>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…
>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,…
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