> As you can tell, the combination of jet lag (just get over it and it’s time to go home…), the constant search for affordable WiFi (Nelson airport this morning…
Ticking over until summer drags in the tourists… – Posted using BlogPress
> I’m sure I’ve posted the 50th-Parallel-running-through-Mainz on numerous occasions, but in honour of World Alzheimers Day, I figured that no-one would notice…– Posted using BlogPress
> Odile Landragin‘s garden shed. Professional simplicity.
>But who stole the loaves of bread? Nordsee, a national chain of fishmongers/fish restaurant/pescine fast food outfit, hovering above St Quintins. – Posted using BlogPress
> Top: iPhone 3GSBottom: Panasonic FX60 Yep, there is a difference. But not much… (This is my first non-Nikon camera since 1978. It feels a bit strange…)
> Heidi and Thomas Rabold are apiarists. (He’s an engineer in real life, buzzing around in his spare time, shifting hives around to where they’re needed. Finthen for apricots this…
So, here we are then. Nelson dwarfed by the engine nacelle of the Q300 (that’s Meg & Ben down there somewhere… ) and the first compression of the oleo leg…
> What with all this snow (Frankfurt airport closed down completely yesterday and THAT doesn’t happen very often), I need something to keep me going until Spring. Especially seeing…
> Back in the days when the sun used to shine……
> Being a cheap bugger, I don’t like paying for parking. I KNOW it’s cheap (US$2 an hour) compared with Manhattan, but it does tend to reduce the enjoyment level…
>Bad-Kreuznach – about 30 minutes from Mainz and where I’ve been incarcerated for the past 3 weeks – has some fascinating sons and daughters. Eberhard Anheuser, who went on to…
> …in the year of our Lord MMVIII that Moguntium V was sorely rebuffed as they strove to capture the pinnacle of the Divisionum Secundus and were again cast down…
>In the tradition of the classic jailbreak, Helen baked me a cake with a file in it, facilitating my escape from the asylum. Thought the least I could do was…
> Bad Kreuznach is a spa town about a 30 minute drive from Mainz. ‘Bad’ – ‘Bath’ in German is a dead giveaway and it’s the sort of place where…
> Helen’s zipped off the Strasbourg for the weekend (more power to her elbow, too) and I’m stranded here out in the woops, trying to get my bionic leg to…
>Modern art, or impending disaster….discuss. It is inevitable that when I’m trying to photograph anything, the cat will find the whole process so interesting that he feels he has to…
>…look left again. Good thing I did. These boys hit 80kmh according to tags on the series I took and the extrapolation from the distance covered between frames. Through a…
>Quite tasteful, in fact…
>I do like the Christmas season. (And the Hannukah season. And the Kwanzaa season. Not wanting to marginalise anyone…) The stench delicate fragrance of a vile subtle mix of cinnamon…
>…as Ry Cooder would say. The big energy conglomerates have got the market nicely stitched up. Split the market geographically into 3 regions and don’t compete with the local squire,…
>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…
>€38,000,000$56,000,000£27,000,000¥6,156,000,000Zimbabwe $34,124,000,000 That’s this week’s lottery jackpot. Paid as a lump sum. Tax free. Severe silliness
>Originally: The stables of the neighbouring Prince Elector’s palace, crowned with a massive gold-plated copper stallion* which led to its being called “The Golden Horse Barracks” Then: Destroyed in world…
>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,…
>Living in the country, surrounded by fields and vineyards, we’ve got a fairly good variety of wildlife. A family of long-eared owls (Asio otus) colonised the birch tree in the…
>You know it’s getting close to autumn when you see colours like these…
>Mr Bumble Bee obviously doesn’t refer to Wikipedia. Otherwise he’d know to keep well away from Vitex (Vitex agnus-castus). Aka Chaste Tree, Chasteberry, or Monk’s Pepper, the latter being the…
>Talking of favourites… Sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus) would be the favourite flower. Odile Landragin had some really healthy seedlings this year and they’re now growing up a tipi-type support, flowering…
>Can’t miss it. This sign’s been outside the Italian ice cream parlour for as long as I can remember. I’ll have yogurt, apricot and pistachio. As always.
>If you want to buy your monthly tram ticket at the newspaper kiosk in Mainz-Gonsenheim this morning, you’re out of luck. Yesterday was the last day in 32 years that…
