At this very moment, Ms jb is attending (as his personal guest) a reception at the town hall honouring Chief Inspector Theo Braunshausen’s 40th anniversary of manning the small police…
At the Gonsenheim market the other week doing “Still life with cabbages” (tomorrow, if I can’t find anything better) when this lady and her bicycle patiently waited while I finished…
More than you’d think. I stumbled over Butterbergreul, an alleyway in Gonsenheim, last year and try as I might, I couldn’t trace the origin of the name. Stumped. And I…
Uli (for Ulrike) Zawar is the owner of “Sonntagskind“, a shop that can’t make up its mind* whether it’s an espresso bar or a kiddy clothes shop. (*It doesn’t need…
This is going to be another one of those research projects. I just know it… The easy bit: “Reul“. A narrow passage between buildings, with its origin in the Latin “rivulus”.…
Detail on the Vertical Village aka “Elsa”, the highrises (as in “23-story-highrises”) that Ms jb manages in Gonso. HT to Wisely for continued enjoyment
> It’s no wonder that Nimmerland (the German translation of J.M. Barrie’s “Neverneverland” from “Peter Pan”), an independent bookshop for kiddies in Gonsenheim is thriving. And it’s no wonder that…
> St Stephan’s church in Mainz-Gonsenheim is just your common or garden church, but you wouldn’t know by just looking at it. The twin spires (invisible at night and in…
> ….and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good. (I’ve always liked Genesis. Especially the pre-Phil Collins era…) Verily it was good, too. The Lux…
> Is it a plane? No, it’s Bicycle Repair Man! That’s what the sign outside the corner shop in the Kirchstrasse in Gonsenheim says. Inside, you’ll find Fred Willem who…
> If you drive through the Mainzer Strasse, the secondary main drag (the Breite Strasse is the monguntian equivalent of the Champs Elysee..) in Gonsenheim, you’ll see wall to wall…
> At some stage, the littlies at the St Stephan Catholic kindergarten in Gonso were provided with buckets of paint and brushes and instructed to a) not make a mess…
> Guest photographer: Andreas Los This is the Mainz Sand Dunes (Großer Sand) Nature Park, 70ha in area and one of the most significant in Europe. It was formed during…
> ©Andreas Los The view from the 23nd floor (24th, if you’re American…) from the Vertical Village looking out over Gonsenheim. Surprised no-one’s base-jumped it yet…
> Europe’s different to a lot of other places. Folk tend to stay put, rather than pack everything up and relocate to greener pastures at the drop of a hat.…
> Not that I understand much about this stuff, of course, but it is That Time Of Year again, when the local newspaper reports on Karneval to the virtual exclusion…
> ..this is how I would see things. With my fish I.
> Folks on occasion turn up at Ms jb’s office in the Vertical Village with gifts. Often it’s unadulterated bribery (“Can I have an apartment please?”. “Can you open my…
> The “Economist” said last week that ““DON’T WALK” signals hypnotise German pedestrians even when no car is in sight.” Don’t believe a word of it. Around here, everyone subscribes…
> The delightfully leafy suburb of Gonsenheim at stupid o’clock in the morning. (If I’d tried this stunt yesterday, Helen would have had to jump into the fray as your…
>People get carried away by this Euro 2008 business. (Some are blissfully unaware of its existence, but that’s another story…) Overnight, park benches (these are at the Vertical Village) appear…
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