> ..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.…
> 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…
>Hans-Joachim Ströher runs the local Euromaster franchise – tires, wheel alignment, tech inspections, simple maintenance – in Hechtsheim. What a cool guy. Natural aura of authority, calm, competent, personable. If…