>This rather enigmatic sculpture graces the banks of the Rhine in Mainz. I wonder what she’s thinking about?
> There is a flock of sheep in Bretzenheim! Even though Mainz is classified as a city, the capital city of Rhineland-Pfalz no less, in some respects it maintains the…
>Normally woodpiles around here are stacked with jenga-like precision (at the start of game), so this would qualify as particularly ‘free-form’. The texture and colours appealed to me.
>This weekend has been sightseeing-tastic. We had a visitor come to stay, so we trotted around the city ticking off the sights. The Dom (Cathedral) is one of the big…
>It is fun fair time on the banks of the Rhine again. Ferris wheel – check.Merry go round – checkDodgem cars – checkCoconut shy – check
> jb has talked about the Heuensäule (Giant’s Column) before, so I hope I’m not doubling up here. I have lived in Mainz for almost a year, and have wandered…
>…playtime that is. This playground is hidden away on a cycle way/footpath in Mainz-Bretzenheim. I’ve never seen any children playing on the equipment. No wonder the paintwork is still in…
>The Rheinland-Pfalz Austellung rolls around again. Big consumer thingie, a bit like the Easter Show in Auckland when I was growing up, but without the sheepdog trials and displays of…
>Seeing the church spire and the satellite dish immediately made me think of the wonderful Richard Feynman and his “Inconceivable nature of Nature” YouTube clip. Watch the entire 5:44 and…
>Figure this. If it hadn’t been for Johannes Gutenberg, we probably wouldn’t have been able to read the signs on the buildings behind his statue. We’d still be identifying services…
>I really like Mainz, but “metropolis” isn’t a term you could honestly associate with the place. Except when it comes to parking fees. Right up there with Munich and Hamburg.…
>Or was it “The knight in shining armour”. St Martin reloaded, at any rate – a by-product of a night on the town with Frank the Potter Tags: Mainz, Saint…
>I’m all at 6’s and 7’s over this. This being Mainz’s new Kunsthalle (literally: art hall) which officially opened at the weekend and attracted throngs, including some rather inept avant-garde…
> …is a friend indeed. 14 of them, in fact. The Fourteen Holy Helpers (street sign here in Gonso and the name of the chapel where Magdalena‘s Mum and Dad…
>Mrs jb and Frank the Potter‘s wife, Ingrid, toddled off to the ballet in the Staatstheater in Mainz (foyer above) yesterday evening, leaving Frank and I with instructions of a)…
>Shortly after I moved to Germany way back in mumble mumble, I showed a girl I went to school with a map of where I was living. “What’s all the…
>The Kunsthalle opened in Mainz on Saturday, more of which later during the week. More people than you could shake a stick at yesterday (was going to write “every bastard…
>…..isn’t something that you’d often find in advertisements over here. There’s still a lot of numbing awfulness around, but ones like this play on words show that there’s hope Literally:…
>…between art and vandalism. The eye of the beholder, as usual….. Adelaide, Australia by Gordon, Albuquerque (NM), USA by Helen, Aliso Viejo (CA), USA by Rodney, American Fork (UT), USA…
>Definitely a case of “hold your breath, zip down the alley, take a picture and run back out before exhaling” Crikey, they must have been skinny back then. Just like…
>Getting around Mainz is dead easy. Walk (lots of pedestrian precincts and it’s not that big) Bike (remind me to tell you about the rules they have here sometime) Car…
>There’s German. And then there’s dialect. Potatoes are Kartoffeln. In Hochdeutsch – High German They’re also Erdapfel – “earth apples”, which is also what the French call them – Pommes…
>..just sound onomatopoetically distasteful. “Smear”, for example. To stain by or as if by spreading or daubing with a sticky, greasy, or dirty substance To stain or attempt to destroy…
>Until the sun gets its skates on and achieves a decent elevation in order to spread its rays over the lip of the canyon that is the Augustinerstrasse, I won’t…
>This might be somewhat macabre and in (the usual) bad taste, but the first thing that came to mind when walking past the Senior’s Village in Gonsenheim this afternoon was…
>Not really. Before we all get frantic and de-mothball the lawnmowers, this is winter wheat. Sow it in autumn, it germinates before winter sets in and then takes a low…
>People appear to have secateur-fever at the moment. Snip, snip, snip… Can’t get away from it. First it’s the grapevines. Now it’s the pollarded plane trees along the banks of…
>It’s time to get out into the vineyards and finish off the pruning. Do it to early and you risk frost damage. Leave it too late and you risk bleeding…
>.. said Cameron Leslie about his sisters at one stage. Could say the same about Christoph and Uschi Niklas’s 3 kids. Susie has Lucy (4) and Kalle (2) , Sonja’s…
>“The Queen” ,in this case, is a very regal rubber duckie and a (the?) central figure in Kerstin Agger‘s “Die Königin reist” project. Kerstin’s an artist based in Bad Münster…
>..at the market on Saturday. Think he’s in training for the REAL THING Tags: Mainz, Joe Cool, sunglasses, market
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