> Saint Martin gets mugged again…
> ……on everything.[Little Feat 1970 – listen] Especially on metal containers. And not only snakes. This is Sabine, our 165 year old neighbours-from-across-the-road‘s daughter. She’s married to a Protestant…
> This goes back to last summer. Christian Lenz owns and runs a specialist plant nursery in Niederheimbach (AHSAAJ from Mainz) overlooking the Rhine. He specialises in landscaping, so he’s…
> A sad display for potential drinkers at a run-down bar in a run-down part of town
> ….to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.” (Just hate that song) Probably a hibiscus. Sculpture by the inordinately talented Beate Thiesmeyer. Just to…
> This one slipped through the cracks back in May when I was hobbling around on crutches and being even less focussed than normal. My mate Christoph‘s son Stephan is…
> …we’re all of us looking for the key….” Alan Bennett once said. Good stuff seen at Thomas and Gitta Keßler’s vinothek in the Heiliggrabgasse. Wines from good producers,…
> ..my bus..Three Euros and twenty in my hand”HT Lou Reed and Gucki Bus stop at the top of the hill blinded bythe lightHT Bruce
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> …Knut. Every year, Ikea, a Swedish furniture store with tentacles all over the world, holds its post-Christmas sale, starting on the 20th day after Christmas which falls on an…
> … shopping trolley. Or cart. These high-tech thingies are daisy-chained and to release one, you need a €1 coin* for the slot. Can’t get far if you want to…
> Those muscular types who think these newfangled climbing walls are a recent invention are way off the mark. They’ve been around for centuries. All this business with stringing yourself…
> Gesine und Markus Roll run the Weedenbornhof, a (her) family winery in Monzenheim. We stumbled over them a year of so back with Frank and Mrs the Potter at…
> The guy at the Kaiser organic bakery stand on the market spun what sounded like a pretty tall tale yesterday. “Essener bread has nothing to do with Essen (Ed:…
> @ Odiles
> St Stephan’s church in Mainz-Gonsenheim is just your common or garden church, but you wouldn’t know by just looking at it. The twin spires (invisible at night and in…
> …and beads. And an outrageous use of roadkill for the slippers….. Augustinerstrasse.
> …snap. Moss on a cold tiled roof
> Mrs Frank the Potter hails from southern Germany where tradition is Alive and Well. Every year at Christmas, she bakes a batch of cinnamon cookies using moulds with traditional…
> “Hmmmm….let’s see what’s in the fridge ….Savoy cabbage, red onions, regular onions….. how about…. CABBAGE SOUP?!” “Yechhhh…” “Well, we COULD spice it up with a couple of pine cones….”…
> Not the Alphaville version Forever young, i want to be forever young Do you really want to live forever, forever forever Forever young, i want to be forever…
> Said the guy on the market. “He’s thinking “If I take another step, I’m going to fall off the pinth….”” Johannes Gutenberg living dangerously.
> As if all this bloody white stuff wasn’t bad enough, “Wintaro”, a local restaurant, has to rub it in. “Pork fillet , potato SNOW* and salad” *Really just mashed…
> I can’t seriously believe that no-one’s doing a Portsmouth Daily Photo. It was settled in 1630, so there’s lots of Olde Stuffe including Strawberry Banke, an outdoor history museum.…
> The Stadt der Wissenschaft title is a prestigious trophy that’s passed from deserving city to deserving city by the German Science Foundation. Given that we’ve got 4 universities Johannes…
> There were so many rocket corpses littering the garden after New Year that you’d think that people were targeting the place. Maybe they were….
> Drum roll. Ladies and Gennlemen – the Runner Up Never actually published and not even Mainz, but given my terminal case of peripateticism I’m sure you’ll forgive me. The…
> Just HAS to be this one of Semira e Alessandro from August. (Semira liked it so much that she knocks 10% off the bill these days) For more cuddles…
> Scotland has some good traditions. Whisky drinking, for one. Another one that’s appropriate for this time of year is “First footing” To ensure good luck for the house, the…
> I’ve known Lena since she was about 3. I took her on her first date (suitably chaperoned by Mrs jb’s niece, I hasten to add) when she was about…
> …that you find kids who’s prefer to be at school than elsewhere. These 2 young flossies accosted me on the Christmas market and said “we’refromtheMartunusschoolandwe’recollectingforUNCEFwouldyouliketo makeadonation?” Being half-deaf, a…
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