>Driving down past what used to be the “Mainz – South” station (now renamed to Mainz – Roman Theatre” is like entering a canyon. The Lampenfabrik was always there, the…
>Not the best thing around this time of year. 4wd would be significantly better. Winter tires are de rigeur, anyway. (Have a prang in the snow and you’ll soon find…
>This is just the coolest idea. You download a minute chunk of software onto your mobile, take a photo of the Semacode matrix on the information boards scattered around Mainz…
>The Mainzer Volksbank belongs to the very-Central-European institution of cooperative banks. Germany has a number of banks governed by public law, privately-owned banks and cooperative banks, owned in effect by…
>…look left again. Good thing I did. These boys hit 80kmh according to tags on the series I took and the extrapolation from the distance covered between frames. Through a…
>Quite tasteful, in fact…
>I do like the Christmas season. (And the Hannukah season. And the Kwanzaa season. Not wanting to marginalise anyone…) The stench delicate fragrance of a vile subtle mix of cinnamon…
Flour Sugar Quark Baking powder Ground hazelnuts Sliced almonds Raisins Currants Nutmeg Cardamon Candied citrus peel Eggs Quark A glugglugglug of rum A mere tad of butter… Thrash around in…
>OK Easter’s early next year. I KNOW that. But coloured eggs on the market in December is just silly…..
>…as Ry Cooder would say. The big energy conglomerates have got the market nicely stitched up. Split the market geographically into 3 regions and don’t compete with the local squire,…
>Well, there are bridges and bridges… Went to see local blues guitar hero Timo Gross the other night and we got chatting and I took some photographs – some grainy…
>€38,000,000$56,000,000£27,000,000¥6,156,000,000Zimbabwe $34,124,000,000 That’s this week’s lottery jackpot. Paid as a lump sum. Tax free. Severe silliness
>Originally: The stables of the neighbouring Prince Elector’s palace, crowned with a massive gold-plated copper stallion* which led to its being called “The Golden Horse Barracks” Then: Destroyed in world…
>Better late than never… Tricky getting an image of Chagall’s windows in St Stephan’s. Try to take a picture from inside the church and they’ll burn you at the stake,…
>ist wunderbar! A dog’s life doesn’t appear to be that bad, after all…. Update: Perchance a little short on information.Located at one of the few (and very strictly regulated) outlet…
>Got a call yesterday afternoon from our friend, Petra Bittl, the ceramics artist from Bonn. (Hugely talented and we were lucky enough to discover her before she achieved widespread recognition…
>I hereby declare Speyer to be a suburb of Mainz. Temporarily, at least. (It’s only a hop, skip and a jump of 80km or so down the road and the…
>The shopping arcade that links the Grosse Langgasse with the Schillerstrasse used to be as flash as a rat with a gold tooth. Put it this way: Mrs jb used…
>It’s quite surprising what one finds when one lurks the hedgerows around these parts. These are sloes, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa, which is a dead give-away that…
>OK, so we’ve got regular cabbage, red cabbage, sweetheart cabbage (I had to look that up – it runs under “Spitzkohl” – pointed cabbage), butternut and hokkaido pumpkins and swede.…
>Standing out in the road yesterday afternoon with ace reporters Hans-Willi and Birgit, rewarding ourselves for a good day’s work in the garden with an Eisgrub beer, we witnessed the…
>“Oliver” is a hairdresser in the Gaustrasse, just down from the Stefanskirche. Never been there – too expensive for me and too cheap for Mrs jb. There was another Oliver,…
>..and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, I baptise thee Johannes. Gutenberg, that is. This is St Christopher’s in the centre of Mainz, first documented in 893 as…
>This is Fiat’s “new” (very retro) 500 model. Turned up at the dealers here last weekend – one per dealer. Just like that. No brochures, no price. Nothing. Well, what’s…
There are two ways of harvesting grapes You go through the lines of vines with your team, cut off each bunch and snip out the unripe grapes, the mouldy ones,…
>The Eisgrube (Eis = Ice: Grube= Pit) in Mainz fulfilled the same function as an icehouse (Check out Minette Walters’ thriller by the same name – it’s excellent). It was…
>“Now, I don’t want to get on a rant here” Dennis Miller would say. Smoking restrictions are gradually creeping across the land. The politicians could ignore the trend for much…
>I was having a bit of the moan the other day, envying my mate R&R in the Netherlands his proximity to the sea. He, in return, wished for vineyards just…
Yet more accolades… Folks DO seem to like this image. First it gets chosen for an online tourist guide for Frankfurt. Now it’s gone and won a prize in a…
>Well, they tried covering it up, but it didn’t work.. The tatty tarmac job that someone slung on top of the brick surface of the Stefansstrasse, leading from St Stefan’s…
>Darius Niklas works for the Iveco commercial vehicle dealership as a mechanic and is on their 24 hour Roadside Assistance team. How he finds time to garden as well, I…
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