> …of looking at old roofs. This is 200 years old if it’s a day. You can keep your shiny lotus-effect blue tiled roofs. Our neighbour’s got one. It hurts…
> ..Snooty-Looking Person. In the Cathedral.
> Those rascally Brasilians copy everything. Not content just to nick Carnival, they’ve even paved the Copacabana just like the Steingasse here in Mainz. Lacks authenticity, though. Their’s is populated…
> Not that I can read it, of course. Not even the bits that are in focus… Thinks: Wasn’t there a TV series with Tom Selleck…? Inscription in the cathedral
> Don’t believe a word of it. BITS of the cathedral are 1000 years old – this tower and the matching one on the other side, for instance – but…
> There should be 1000. That’s how old Mainz’s cathedral (built by Bishop Willigis, who practiced with St Stephan first) is and 2009 is going be one big bash (sort…
> It must be about time – 200 years or so since they last gave it a splash of Dulux… The Augustiner Church in – you’ve guessed it – the…
> …looks bloody unsafe to me” “And it’s perched right above my head” Thus spoke a very nervous looking gargoyle on the facade of the new Markthäuser
> …through the alley. (Robert Palmer with half Feat plus a Meter or 2. Listen here) Very starkly designed townhouses in Gonso. B&W matched the mood today. Never thought I’d…
> ..who only stand and wait. If you have shutters on an older property around here, you’ll also have these little chappies lurking around your windows Quite self-explanatory, really….
> …when the stonemason engraves his URL on his work. On the corner of the newly opened Markthäuser on the cathedral square
> Mollers restaurant perched atop the Staatstheater is an eyecatcher at the best of times, but never better than on a cloudless day. Which is what today isn’t. Nor…
> The cat and the fiddle, The dog jumped over the ……balloon? Eh? Something wrong there. Here’s the original Hey diddle diddle, The cat and the…
> If you’re a Prominent Person in Mainz (or you’ve reached an adequate level of notoriety, which might in fact be the same thing, come to think of it), you’re…
> ..in the Big City, says the lady with the husky voice at the start of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour (on XM) This isn’t even a little city.…
> Years ago, I worked with a girl who insulted me to core by claiming in a v. derogatory voice that my culinary skills “probably didn’t even stretch as far…
> The Proviantmagazin (Commissary) is a classic White Elephant story.It was originally planned in 1860 as a grain storage facility and wartime bakery for the troops stationed in Mainz.In those…
> …you’ll find them everywhere. This used to be Schorch Lautner’s legendary gallery in the Augustinerstrasse. Long gone, both of them.
> A slightly PSed “Maison de France”, the home of the Institut Francais on the Schillerplatz in Mayence. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants The rest of the…
>I know a couple of professors. One of them is fairly new at the job, so he hasn’t cottoned on to the fact that you have to constantly wail and…
>Not only do they do a good graveyard in Germany, they also love a ‘statement’ door. This door graces the entrance of an apartment building opposite the Karmelite Church in…
>If there’s one thing they like around here, it’s “Ordnung” Which you can roughly translate as “order”, “orderliness” or “tidiness”. There are whole BOOKS on the subject – this translation…
>I really like Mainz, but “metropolis” isn’t a term you could honestly associate with the place. Except when it comes to parking fees. Right up there with Munich and Hamburg.…
>I’m all at 6’s and 7’s over this. This being Mainz’s new Kunsthalle (literally: art hall) which officially opened at the weekend and attracted throngs, including some rather inept avant-garde…
> I was never quite sure what these conical structures on the Tritonplatz were. Cold war-era missile silos that weren’t dug quite deep enough, exposing the nosecones to the elements?…
>That’s what it seemed like the other Saturday morning in Mainz Not that I’ve seen the film, of course, but – if I’ve got it right – it’s all about…
>The Zitadelle from below. Being a bit of a purist from the Cartier-Bresson school, I rarely crop or PS stuff. But this is what a bit of tweaking in iPhoto…
>Here’s our good friend Johannes Gutenberg keeping an eye on the Mainz State Theatre – the Staatstheater.(It used to be called the City Theatre – Stadttheater – but obviously got…
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