> The discount supermarkets in Germany have a huge market share – somewhere over 50%. You might then think that it’s all “pile it high and sell it cheap”…
Reinhilde Roth (on the right, with her sister Christine) runs the eponymous farm shop in the village. She started out with a tiny corner of her parents’ farmhouse, selling only…
> In the classic “I say tomato, you say tomato” tradition, we have 1. A subway. Or an underpass 2. A subway. Or a tube. Or a suburban metro railway.…
> In MemoriamTin Shed On Wheels So. Farewell then Tin Shed On Wheels For a while At least Until the Rands Run out And Mme M-D And M. Schwarz return…
> The new subdivision at the top of the hill isn’t going quite as smoothly as folk had hoped. Great rush to be placed on the waiting list, followed…
> All the candles on the Advent wreath* lit Merry Christmas *A beam rescued from a medieval half-timbered house, actually
> At least they don’t smell of cinnamon…
> What with all this snow (Frankfurt airport closed down completely yesterday and THAT doesn’t happen very often), I need something to keep me going until Spring. Especially seeing…
> I though you have to wait until Christmas Day to unwrap your pressies, but it appears to be different around here. The Johanniskirche, looking brand-spanking new, despite being extremely…
> Yummy! I refuse to partake of the cheap Glühwein and sundry overpriced/sub-standard dross of the Christmas Market, but the potato pancakes are a dream. The Goldies and post-Goldies…
> Image removed at the request of the parents Why is it that “The Locomotion” always springs to mind when I think of Eva, Mrs jb’s great-niece? Big day yesterday…
> Or “Fähigkeit“ Two flossies tra-la-la-ing and another playing a mean flute, adding an attractive note to the enduring ugliness of the Brand shopping centre
> Put a German to a word association test with “Dagobert” and they’ll be back in a flash with “Duck” Pronounced “Dook” Do the same with an American and “Donald”…
> …I’m just sooooo unphotogenic” said Julia, one of Doc Höffler‘s deputy torturesses assistants. “Well”, I said “if that’s the only blemish, I wouldn’t really worry about it” I sensed…
Drifting along Gt Marlborough Street in London the other week, minding my own business and (unsuccessfully) trying to prevent Mrs MDP from frittering away our last cents in expensive…
> How about that, then? A cast-iron manpersonhole cover AND cobblestones! Just how much “quaint” do you want? (Told you they put the city crest everywhere)
> Mainz appears to have ben discovered by Yoko Ono and Jeff Koons, although they appear to have run out of space and had to truncate Jeff’s name in the…
> Well, maybe a failed apprentice, then. The Johanniskirche nicely gift-wrapped for Christmas
> Now, either Disney’s opening a new theme park in Mainz or this group of elegantly attired folk mingling with the wildlife in P&C, a clothing store, has something to…
> At Doc Höffler‘s Don’t think he used any of them, actually. Felt more like a Black and Decker hammer drill…
> Won’t have to go to the market anymore, if I’ve got this worked out correctly. The City of Mainz has provided me with a way to visit the market…
> …ein Kerzlein brennt. 2, actually, seeing that now we’re into the 2 week of the traditional Christmas season. All being supervised by the enormously talented Beate Thiesmeyer‘s well-travelled (as…
> OK, meteorologically it’s still autumn, but when the sun shines on the market, it certainly doesn’t feel like it…
> Plus some tasteful Christmas decorations and the local version of Jack the Ripper. lurking in the shadows. And just to prove how metropolitan we are – a traffic light!
> The Burgundy market gives the folks from the twinned city of Dijon to come over for the day and flog their goodies. Including wine. No brown paper bags or…
> The view from the Theatre underground carpark to the old and new theatres.
> We’re nothing if not Politically Correct around here. (Did I hear some muted coughing in the background…?) Did you see it on the milk at Aldi the other day…
> © Caitlin Houghton Odile Landragin is a frequent topic of these pages, She’s an absolutely charming person with a lovely family and her garden is exquisite. Her 8 year…
> Roland Rother runs a car repair workshop in Lörzweiler. Someone recommended him for an arcane airconditioning problem with one of the Saabs a couple of years ago. He spent…
> Some people claim not to shop at Aldi. A bit downmarket, they say. (In England, middle class wimmin with higher aspirations have even been seen using Sainsbury and Waitrose…
> Not only do we have to endure another 4 weeks of mistletoe, the stench of cheap glühwein and Father Christmas “Ho, ho, ho”ing everywhere you look, but there’s the…
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