> No sooner have we got Karneval behind us than Easter’s just around the corner. Thinks: Would be, given that Karneval marks the start of Lent and Lent finishes at…
> Know a word without “c”? “Alohol” And I tell you what – Mainz went through copious quantities of this stuff on Monday Monday being Rosenmontag – Rose Monday: the…
> if you’re 25. And can add up without a calculator….. Signage at Mainz Main Station
> It’s not that I don’t LIKE Karneval. It’s just that I have NO IDEA about what’s going on. I’m rather partial to some aspects of the madness, though Apfelkrapfen,…
> …to make those eyes at me for…..? Emile Ford and the Checkmates – 1959 [Listen] Town’s chock full of places selling Karneval kit. This place is normally an ice…
> If the cheese lady hadn’t put out free samples at the market the other day, I would never have discovered Gourmino, a really stunning Swiss cheese. Mature but not…
> Carnival AND Ditsch’s pretzels in a single image. Can’t get much hardcore Mainz that that, eh? Talking of icons. Or “Ike and”s Went to see Tina Turner last night…
> Not that I can read it, of course. Not even the bits that are in focus… Thinks: Wasn’t there a TV series with Tom Selleck…? Inscription in the cathedral
> …with my little eyeSomething beginning with “P” “Poplars!”No, they’re birches.“Plue sky!”Stop being silly“Post with a lamp on!”Now you’re being REALLY silly“OK, I give up…” It’s a pollutant measuring station,…
> ….it’s a Jaguar, and I’ll get you to the plane on timeDrinkin’ Lone Star, play guitar, we’ll have a real good time Texas Rose Cafe – Little Feat [Listen]…
> …valentined. OK. So it’s a couple of days late. So….?
> OK, so this is definitely NQM (Not Quite Mainz) and decidely waaay off track, but it’s too good to just skim past. Jan Liefers is a German actor with…
> On regular occasions, you’d be forgiven for thinking that whole suburbs are being evicted on the same day. Nothing of the kind. It’ll be Sperrmülltag – the inorganic waste…
> Don’t believe a word of it. BITS of the cathedral are 1000 years old – this tower and the matching one on the other side, for instance – but…
> This is one of the less WTF installations at Mainz’s Art College – a Heath Robinson/Rube Goldberg contraption with an endless film loop projecting a marginally moving image onto…
> Not actually flying off the lot at the moment…..
> All for you, as Sister Hazel would say….
> …what manner of feathered creature be this? It’s always a good idea to keep moving when one’s out and about in the fields around here. Not if this is…
> Who says advertising doesn’t work? The Art College in Mainz plastered their exceptionally eye-catching poster for their “Rundgang” (“Doing the rounds”) open day all over the city and it…
> Saturday morning grocery bill: €46.23 Having the cashier say “Unbezahlbar” when she scans your little boy and hands him back to you: Priceless. There are some things money can’t…
> There should be 1000. That’s how old Mainz’s cathedral (built by Bishop Willigis, who practiced with St Stephan first) is and 2009 is going be one big bash (sort…
> Difficult times around here, what with caffeine withdrawal symptoms and stuff….. The TSOW has been noticeably absent for a bit while the proprietors splurge their profits in Capetown…
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> The SATTOTH (Subdivision At The Top Of The Hill) is coming along quite spiffingly. The big machines at rest look quite pastoral compared with what they’ve done to the…
> My mate Frank the Potter is a magician, really. He takes a lump of soggy clay, puts it on a rotating wheel and makes a pot. With his hands.…
> The queue almost went out of the door and around the block. The state lottery’s jackpot was up to €35/$50 million/£40 million/NZ¢100 million and the place went mad. Someone…
> As I was pathing (sorry about that – irresistible…) through town the other day, I reflected on the wisdom (or lack of) of getting out your shovel and having…
> In a past life, I used to be in the business of helping airlines get bums on seats, as it’s so delicately described in the business. (Check-in agents are…
> ….how? Invasion of the Littlies from up the road
> There are, in fact, 5 bridges connecting Mainz with (boo, hiss) Hessen. Which is what happens when you’re on one side of the river and they’re on the other.…
> It must be about time – 200 years or so since they last gave it a splash of Dulux… The Augustiner Church in – you’ve guessed it – the…
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