>The traditional accompaniment to Federweisser is Zwiebelkuchen or onion flan. Standard fare in virtually every wine bar around here from September until well into October. Wildly varying quality and price,…
>No, not George W. Bush’s lot. The Germany-for-the-Germans, seal-the-borders-and-kick-out-the-foreigners, extreme right wing splinter party (i.e 1% of the total vote and shrinking) held a conference (about 800 delegates) in the…
>It’s Federweißer time! Yippee! Winemaking goes something like this. Pick the grapes and crush them to extract the juice, add yeast and let it bubble away until the sugar’s been…
>If there was ever a German marketing success story in recent years, it has to be that of Fielmann, the chain opticians. Up until 1981, there were exactly 8 different…
>I’m not sure if this rediscovery will in future rank up there with the Roman ships and the amphitheatre, but it certainly caused a kerfuffle on the market today. The…
>My mate Christoph’s 60th birthday last week. Stephan, his son who’s an architect in Ireland, cornered me a while back and said that he was going to do his usual…
>Brand new organic supermarket arrives in the space vacated by Saturn, one of the big electronics places, next to Kaufhof. Inconvenient that the newspapers are currently full of articles on…
>If you’re like me and somewhat easily confused, signs like this are a blessing sent from heaven. They prevent one, for example, from turning up at K. Schäfers’ premises and…
>Very obliging of the chappy in the car to light up the Gaustrasse for me the other evening. St Stephans (of Chagall fame) at the top of the hill. (Puff,…
>I especially liked the way these three iMacs were lined up at the Apple Store in London. Eh? CEMETERIES? I thought the theme was SYMMETRY….! Bugger! I appear to have…
> …organic. Why is it that organic veges mostly look pretty shitty? Y ou got to Alnatura and see the faithful buying a wizened parsnip or two and paying a…
> “We mostly open at 5 or 6 pm, sometimes at 11am and then again, sometimes at 1 or 2pm. We mostly close at around 1 or 2 in the…
>…in that tone of voice.“ Half-jokingly, I said that to Dad once. Just once. (That was back in the days before physical punishment was frowned upon.) But don’t pansies sometimes…
>…me Kurth The name of this outfit gave me instant flashbacks to Johnny Weissmuller, but it’s really a hearing aid/aural protector retailer in the Schillerstrasse Very 80s
>There was a smashing noise and everybody stopped to look. At the toddler in the pushchair, looking quite forlorn at the pattern of Smarties sprinkled across the cobblestones of the…
>Sugar beet fields with the refinery merrily steaming away in the background Sugar beets used to be one of THE crops around here. Still is, with 25 million tons produced…
>Not if you’re a guest at Cafe Dinges in Mainz, though. The first thing you’ll see when you come in the door will really get your tail wagging…. 2 bowls…
>It’s getting darker by the day in the mornings, but when we look out onto the deck, it’s almost as if someone’s splashed day-glo ™ paint on this maple Tags:…
>Images removed on request of subject Elsig Daily Photo anywhere out there? No, I didn’t think so, either…. (Although there IS an Elsig blog which has nothing to do with…
>I was tempted to do a “John Whatley” – (you know – “Aren’t we lucky people..!), but it’s pretty self-evident when you figure that is just ONE of the cheese…
>Not very often, though. This chappy’s been on our roof since my 50th birthday – 9 or so years now. Wasn’t an easy task to get it, says She, and…
>….when massed chrysanthemums appear on the market. Although a Fall trip to New England a couple of years ago had me confused for a while. “Mums for sale” signs all…
>This is one of those things that can only happen in Mainz.(Not that outrageous things don’t happen elsewhere…) There’s a guy on the market who sells eggs. Nothing else. Just…
>…but there’s no Frankfurt Daily Photo and I’m actually pleased as Punch at having this image from the Schirn Gallery in Frankfurt chosen for an online travel guide. It’s a…
>Living in the country, surrounded by fields and vineyards, we’ve got a fairly good variety of wildlife. A family of long-eared owls (Asio otus) colonised the birch tree in the…
>The Rugby World Cup is happening right next door in France. You wouldn’t notice. DSF, the national (commercial) sports channel did a big blurb about providing live coverage for all…
>Some shady character on the market sold this to Ms. jb while my back was turned. “But it’s hardy! That’s what he said, anyway” “Who’s “he”?” “That chappy over….. well,…
>Dig around here at your peril. These days, anyway. At one stage, you could get away with cultural murder. In 1884, for example. Laying a new track for a railway…
> It’s not a big surprise that Mainz shows distinct signs of having been fortified. Centuries (Centuries? Millennia…!) of Romans, Huns, Swedes, French, Austrians and sundry ratbags thrashing up and…
>“Aren’t we lucky people!” my mate John Whatley would say. We certainly are, having the Cascones just up the road. Michael (in the background) is the head honcho – the…
>I thought I was back in Kazakhstan. Or perhaps in Lapland. All of these white domed structures on the Gutenbergplatz. Were they yurts? Or igloos? Nope. Pavilions for the Gutenberg…
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