Let this be a warning to you if you’re considering installing underfloor heating. St Johannis is the 2nd oldest cathedral in Germany, having been consecrated in 910, but likely having…
…the Amiche. Which used to be a 30km/15 stop rural railway line linking Alzey and Bodenheim from the late 19th century until the mid-1980s. Tracks pulled and part of the…
This is the story of 4 significant sculptures by a significant living artist flanking the entrance to the world’s leading printing museum. The Gutenberg Museum in Mainz, Germany. It’s…
Protestants – non-Catholics in general, actually – had a pretty hard time in Mainz. Napoleon Bonaparte was the first to lift them from their status (shared with Jews) as “tolerated…
..of Mary Whitehouse, what filthy mind designed that lighthouse” Mary Whitehouse was a firebrand protectress of public morals in Britain in the 1960s and 70s – Sisyphus springs to mind……
..to go to McDonalds or its ilk, but seeing what they’re doing in Mainz gets them a gold star. For sure. See the place at the back, nestled among the…
I’m usually on the other side, but I rocked down to the Markt der schönen Dinge in Mainz yesterday to say Hi to Karin Schweickhard and Michael Limbeck. Stall is…
Jochen Rindt, the Mainz-born racing driver who drove under an Austrian racing licence, would have been 70 yesterday. The city’s finally woken up to the fact that they should do…
The weather’s been picking up around here and we’ve been seeing a lot of these cumulus numbers cloud formations recently. Here’s one from the 5th floor of the St Vincenz…
>Well, there are bridges and bridges… Went to see local blues guitar hero Timo Gross the other night and we got chatting and I took some photographs – some grainy…
>Better late than never… Tricky getting an image of Chagall’s windows in St Stephan’s. Try to take a picture from inside the church and they’ll burn you at the stake,…
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