>Big event at the moment is the European Football Championships (rest of the world read: soccer) being jointly hosted by Switzerland and Austria. They don’t have a chance of winning,…
>7 year old Sophie from up the road turned up on one of her frequent visits the other week to proudly inform us that she’d won the Reading Contest for…
>Volker Eckert’s vineyard definitely isn’t on a corner. In fact, it’s on the Hauptstrasse, the main road that runs through the old part of Klein-Winternheim. But semantically, it couldn’t fit…
>Shortly after I moved to Germany way back in mumble mumble, I showed a girl I went to school with a map of where I was living. “What’s all the…
>Not really. Before we all get frantic and de-mothball the lawnmowers, this is winter wheat. Sow it in autumn, it germinates before winter sets in and then takes a low…
>It’s time to get out into the vineyards and finish off the pruning. Do it to early and you risk frost damage. Leave it too late and you risk bleeding…
>Not quite fast enough, I fear. And I always thought a rabbit’s foot was a good luck charm. Maybe it doesn’t apply if you’re a rabbit….. The 1939 original from…
>Depending on who you listen to.. …the new wind turbines will be the tallest man-made structure ever conceived, they’ll cast their evil shadows for kilometres across the pristine countryside and…
>“No-one to be seen and certainly nothing growing” Hint: Depends on the emphasis Tags: Mainz, Region, Klein-Winternheim, Views
>It’s getting darker by the day in the mornings, but when we look out onto the deck, it’s almost as if someone’s splashed day-glo ™ paint on this maple Tags:…
>Not very often, though. This chappy’s been on our roof since my 50th birthday – 9 or so years now. Wasn’t an easy task to get it, says She, and…
>“Aren’t we lucky people!” my mate John Whatley would say. We certainly are, having the Cascones just up the road. Michael (in the background) is the head honcho – the…
>Yeah, right…. Given the price of land around here, the social engineering that takes place in new sub-divisions (if you don’t live in the village, are young and have a…
>Training session on the Klein-Winternheim football field the other night. No ref, only one goalie and 7 vs 8. But some rather smooth stuff being displayed – reverse passes, slick…
>A single-track railway line links Mainz and Alzey, stopping in Gonsenheim, Marienborn, Klein-Winternheim, Nieder-Olm and a couple of other villages on the way. It’s an adequate enough service – once…
>The road from Ober-Olm to Klein-Winternheim is a real race-track. There’s a 50km/h limit, then it’s down to 30 limit next to the station, a chicane (which boy-racers all over…
>Night sky the other evening. Lousy resolution (Treo 650 smartphone – what can one reasonably expect)
>Here are two, anyway. Wind and sun. Shame that the aircraft back there is burning carbon-credits as if they’re going out of style…
>The modern equivalent of cattle rustlers around here are the folk who sneak out under cover of darkness (and sometimes not even that) and plunder orchards. Cherries, plums, apples, apricots,…
>The countryside around here gives you an idea of the challenges involved in achieving economies of scales in agriculture around here. Certainly looks picturesque, but no sooner have you turned…
> Yummy. Schusters, our Kleiin-Winternheim farmers, have the new season’s beans on the market in Mainz. Nothing better than to boil them until they’re still al dente together with a…
>Our village has been solidly Roman Catholic for ever, pretty much. The earliest reference in church records in Mainz date back to 1100 and the Franciscan nunnery relocated to Mainz-Weisenau…
>This is the Eckert family’s vineyard in the village. Definitely newcomers. A mere 9 generations of vintners. Only been here since 1696. The Franciscan nunnery had been gone 150 years…
>This is St. Andreas – St Andrew – seated in front of the eponymous church in our village and looking across over the Hauptstrasse (Main Street – yes, we have…
>No late frosts. Warm weather and lots of bees at blossom-time. No hail storms. (Yet…) Warm weather predicted for next week. If this keeps up, we could be in the…
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