koon in the Augustinerstrasse. Not that I bought anything….
…chairs outside Ono Koon in the Augustinerstrasse
…” said Grace Niklas, my little Irish friend “but I’m almost 4. And then I go to the BIG school” Growing up in Dublin with an Irish mum and…
Madonna on high with cherubims, seraphims and twiddly bits at Jakobsbergstrasse 4.
Aqueductoral detail on one of the 9 carved stone cubes spelling out Johannes’ name on their horizontal surface one of the vertical planes in front of the Gutenberg Museum. (Why…
…a boy was playing cricket…. “Zum Goldstein” was first documented in 1568 and registered as an operating brewery in 1747. Mainz had over 20 breweries at the time –…
The foyer of the VIP lounge at Colosseum Cofacies decorated with Calderesque figures of “the beautiful game”, separated from the photographer by a thick pane of glass and hefty bouncers.…
Historical stuff, this…. “Typesetting and Design” Typesetting machine knowledge” “The serigraph manual” In 30 years, we (you, actually, I’ll have fallen off the perch by then…) will stumble over…
Beginner level stuff. Urban recycling on the Kästrich. (Just make sure you don’t fall in through the windows….)
The real McCoy, as it were, decorating the collar of the Heunensäuleon the market
..is having a Reduziert. If you have to translate [übersetzen]your advertising [Werbung] into your customers’ own language [Sprache], you’ve got the wrong advertising agency [Werbeagentur]. Linguistic fail.
It’s always a surprise to find what you associate with cooler days and longer nights on the market in mid-summer. Savoy cabbage, for example. It’s only when you listen to…
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