>So after Job’s wife was morphed into a pillar of salt, Job evidently also had a look back. He appears to have turned into a glass recycling container. Or was…
There’s no such thing as an “Oberwesel Daily Photo”, so I’m claiming the territory for MDP. The monastery in Oberwesel was built in 1240, 40 years after the Franciscans established…
>Another incendiary milestone in Mainz’s history – this one more physical than moral – is documented on the base of the Heuensäule From the official history of RAF Bomber Command…
>Big do at the Gutenberg Center (their spelling, not mine…), a greenfield site with a mega-supermarket and a mega-electronics store in Bretzenheim, yesterday evening. MediaMarkt (aforementioned mega electronics store) and…
>That’s what I thought, anyway. Postwar, slung-together, utilitarian apartment block, medieval building and the appallingly ugly Erbacher Hof in the background, looking like a set from one of Kevin Costner’s…
>Hans-Joachim Ströher runs the local Euromaster franchise – tires, wheel alignment, tech inspections, simple maintenance – in Hechtsheim. What a cool guy. Natural aura of authority, calm, competent, personable. If…
These three flossies must have been related to Job Lot (I stand anonymously corrected – check the comments). His wife, as you might recall, was instructed not to turn around…
>Being half a DINK, I’m pretty clueless when it comes to education around here, but the Maria Ward School for Girls in Mainz appears to be pretty good, both by…
>Adam Weber is a vintner in Bodenheim and the proprietor of the Urige (translates as natural, down-to-earth, real, authentic..) Weinkeller, a wine bar that’s open for 10 months of the…
>OK The female of the species and their offspring are instructed to take the detour. And we blokes? Are we meant to clamber over the fence and risk our lives…
>The bronze base of the Heunensäule documents significant events in Mainz’s history, this sculpture depicting the burning of the synagogues in the pogrom of 9-10 November 1938. Mainz has a…
>“Let there be broadband” might be more appropriate…. My ISP fell over yesterday, leaving significant chunks of the country disconnected from the rest of humanity. Hence the slight delay in…
>A late summer evening – threatening sky included – looking across the Schillerplatz down the Schillerstrasse, with the Carnival Fountain silhouetted acroos the night sky.
>It’s almost like painting the Golden Gate Bridge – finish at one end and start again at the other. That’s what this guy must feel like. I saw him a…
>A major retrospective of a major German artist, Jörg Immendorff, closed yesterday after a run of almost 2 months. 450 works, dating from 1968 to shortly before his death at…
>The Mainz Classic Automobile Rally hit the road yesterday. 90-odd entries ranging from a Bentley to a Fiat 500, more MGs and TRs than you could shake a stick at…
>The University in Mainz (actually the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz) dates back to 1477, receiving papal approval during the bishopric of Diether von Isenburg. This building (bang in the…
>A persisting urban myth is the quote ” At least he made the trains run on time” associated with Adolf.(Actually, it’s more correc tly attributed to a grudgingly appreciative Italian…
>Yeah, right…. Given the price of land around here, the social engineering that takes place in new sub-divisions (if you don’t live in the village, are young and have a…
>Shameless commercialism. Who cares. I was, though, quite chuffed that Frank and Ingrid chose 3 of my images for the invitation to their autumn/fall shindig at the pottery. The top…
>You know it’s getting close to autumn when you see colours like these…
>Mr Bumble Bee obviously doesn’t refer to Wikipedia. Otherwise he’d know to keep well away from Vitex (Vitex agnus-castus). Aka Chaste Tree, Chasteberry, or Monk’s Pepper, the latter being the…
>Talking of favourites… Sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) would be the favourite flower. Odile Landragin had some really healthy seedlings this year and they’re now growing up a tipi-type support, flowering…
> It’s a big ask when it comes to deciding on my favourite herb. We’ve got the standards – mint (5 varieties), broad-leafed parsley (is there really any other kind?),…
>Training session on the Klein-Winternheim football field the other night. No ref, only one goalie and 7 vs 8. But some rather smooth stuff being displayed – reverse passes, slick…
>“Abi” is short for “Abitur”, the German equivalent of University Entrance, A Levels or a High School diploma (although it’s more at the level of an associate degree at a…
>A single-track railway line links Mainz and Alzey, stopping in Gonsenheim, Marienborn, Klein-Winternheim, Nieder-Olm and a couple of other villages on the way. It’s an adequate enough service – once…
>The road from Ober-Olm to Klein-Winternheim is a real race-track. There’s a 50km/h limit, then it’s down to 30 limit next to the station, a chicane (which boy-racers all over…
>Axel Schmitt is an organic vintner in Ober-Hilbersheim, a mere hop, step and a jump from Mainz. He’s taken over the vineyard from his Dad, Berthold – shown here, doing…
>I’m not sure if I’ve worked this out correctly. I’m pretty sure I haven’t. This bulbous tricycle was parked next to Schott music publishers yesterday and it’s certainly a show-stopper.…
Schmiede Wettig in Nieder-Olm has been home to blacksmiths from 1577 until well into the last century. (It’s now preserved as a time-warped 1920s working forge). The stable and outbuildings…
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