>That’s how my Uncle John used to refer to the retirement village they were in, anyway. This is a brand new retirement home in Gonso. It’s a good looking structure…
>To be honest, I’ve never seen this machine on the road. Then again I don’t live in the Untere Zahlbacher Strasse in Mainz, where Juwi has its headquarters. Their slogan…
>In other words – lost. I found this confused-looking chappy stumbling around on the market on Friday. Based on the kit he was wearing, I think he might have been…
>Our village has been solidly Roman Catholic for ever, pretty much. The earliest reference in church records in Mainz date back to 1100 and the Franciscan nunnery relocated to Mainz-Weisenau…
>This is the Eckert family’s vineyard in the village. Definitely newcomers. A mere 9 generations of vintners. Only been here since 1696. The Franciscan nunnery had been gone 150 years…
>This is St. Andreas – St Andrew – seated in front of the eponymous church in our village and looking across over the Hauptstrasse (Main Street – yes, we have…
>This is the Sportverein 1919 Mainz-Gonsenheim, with the Vertical Village in its delicate pastel tones looking benevolently down from on high. They currently play in the Southwest Regional League which…
>No late frosts. Warm weather and lots of bees at blossom-time. No hail storms. (Yet…) Warm weather predicted for next week. If this keeps up, we could be in the…
>If you want to buy your monthly tram ticket at the newspaper kiosk in Mainz-Gonsenheim this morning, you’re out of luck. Yesterday was the last day in 32 years that…
>A splash of carved red coral that caught my eye in Odile Landragin’s garden yesterday.And here we all are again… Shanghai, China – Mumbai, India – New York City (NY),…
>I was looking at a map of Germany with the sister of a schoolfriend in New Zealand a couple of years back and she asked “What are all the green…
>This is a fine place for a nice coffee in the sun. Almost as good as the tin shed on wheels on the market, actually They’re open for breakfast and…
>Chestnuts in blossom, cloudless sky. Corner of the Eisgrubweg and the Stefansstrasse. It must be summer. Far from it. Cold with rain and showers forecast every day into the foreseeable…
>This is Zweibrücken Airport. International, no less, with 12 flights to Berlin, 5 to Mallorca, 3 to Antalya, 1 to Las Palmas, 1 to Tenerifa, 1 to Heraklion, 1 to…
>This is Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel Freiherr von Ketteler – the “Father of the Poor”, as he’s referred to in Mainz. Born in 1811, he was elected to the Frankfurt Assembly…
>I thought it was autumn, with Michaelmas daisies out already. But these are Erigeron, better known (or maybe not…) as fleabane. Or summer starwort, which is the name I shall…
> This is the overhanging roof of the Kleine Haus, the the State Theatre’s modern extension that was built between 1994 and 1997. Simple clear lines. No attempt to recreate…
>This this looks cool? Think buckets and buckets and buckets of them. T his is what summer’s all about. (Apart from cherries and strawberries, of course. And wheat beer.)
> I think that we used to have more of these trees around here. Don’t see them that often any more. One could say – only acacia-nally….
>So you’re going to have to tell me how far afield I’m allowed to wander and if this is OK. Ingelheim is just up the road from Mainz – 5km…
>This is my favourite road sign around here. Probably anywhere. Long, steep, winding hill, ending up in a village. I think they really want to say “Use low gear”, but…
>Just like with asparagus, it’s worth the wait. You can buy cherries from May onwards, but they’re likely from Italy or Spain and they’ll have been looking at the inside…
>No more asparagus from our local farmer. Season’s over. The crowns need a break to regenerate for next year’s crop. The cowboys will keep their black plastic out there to…
>— only another 2390km to go. This is a marker on the St James’ Way, the route of an ancient pilgrimage that stretches 2400km to Santiago de Compostela in northern…
>nd bThis could have been one for July’s Theme Day. (At a stretch) If I had a choice, I’d split my time between the garden, record stores, bookshops and the…
>We’re nothing if not environmentally aware around here and the State of Rhineland-Palatinate has a network of 31 emission monitoring stations, telemetering a whole bunch of data back to Mainz…
>Aka Lonicera periclymenum. Or Woodbine Or Eglantine Or Chevre feuilleOr HoneysuckleThis one came from my grandfather’s garden in North Yorkshire via my uncle’s garden in Oxfordshire and smuggled across to…
>There are worse places to hang out than at the market in Mainz. And I could quite happily blog on – day after day – only with images from the…
>The classic Mainz picture postcard view of the “Weinhaus zum Spiegel (Mirror)” with the spire of the cathedral on the right. The Spiegel – built in the 17th C, destroyed…
> It’s 11 June. 29 degrees Celcius on Saturday. 84 Fahrenheit. 302 Kelvin. Officially summer.Just. And WINTER FASHIONS are in the shops? Can someone help me understand this? Please?
>Here’s Matthias Rüppel from Mainz putting the finishing touches on the Ionic pillar which forms the central structure of his interpretation of “Europe at 50” Some folks expressed an interest…
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