> Don’t understand this stuff at the best of times (I lost track when “Kilroy was here” gradually disappeared from view and when people stopped writing “Clapton is God”) but…
Ticking over until summer drags in the tourists… – Posted using BlogPress
> Just gone done and won another prize…. The local city monthly “Der Mainzer” runs a photo competition sponsored by Saturn*, a big box consumer electronics outfit. This was “Refreshment”.…
> Skill sets on display at Villa Musica. Not many places in the world where you’re pretty much guaranteed of getting high levels of artisan skills. Here, for sure
> ….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…
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