Laying new tram tracks in the Gaustrasse isn’t as simple as it looks, it appears. You don’t just dig everything up, whack in new metal and Bob’s your uncle… No,…
I have an excellent recipe for a fresh pea soup, which I’m most happy to share if you’d care to send your address on the back of a €100 (or…
In my mind, Birkenstocks are indelibly associated with müsli eaters, political protests and unshaven armpits. I evidently haven’t moved with the times, because Ms jb informs me that they’re now…
In New Zealand, there’s no greater achievement. Once you’ve played for the national Rugby team, it’s not “Oh, he used to be an All Black”, it’s “He’s an All Black”…
The Ober-Olmer Wald is a 350ha patch of woodland that was – until 1991 – used by the US military for training. These days, it’s criss-crossed with walking, cycling and…
I first met Phillip (r) and Leon (l) at their Eulchen pop-up store in the Gaustrasse in November 2013, they’ve gone on to taking over an unused kiosk in the…
Leonidas Lazaridis und Philip Vogel started their Eulchen beer concept way back in 2013. It bubbled away under everyone’s radar for a while until they took over the lease of…
…blowing bubbles. The bubble machine at the Eulchen and Friends Biergarten in the courtyard of the Kurfürstliches Schloss (Electors’ Palace). Eulchen beer, wine from the Weinraumwohnung, catering from Brits KWIZIN,…
I think it’s with a “K”. (It’s not. I’ve changed it) Paul Bonna at the ever excellent Kaffeekommune is a dab hand at choosing good staff. This is Carina, born…
…is excellent. A while back, I’d have been stuck in this. Now I just observe from the bike path… Thinks: No, I used to LEAVE in the dark and come…
The Catholic church gets up my nose on occasion with some of its medieval attitudes. Not my problem, of course. Let the adherents to the faith sort it out. But…
Van Gogh did some eyeball pleasers. He must have been a pencil squeezer. He didn’t do the Mona Lisa, That was an Italian geezer. The Summer Academy in Mainz appears…
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung is an excellent national Sunday newspaper. It’s just that they don’t know sh*t from clay when it comes to forecasting the Bundesliga. Just look at last…
Stumbled over these littlies at the Piccini icecream parlour in Nieder-Olm the other day. Cute icecream concoctions – one a snowman, one the Biene Maja, an animated film character and…
Alternative title: “A bit seedy” Odile‘s in Gonso
The old Customs building at the river port, a fine example of creative conversion and now housing start-ups and media companies. The rest of the area will be growing apartments…
..are Nature’s opposition to the gardener’s regime” Couldn’t have put it better myself. Seen at Odile Landragin‘s paradise in Gonso
The concerts I go to these days tend to attract the follically-challenged. Definitely the case with Hubert von Goisern and Dylan, less so in the case of John Hiatt. Dad…
Well, price and product don’t really apply, but promotion, and place? Brother, did this guy get THOSE two right…. The Schottenhof at the bifurcation (if you’re ascending) or the confluence…
Littlies’ photo session at the Gaugass Fest the other day. Er, week. Er, month
…”A Midsummer’s Night”, by Wm. Shakespeare. Er, no. It’s actually Zettel’s Theater, a local troupe of thespians, who do an annual Shakespearean season in wineries and churches. This performance was…
Liesel Metten, who lives in Nieder-Olm, 4km down the B40, is more than a local hero. You’ll find her mythical and whimsical bronze figures in town squares and unexpected corners…
……”Bring on the cavalry”, you’d be dead wrong. Also if you’re thinking of the English Civil War. Royalists, Roundheads and such. A “Kavalier” is an architectural term, being a firing…
.. these window cleaners at the MED-Centre in the Wallstrasse must be on the verge if canonisation
This detail of a window designed (and perhaps even made) by Marc Chagall in the St Stephan church at the top end of Mainz always brings me back to a…
If you look closely at the top of the column in St Stephan, you’ll identify a truncated whateverit’scalled. (It’s actually a remant of the groin vault that was integral to…
Got chatting to these folk (who were deciding – in English (OK, American…) – who was going to sit in the sun and who was going to get the shady…
Wednesday in Mainz 05’s ancient Bruchweg stadium to see a pre-season test game against Lazio Roma. 2 of Christoph’s 7 grand-kids (Grace and Freya, 7 and 5) had turned up…
A vehicle with two wheels in tandem, usually propelled by pedals connected to the rear wheel by a chain, and having handlebars for steering and a saddle-like seat. Right, so…
Well, on second thoughts – maybe not….. Zipping through Mainz yesterday, locked up the brakes to avoid this young lady, standing innocently in the middle of the bike path on…
Lazio Roma is invariably a serious contender for championship honours in the Italian Serie A football league. Mainz 05’s ambition – declared annually – is just to stay in the…
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