>These places give me the heebie jeebies. Packed with the female variety of the species, getting all breathless over stuff that’s utterly surplus to requirementsIt might be that I don’t…
>Walnut derives from Old English wealhhnutu, literally “foreign nut” (yes, I’ve been called that in my time), wealh meaning “foreign” (wealh is akin to the term “Welsh” The previous Latin…
>“No-one to be seen and certainly nothing growing” Hint: Depends on the emphasis Tags: Mainz, Region, Klein-Winternheim, Views
> No exaggeration. Hildegard of Bingen. Abbess, artist, author, counselor, linguist, naturalist, scientist, philosopher, physician, herbalist, poet, activist, visionary and composer. She’s been referred to by at least one modern…
>… and follow the B42.” “She” being the Becker Satnav system. Neglecting to mention, of course, that there’s not actually a direct connection between the B9 and the B42. Unless…
>These were just too good not to share. But that’s the last one. Promise!
>Just around behind the cathedral, you’ll find the Choral House – Chorhaus am Dom – used by the cathedral choir for practising. From the tag, it appears that someone’s definitely…
> There was just too much good stuff in the run-up to Christmas that I’m even drifting past 12th Night. But some things are worth the wait. This one gets…
>…is something that I don’t really “get”, despite having lived here for a bit. It appears to involve dancing girls, excessive rowdiness, inane songs, vast quantities of alcohol and significant…
>Crikey, they’re a fertile bunch….! Christoph and Uschi have 3 excellent kids – Stephan, Susie and Sonja – and they together have 3 excellent grandkids – Lucy, Kalle and Magdalena…
>The Vertical Village by night during the Christmas season. Pretty, eh You wouldn’t believe some of the stuff that happens here, though. Sometime over Christmas, neighbours of an apartment started…
>I don’t really care for the Christmas Market in Mainz. Tends to be too full of cheap mulled wine stands, festive candle purveyors, knick-knack sellers and sausage-on-a-stick merchants for my…
>The Lions tend to attractive good community-minded people wherever they go and Mainz is no exception. Our friends at Caffea Moguntia gifted us the Lions Advent calendar (I guess for…
>Summer would be a good idea right now. Weeks of low clouds and fog and cold, followed by normal clouds and cold. So yes, summer would be good. But Anja…
>Street names around here are frequently derived from their original – mostly medieval – trade associations. The Badergasse’s no exception. The Bader (Bad = bath) were barbers, quacks and hot…
>This is quite unusual. Official notices around here are usually just that. Official. This one’s on a kiddies playground in the Bädergasse and it’s such a refreshing change. Hi kids,…
>I guess I might have been tempted to pick something else, but popular demand decrees that I recycle this one. Again. Ho hum Hope the rest of the gang’s got…
>Is there no limit to her fame…?
>The Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung – one of the better quality broadsheets on the market and the only decent Sunday newspaper – runs an appeal at around this time of year…
>The ever excellent Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ran a DIY Christmas tree decoration article last Sunday with reader contributions to cut out, paste on cardboard and hang on the tree. One…
>Perhaps not QUITE up to the standard of the National Christmas tree in Washington or the Norwegian Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square in London (supposedly the most famous Christmas tree…
> Didn’t get one, of course…. (But we did get a white Christmas. Just.
>Somewhat chilly around these parts? Well, yes…. Daytime temperatures below freezing for pretty much all of last week – down to -6ºC at night – and a classy hoar frost…
>Quite the festive colour combination, I thought…..
>Not sure what was more crowded this evening – the Christmas Market or the Bach Christmas Oratoria in the cathedral. We gave the cheap mulled wine stands, festive candle purveyors…
>If I’d know it was THIS easy, I’d have started the series 4 weeks ago….. And if I’d been REALLY clued up, I would have followed Johann Wichern’s example and…
>For someone who likes sage as much as I do, this is a pretty grim time. And yes, I refuse to use ANY sort of dried herbs. If I wanted…
>The Advent wreath started out pretty much as the Christmas equivalent to the “When do we get there?” chorus from the kids as soon as you leave the driveway on…
> This is tricky. Could be a Dresden Daily Photo. If there was one, that is. (That’s where Ute Grossmann’s from.) Could be a Darmstadt DP. There is one. (Gloria…
>What organisms cause galls? Most galls are caused by fungi (particularly rusts and smuts) or invertebrates. Prominent among the latter are aphids, mites, psyllids, gall-midges (Cecidomyiidae), gall-flies (Tephritidae), gall-wasps (Cynipidae)…
>I just don’t get it. The world is full of shits and Lorenz Schuster has to die. Blogged Hildegard, his wife, way back in March and – although I believe…
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