> The Fresh Choice supermarket in Richmond gets a big tick from me. Good range of product, nice people and a stunning wine department run by David Jones. Seriously nice…
> Along with thousands of other Cantabrians, the Canterbury rugby team, the Crusaders, is homeless. In the great scheme of things and in comparison with the unspeakable sufferings of…
Legend has it that Nelson is the home to more Morris Minors than any other place in New Zealand. (Nelson also has 2.2% of the population and 17%…
> Pretty much anywhere that serves beer. Or wine. Anything with a few rpms Even better if they make it on the premises. Goldener Engel brewery in NQN Ingelheim. A…
> One of the best things about being back in Nelson is popping into Baku in Richmond and being greeting like long lost friends by people like Lynda. Secretly, I’m…
> A fry of Steve Fullmer’s eels
> With thanks to Meg and Ben for tolerating the intrusion ….I’m convinced that this is one of the best galleries I know. Run by one of the nicest…
Having received a further invitation to spread my profound wisdom among the youth of the world, I’m sure that it’s only a matter of time before this outfit begs me…
> Brobdingnagianism at Mainz’s Academy of Arts.Last year.This year’s was such a well-kept secret that I didn’t find out about it until I couldn’t go any more.Rats.
> “Hommage a Gutenberg” a 1988 work on the Rhine promenade by Wulf Kirschner, a Hamburg sculptor. Massively big (taller than me, anyway) wavy steel pages with welded implied text…
> Sounds like a lyric from “Highway 61 Revisited”. (Who said speed kills…?) Here be that bridge again with a severe paucity of cumulo-thingies, but a surfeit (that’s…
> These pigeon barriers appear to require a redesign. Unless of course it’s a pigeon prison which would be a VERY GOOD IDEA. Fort Malakoff
> I’m in two minds about Emy Roeder, the Mainz sculptress. On the one hand, I rate her work untold – this is the “Tripolitanerin” from 1961 on the banks…
> Navigation lights at Michael Teschke‘s vineyard in Laurenziberg. The easy way to remember the port/starboard/left/right/red/green confusion is this one: “PORT wine is RED and is best LEFT well alone”…
> “I’ve got my eye(s) on you….” Metallic Triffidity on the Theodore-Heuss bridge linking Mainz with heathen lands.
> The floodlight towers between the Rathaus and the Rheingoldhalle. (Jockel-Fuchs-Platz, to give it its correct name) Tweaked just a tad. But only with iPhoto…. (Back in the day, of…
> Where are you going with that cake?” Scene from the Villa Musica hoolie last year. Tilt-shifted with this here thingie
> …don’t appear all they’re cracked up to be. Wilful damage to the Coneheads* on the Alte Universitätsstrasse *Aka as the conical decorative skylights for the lower levels of the…
> How bloody dull can you get? “Die Römersteine”. These are the remnants of one of the most significant Roman structures north of the Alps, for goodness sake! An aquaduct…
> Double espresso and a blueberry muffin at the (average age 17…) Kiddie Café Annabatterie café on the Gartenfeldplatz. Definitely worth a visit.
> Thomas Campion Said Thomas Campion. On yer bike, say I.
> Not mine. Mine’s neatly trimmed. I think. (Confirmation required) This is Clematis vitalba, taken with an iPhone 3GS
> …said Uschi. Not surprised. First time she’s flown anywhere by herself. Meet Uschi Niklas, my mate Christoph‘s wife. She retired from her job at the University clinic in Mainz…
> I’m not a regular visitor to palaces of conspicuous consumption aka shopping centres, but I’ll make an exception for The Loop in NQM Weiterstadt. They have a place…
> Anthony Hammond (American dad, German mum) runs the Garage Winery just across the river in Oestrich-Winkel. He calls his wine Sugar-Babe, Rosamunde, Kickstart and Goldmarie, sells them in 0.25…
> …… in the cold cold ground,No, I don’t wanna have them cut me up and pass me all around.Throw my brain in a hurricane, and the blind can have…
> A young Josef Beuys holds court to a disinterested visitor at Frankfurt’s MMK (Museum of Modern Art)
> “Portobello” is a small Italian restaurant run by Giovanni and Barbara Jelapi in Nieder Ober-Olm, a neighbouring village. They opened about 18 years ago and we’ve seen their…
> Who don’t in fact look too happy with the situation at all. Not surprising, given what you read in the papers… Update The tablet sez Veni, Creator Spiritus One…
> Oh, OK then. But I did warn you… Allegorical thingies clustered around Fastnachtsbrunnen. Answers on a $20 note, please…
> More white stuff…..
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