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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…

2 August, 2015 at 10:48 2 Comments

21 Apr

>Running for the train – #1315

> Mainz Hauptbahnhof (They missed it…)

21 April, 2011 at 11:00 3 Comments

24 Feb

>Strike a light – #1259

> Brobdingnagianism at Mainz’s Academy of Arts.Last year.This year’s was such a well-kept secret that I didn’t find out about it until I couldn’t go any more.Rats.

24 February, 2011 at 12:00 3 Comments

17 Feb

>Shine a light I – #1252

> The floodlight towers between the Rathaus and the Rheingoldhalle. (Jockel-Fuchs-Platz, to give it its correct name) Tweaked just a tad. But only with iPhoto…. (Back in the day, of…

17 February, 2011 at 12:00 3 Comments

15 Feb

>These modern materials….#1250

> …don’t appear all they’re cracked up to be. Wilful damage to the Coneheads* on the Alte Universitätsstrasse *Aka as the conical decorative skylights for the lower levels of the…

15 February, 2011 at 12:00 2 Comments

12 Feb

>Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow- #1247

> Thomas Campion Said Thomas Campion. On yer bike, say I.

12 February, 2011 at 12:00 5 Comments

21 Jan

>"Waiting for …. -#1225

> ..my bus..Three Euros and twenty in my hand”HT Lou Reed and Gucki Bus stop at the top of the hill blinded bythe lightHT Bruce

21 January, 2011 at 12:00 5 Comments

20 Jan

>Self-portrait on stilts – #1224

20 January, 2011 at 12:00 5 Comments

18 Jan

>Unchain my………#1222

> … shopping trolley. Or cart. These high-tech thingies are daisy-chained and to release one, you need a €1 coin* for the slot. Can’t get far if you want to…

18 January, 2011 at 12:00 3 Comments

28 Dec

>I was under-sided….#1201

> …whether to post this utterly un-composed image. It actually came out better than I’d perspectived….

28 December, 2010 at 12:00 4 Comments

10 Oct

>All roads….-#1122

> ..lead to the drain. Market square in Mainz. Put it down to jet lag.

10 October, 2010 at 11:00 4 Comments

06 Oct

Please be seated – #1118

> As you can tell, the combination of jet lag (just get over it and it’s time to go home…), the constant search for affordable WiFi (Nelson airport this morning…

6 October, 2010 at 11:00 2 Comments

27 Jan

>In my next life.. – #866

> ..I think I shall be reincarnated as Joachim Brohm. (I could even keep my initials.) He’s a well-known (in Germany) photographer of industrial wastelands and marginal zones and the…

27 January, 2010 at 12:00 2 Comments

12 Oct

>Flossie – #760

> Ms jb, having turned mumblemumble earlier this year, was honoured by her Scrooge-like ever-generous employer in the form of a gift voucher for a wellness/cosmetic outfit. On which she…

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17 Sep

>Through a glass blearily – #735

> Back at Wagner-Stempel‘s open courtyard from the other day. (Shocking website and I’ve offered to do a words-for-wine barter translation deal, but he reckons that as they sell everything…

17 September, 2009 at 11:00 Leave a comment

09 Feb

>Rundgang – #699

> Who says advertising doesn’t work? The Art College in Mainz plastered their exceptionally eye-catching poster for their “Rundgang” (“Doing the rounds”) open day all over the city and it…

9 February, 2009 at 09:00 3 Comments

01 Feb

>February Theme Day – Paths and passages – #690

> As I was pathing (sorry about that – irresistible…) through town the other day, I reflected on the wisdom (or lack of) of getting out your shovel and having…

1 February, 2009 at 12:00 7 Comments

31 Jan

>Bums on seats – #689

> In a past life, I used to be in the business of helping airlines get bums on seats, as it’s so delicately described in the business. (Check-in agents are…

31 January, 2009 at 12:00 4 Comments

31 Dec

>January Theme Day: Best photo of 2008 – #660

> As good as any, I’d say. Here’s the original (Although a learned and quite genteel reader pointed out that it’s “artsy-fartsy”, not “arty-farty”. Whatever..) The other 150 are over…

31 December, 2008 at 23:01 7 Comments

23 Dec

>Worried about the economic cycle? – #651

> Worried about deflation? YOU’RE worried about deflation….?

23 December, 2008 at 12:00 6 Comments

30 Nov

>Ground level…#628

>As a contrast to yesterday’s ‘looking up’ photo, here’s what’s happening at ground level outside the Tourist Information Centre.

30 November, 2008 at 13:20 4 Comments

16 Sep

>Picasso – #553

> The annual wine festival in Hechtsheim, another of one of Mainz’s once-was-a-village-but-it-got-gobbled-up suburbs, last weekend. Not a lot to recommend it – the wine’s so dire that you ask…

16 September, 2008 at 11:00 1 Comment

19 Jun

>Leaving your mark – #454

>Trinkhallen (drinking halls) are ubiquitous in Germany. One of the ones close to the Hauptbahnhof in Mainz definitely leaves its mark, though. Patrons flip off their bottle caps onto the…

19 June, 2008 at 06:00 Leave a comment

24 May

>Artisan market…#428

>On a hot tip from Mrs jb, I took myself off to the Artisan Market today. As I was wandering around admiring everything, this rusty ironwork garden wall hanging thingy…

24 May, 2008 at 14:15 1 Comment

09 Mar

>Neon? Or Neoff? – #352

>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.…

9 March, 2008 at 14:10 1 Comment

03 Mar

>Pictures at an exhibition – #346

>The Kunsthalle opened in Mainz on Saturday, more of which later during the week. More people than you could shake a stick at yesterday (was going to write “every bastard…

3 March, 2008 at 07:20 2 Comments

22 Feb

>Plane madness – #336

>People appear to have secateur-fever at the moment. Snip, snip, snip… Can’t get away from it. First it’s the grapevines. Now it’s the pollarded plane trees along the banks of…

22 February, 2008 at 08:21 3 Comments

17 Feb

>Through any window – #331

>Willie Wisely says it best, of course. As ever. But photographically I’m more than happy with this (un-Photoshopped) view from the Grebenstrasse in the Altstadt. Looking through the Kanzel restaurant…

17 February, 2008 at 10:17 1 Comment

08 Feb

>If winter ever returns…322#

>…we’ll be ready. And who said that stacking firewood isn’t an art form? In fact, it should be an Olympic discipline. Has AT LEAST as much claim to inclusion as…

8 February, 2008 at 16:41 1 Comment