…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…
> Mainz Hauptbahnhof (They missed it…)
> Sounds like a lyric from “Highway 61 Revisited”. (Who said speed kills…?) Here be that bridge again with a severe paucity of cumulo-thingies, but a surfeit (that’s…
> ..my bus..Three Euros and twenty in my hand”HT Lou Reed and Gucki Bus stop at the top of the hill blinded bythe lightHT Bruce
> Mainz is well served by public transport. 3 tram routes (this is the #51 thrashing up the Gaustrasse towards Hechtheim), untold bus routes (including #99, the Disko-Express which transports…
> I used to have one of these. For a day. Guy I used to work with (he was in Los Angeles, I was in Frankfurt) told me that…
> The ferry operators plying the Rhine are nothing if not direct. Assertive, even. Turn off your engine! Pull on the handbrake! Switch off your lights! Stay with your car!…
> This is how the iPhone spat it out. Honest. Now, I have it on very good authority that these are some form of cumulus (cumuli?). Probably Cumulus humilis, but…
> Cyclically speaking, that is…
> …for nothing. Mainz has a mixture of bike lanes, pedestrian precincts where you ride at full whack, pedestrian precincts where you can ride at walking pace and pedestrian precincts…
> My life seems to have been littered with hamburger joints, motorway cafs and greasy spoon eateries. When you work shifts at airports, you take whatever food’s on offer. At…
> ..at the end of the proverbial. Either that or it’s the Second Coming at the top of the exit ramp from the Theatre underground carpark. If it is the…
> The Simson Schwalbe (“Swallow”) The company started off in the century-before-last as a weapons manufacturer which then made cars which was then was then seized from its Jewish…
> They don’t look very geriatric to me (although I’m told that some dye their hair…) And the gradient on the Windmühlenstrasse is mild to the point of being almost…
> All the way along, in fact, thanks to the attractive neon tubes. The pedestrian tunnel under the tracks at the Römisches Theater train station. The assorted clutter and detritus…
> In the classic “I say tomato, you say tomato” tradition, we have 1. A subway. Or an underpass 2. A subway. Or a tube. Or a suburban metro railway.…
> It’s all very picturesque and stuff, but who has right of way? I think a bridge is definitely the right idea…..
> ..or up. And what do you do if you’re colour-blind, anyway? Escalator at Mainz Hauptbahnhof
> if you’re 25. And can add up without a calculator….. Signage at Mainz Main Station
> There are, in fact, 5 bridges connecting Mainz with (boo, hiss) Hessen. Which is what happens when you’re on one side of the river and they’re on the other.…
> Actually – DO fence me in. Please. Otherwise I’ll get nicked, just like jb’s bike. From right next to his front door. Security cable and all….
> I have a soft spot for Landrovers. I learnt to drive on one quite similar to this way back in the Dark Ages and Dad and Snow Prouse used…
>Mainz has a pretty good public transport system – mostly buses, but also 3 tram lines as well. Having lived in Melbourne for the last 6 or so years, I…
> Or “Light at the end of the tunnel” Whatever. Not as ambitious as Boston’s major construction effort, but pretty hefty for Mainz, nonetheless. The A61 is the motorway that…
> .. as the situationally unware are wont to say. Can’t get lost on the Rhine, though. Every 1000 metres, a whacking great sign like this tells you exactly where…
> Some of the trams around here are truly museum pieces. Technically (being in Germany) they’re obviously top notch, but their stilted officialese signage (“Seek a secure grip whilst standing”)…
> 21st century buses and medieval cart tracks don’t really go together. The bus from Lörzweiler to Hechtsheim is a case in point. It has to be this big because…
> 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…
>Getting around Mainz is dead easy. Walk (lots of pedestrian precincts and it’s not that big) Bike (remind me to tell you about the rules they have here sometime) Car…
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