> ….Hefeweizen. At the Alte Patrone, a one-time munitions dump for the circle of fortifications around Mainz dating back to the late 19th C. Then again, maybe 8 in the…
> when sweetheart cabbages, leeks and celeriac start crowding out raspberries, blackberries and nectarines…
> I seriously expected the four riders of the Apocalypse to emerge from all that cumulo-whatever. At least, I THINK that’s what’s meant to happen on Judgement Day. I’m sure…
> “Here I am, working my butt off and the boss just sits there reading the bloody newspaper. I think I’ll join the union” “Sod him. He should consider himself…
> ….and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. (I’ve always liked Genesis. Especially the pre-Phil Collins era…) Verily it was good, too. The Lux…
> I DO enjoy the annual Wissenschaftsmarkt (Knowledge Fair) in Mainz, being that it’s housed in yurt-like structures (takes me back to my time in Almaty – all 22 hours…
> Mainz has almost as many twin cities as Paris Holidayinn and Lindsay Lolife (or whatever their names are) have “friends” on Facebook and Twitter combined. Has some advantages. Firstly,…
> I’m sure I’ve posted the 50th-Parallel-running-through-Mainz on numerous occasions, but in honour of World Alzheimers Day, I figured that no-one would notice…– Posted using BlogPress
> Hope they said grace beforehand. “2, 4, 6, 8 Dig in, don’t wait…” Posted using BlogPress in the absence of any Internet connectivity thanks to 1&1, my ISP, who…
> I’m sure that there’s a booming industry, supplying the local poultry farmers with polyester feathers and fake chicken faeces. And a service industry paying people a pittance for gluing…
> Someone’s not convinced. Unhappiness personified and to be found all around Mainz. Documented comprehensively elsewhere by Fish & Chips and Gucki
> Not that I’m a drinking man (anyone who claims otherwise is a liar..), but it the sight of ripening grapes does fill me with great happiness in anticipation of…
> I can normally smell microbreweries at a distance of 15 kilometres or so, but this one appears to have slipped under the radar. The Goldener Engel (“Golden Angel”) brewery…
> The ferry operators plying the Rhine are nothing if not direct. Assertive, even. Turn off your engine! Pull on the handbrake! Switch off your lights! Stay with your car!…
> Now, would you happen to be pro- or antisecco? I’m definitely for the former, especially if it’s from Matthias Wolf’s vineyard in Lörzweiler…
> Despite having become a recognised expert on things nephological, I have no explanation for this phenomenon. And this is only PART of it. Imagine this as the left hand…
> Great crop of wild mushrooms this year. Out in the hills on the bike today and found loads. Checked in my edible mushroom book and they all look pretty…
> Ripping along the river the other week with the Prof on one of our heroic bike rides when we almost bowled over this trio. Prof barely dodged them and…
> You can do 2 things. You can go to one of the ubiquitous bakery chains and buy a roll with the consistency of cirro-cumulus enveloping a slice of plastic…
> Is it a plane? No, it’s Bicycle Repair Man! That’s what the sign outside the corner shop in the Kirchstrasse in Gonsenheim says. Inside, you’ll find Fred Willem who…
> Evidently one of the students from the European Business School, an elite college in the Rheingau, which hit the tabloid headlines the other day with lurid reports of…
> The various Mainz city coats of arms in the town hall, starting with Ebersheim at the bottom and doubtlessly ending up with Gonsenheim (with a halo) at the top.…
> I seem to have misunderstood the concept. I fronted up here last week on the bike, changed into my swimming togs and performed a fairly (for me) elegant entry…
> Jochen Rindt, the Formula 1 racing driver and 1970 posthumous World Champion died 40 years ago today. A brake-shaft failed at the end of the main straight during practice…
> …when I found out they were in an old folks’ home.” Exhibition in the foyer of the Rathaus (town hall) of large format photographs of centenarians, based on selection…
> …on the wallwho’s the ugliest sod of all?” The photographer, for sure. No doubt, as Omar would say… (Cool t-shirt, though) “Weinhaus zum Spiegel (mirror)”, Leichhof
> Minding my own business on the way to the market the other day when the water normally issuing from the fountain miraculously parted in front of me.. Stopped. Took…
> Open Air Market. Thanks a bunch. Of the 20,000+ digital images I’ve got stored on iPhoto, in excess of 19,500 (I think..)are of the market in Mainz. Lazy as…
> That’s not him on the wall – that would be Saint Vincent after whom the hospital originally housed in this building was named. Saint Vincent of Saragossa was one…
> Samira runs the wonderful everything-Italian-with-some-French-stuff-thrown-in-for-good-measure stand on the market, with a little help (Saturdays only) from Alessandro, a waiter we know from our local Italian restaurant. Asked Samira if…
> Rocked on down to the Frankfurter Hof in Mainz last night to finally see Little Feat. Never got to see them during the Lowell George period – he’s…
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