..has a silver lining. Der Hohe Dom zu Mainz (Mainz Cathedral to you…) reflected on wet cobblestones on the market
> “Now this certainly looks familiar…I wonder where I’ve seen it…?” Bronze model of Mainz Cathedral on the Liebfrauenplatz.
> ..and other Festive Illusions. It’s all going to be my fault, of course. We rocked on down into the Big Smoke last night for a Christmas concert in the…
> Why is it that pollarded trees (planes, I think. They don’t look very fancy, anyway…) remind me of ET. Or someone who’s had an argument with a circular saw.…
> Everyone ducked. “Was that the Concorde? Couldn’t be – it’s been mothballed” Oh, you mean the boom on the CRANE on the Domplatz… That’s OK then, I suppose.
>This weekend has been sightseeing-tastic. We had a visitor come to stay, so we trotted around the city ticking off the sights. The Dom (Cathedral) is one of the big…
>Not sure what was more crowded this evening – the Christmas Market or the Bach Christmas Oratoria in the cathedral. We gave the cheap mulled wine stands, festive candle purveyors…
>The cathedral square’s a bit of a mess at the moment. The construction work to replace the crumbling post-WW2 faux-medieval houses also involves ripping up swathes of cobblestones to lay…