>I took myself off for a random bike ride yesterday and ended up in the Römerwall park. It is a peaceful stretch of green (yellow at the moment) between the…
>… I would have seen some blue sky today. I didn’t.
>The remains of the Roman aqueduct cut through Mainz-Bretzenheim. From everything I’ve read, the aqueduct would have been an imposing sight, reaching a height of approximately 25m in order to…
>I can’t quite decide whether this wall is a work of genius or madness. At the moment, I’m leaning toward madness.
>Now somebody has to sweep them up again. Tut, tut.
>…something Roman. Something black and white today, to match the weather. This is Emmerich-Josef-Strasse, as seen from Schillerplatz. This street runs up to the old Mainz Actien Brauerei and if…
>These plants come in every imaginable shade of pink, and given how prolific they are at the market, I would guess this is the season for them. Not having a…
>The Germans call it Pyramidenblumenkohl – I call it just plain freaky. According to the sign at the Market, it also goes by the name ‘Romanesco’. Now I wish I’d…
>…but happily today the sky was blue. With the onset of the cooler weather (it was around 5 degrees C this morning on my ride into school) my hands are…
>…and a little bit of the letter R, and a goodly portion of the letter T. Albeit, backwards (which is irrelevant for T, but you get the idea). This sculpture…
> … Need to cut the grass down at the farm. Only 7.5 acres. Handmower. Should take about a month. Helen’ll look after you while I’m away….
> Not really. Pierre et Liliane Gautard from Quemigny sur Seine were here the other week at the Burgundy market in Mainz. Mainz is twinned with every whatsit and his…
> Serious stuff, this apple picking business at Appel Happel in Lerchenberg. Following the mantra “Never carry more than you eat” (or is it the other way round?), we get…
> Don’t see many war memorials in Germany. Growing up in New Zealand, they were simply part of the cultural fabric of the country. Understandably when you figure that New…
> Being a cheap bugger, I don’t like paying for parking. I KNOW it’s cheap (US$2 an hour) compared with Manhattan, but it does tend to reduce the enjoyment level…
> You have strawberries and blackberries and raspberries. We have asparaberries. This is what happens when you let asparagus go to seed – I’m an expert at this, having first…
> I’m beginning to think I’m just following Helen around taking photos of the same things….oh well, never mind. Detail from the Fastnachtbrunnen (Carnival Fountain) on the Schillerplatz
> Phenomenal stuff from someone who didn’t start baking until she was in her mumble mumbles. (Think the Roman numeral is “C”. Or is it “L”? Probably “L”) Piece of…
> “Straighten up there, you horrible lot. Call yourselves soldiers – I’ve never seen such a scruffy bunch in all my ….. Oh, you’re not soldiers. You’re only WIMMEN…” The…
> Originally known as Castrum, this was the site of the Roman camp built in 90 CE. You can still see the foundations of the original city gate, preserved in…
> Bookshops aren’t about books. They’re about people. Borders isn’t a real bookshop as far as I’m concerned. It’s just the “mortar” bit in the “Clicks and Mortar” business model.…
> The cat and the fiddle, The dog jumped over the ……balloon? Eh? Something wrong there. Here’s the original Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the…
> Just a teaser. So you know where I’ll be hanging out on Saturday…
> “Social engineering” has a somewhat unpleasant ring to it. A bit like “ethnic cleansing” But I like what they’re doing here in the village. This is Monday’s ground-breaking ceremony…
> Vineyards on the outskirts of the village
> Ramblin Round at Selma, Ala. Daily Photo chose me to receive the Fabulous Fall Bloggers award for the “Last of the Summer Strawberries” picture the other day. A fair…
> I did cut it with my hatchet. In fact, I cranked up the bulldozer and bowled the whole bloody orchard….” Trees get old, yields drop off and varieties go…
> And yet another brewery that hung up its hops,as it were. Enough to make a geriatric adolescent cry…
> .. could love something as ugly as this. Celeriac or root celery. Most folks use it – together with leek, carrot and other root veges as the basis for…
> ..fruit on my müsli, we’re still harvesting strawberries. 23 October. Scraped ice off the car windscreen on Monday.
> Sugar beets waiting at the Sugar Beet Bus stop. From here they’ll be taken to a factory where they’ll be chopped up, soaked in water, squeezed semi-dry, dosed…
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