> How bloody dull can you get? “Die Römersteine”. These are the remnants of one of the most significant Roman structures north of the Alps, for goodness sake! An aquaduct…
>The remains of the Roman aqueduct cut through Mainz-Bretzenheim. From everything I’ve read, the aqueduct would have been an imposing sight, reaching a height of approximately 25m in order to…
>So you think you’re all modern and 21st Century with your underfloor or ducted heating… Yeah right. The Romans beat you to it by about 2 millennia, mate. This is…
>You have no idea how long I’ve waited to drop that little nugget of Latin into conversation. It translates to “with oars and sails” (and incidentally was my high school’s…
>Dig around here at your peril. These days, anyway. At one stage, you could get away with cultural murder. In 1884, for example. Laying a new track for a railway…
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