The other day, we featured a balcony full of rampant petunias threatening to take over the whole of a highrise block. The City of Mainz is going one better. It’s…
The Gaustrasse – the main route from town to the top of town – is a bit of a mess at the moment. The tram lines are in the process…
…er…provincial state capital, with all of its 200,000 inhabitants. Looking over towards Kästrich from the Eisgrubweg, with the spire of St Stephan in its place of prominence
Just BEING in a place like this gives me the heebie-jeebies. I’m convinced they’re all alien shift-shapers…
Petunias have their place (which is not, by the way, in an onion patch…), but they appear to be a tad invasive on this balcony in the Neustadt. The neighbour…
This’ll get the Parental filters going….. I’ve been friends with Kalle Sröckle for ages and a day, Ms jb closer to his wife for almost as long since she offered…
…having discovered America. When you go for a run through the woods in Ober Olm, you’d think that there was significant duplex peripateticism at the time. How else does one…
There are either swifts or swallows. Must be swallows because they were moving quite glacialy Not very …ahem …swiftly at all…. I’ll get my hat…
Some distinctively shady characters hang out in the Breidenbacher Strasse. Must be for the coffee
Tools of the trade for a slate maker
…fair, fat and wide” To be sung to Richard Wagner’s “Bridal Chorus” And then someone started shouting “Oi, you on the other side of the tram tracks! Sod off! You’re…
I’ll drink to anything…. Blasius Spreng’s “Fastnachtsbrunnen” on the Schillerplatz
The inventiveness of Mainz 05’s hard-core fans knows no bounds. Any vertical space is fair game, but thgs is creative – 19 on the left butress, 05 on the right…
Summer in the city back of my neck gettin’ dirty and gritty. Thus spake the Lovin’ Spoonful in 1966. Around here, it’s a series of open air concerts featuring some…
Mainz’s electrified tram network’s 111th anniversary celebrations coincided with the “Sommerfest in der Gaugass” (Subtitle: “Spass uff de Gass) on Saturday. Why 111? Well, it’s this fixation with the number…
The Osteiner Hof at the head of the Schillerplatz has a bit of history. Even for Mainz The Osteiner Hof (“Court of Ostein”) is one of several Baroque-era palatial mansions…
Annika, our neat new neighbour, invited a bunch of young mum friends around yesterday, so I got them to line the littlies – all around 12 weeks – up for…
Cold front came through on Sunday night, thumping into the North African high that’s been hanging around for a week or more. Proceeded to spawn tornadoes which ripped through a…
Popped in to see favourite website clients (and friends) Maria and Ute in Höhr-Grenzhausen on Monday (up there to talk to a new client) and they were over the moon.…
The Dionysos restaurant in the Germanikusstrasse is generally accepted as being the best Greek restaurant in Mainz. Tucked in behind the Kästrich and off the tourist track, you have to…
Bloody Germans, using “Haka” as a registered trademark. Not only is it a knock-off of Ha-Ra (the original micro-fibre cleaning concept), but they’ve usurped the Maori traditional ancestral war cry,…
The mercury hit 38°C )that’s 100.4°F in your money) yesterday. In the shade. In about 10 minutes, there will be no shade on the Schillerplatz, where these guys are upgrading…
Don’t those Germans just love their spuds…. This website lists around 300 “commercially relevant” varieties grown here The UK has 80…. The US probably only has the Idaho….. You’ll find…
A bit like a Scheurebe, but without the shyness.” Talk about plays on words….! The girls working at Eva Vollmer’s vineyard hoolie in Mainz-Ebersheim the other week wore a variety…
Ultra-athletes would undoubtedly be salivating over wall were it not constructed of crumbly sandstone. Terrassenstrasse, part of the Mainzer Actien Brauerei complex
Or Back to Front, more like it Mainz is twinned with more places than you can shake a stick at. Watford, for example. (Cousin Graham asked me whether anyone from…
Jürgen Winterberg knows about these things. He runs the meticulously researched bier-in-mainz.de website and has the history of the 78 breweries which have lived and died in and around Mainz.…
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