>Tempted to crop this more and run a competition. It’s the patterned brickwork under the shore-side arch of the Theodore-Heuss bridge linking Mainz and Wiesbaden
>“Ah, I’m so glad that you are promoting women’s businesses and interests”, wrote Kate a while back when I blogged Gloria et Odile. She’ll be well pleased with this one,…
>I’m not sure what people think when they design information panels. Do they think that everyone’s 6’4″ (like me) At least they could provide a ladder. On second thoughts, that’s…
>This was easier than I thought. And it’s good discipline, too. Thanks to Meg and Ben for posting for me while I’ve been out of range. And thanks for everyone…
>Magnify this 20 times and you’ve got an idea of how many blossoms our white clematis has. It must like it here. It just gets the water that the heavens…
>During the gravitational incident a few weeks back, my field of view on the trip to the clinic was straight up through the glass vent in the roof of the…
>Cistus or Rock Rose Wikipedia says “They have showy 5-petaled flowers ranging from white to purple and dark pink, in a few species with a conspicuous dark red spot at…
>.. falling off a log. The Lerchenberg Woods
>Mainz cathedral and the epitome of evil. So you’d think if you heard the discussion about the proposed new runway at Frankfurt airport. There’s going to be a TENFOLD increase…
>In 1978, our section had a brand-new house and about an inch of topsoil on it. Northing else. No plants. No birds. Nothing. So we started planting. One of them…
>This is a Wasserhäusche. The diminutive form of “Water House”, “water” being the euphemism for alcoholic beverages Or a Trinkhalle. “Drinking hall” Even the euphemistic nomenclature sounds a bit dire.…
>Looking at the Second Division. Bugger.
Here’s Lloyd Harwood‘s quite wonderful “The Magi wives go shopping” Bought it last December at Red Gallery in Nelson, the only place in the world that sells Meg’s scarves. Never…
>Or Heilige Drei Könige, as it’s known over here. There’s quite a cool tradition associated with this. The “Sternsinger” – Star Singers, after the star that the Magi followed –…
>If it wasn’t so pretty, it’d be a weed around our place…
>This sounds like an escapee from over there. It supposedly tells you all you need to know about the exact location of gas/water/power lines in the immediate vicinity. Something like…
>Before I forget – Meg and Ben in Nelson are running this place for a few days. Many thanks. But I’m a bit worried about what’s going to happen over…
>A pretty typical sight on the Rhine. You’ve got space on the quarterdeck – take the car along, just in case you need it…
>Bought one of these GPS navigation thingies the other day Primarily in the interests of marital harmony… Words have been exchanged in the past.Road maps have exited the car in…
>..we’re just a couple of altar stones dedicated to Mithras, the invincible sun god. Secundinius Amantius, logistics officer of the XXII Legion, dedicated us in around the second century AD.…
>Not long now….
>Not happy days around here. Mainz 05 has to win their last two games (which might actually include the requirement to score goals, something for they haven’t shown much aptitude…
>Gloria Hasse (left) runs an excellent ceramics gallery from her home near Darmstadt, which is waaay out of my authorised reporting zone, so I shouldn’t really even be mentioning it.…
>This says “You can do handstands for all I care – no card, no ciggies” I gave up smoking 30-odd years ago, so I’m not really up to speed on…
>Bit (crikey – if THAT’s not an understatement…) of controversy over here regarding the Bush administration’s plans for a missile defence system with tracking radar and interceptors based in Eastern…
>They call it the innovative stylish car from Daimler-Chrysler. It’s pretty much the Edsel of the 90s and cost the CEO (along with a couple of other disasters) his job.…
>Germany’s a pretty organised place. More rules and regulations than you can shake a stick at. (At which you can shake a stick…? Kate?) And many of which you can…
>offeWe have 3 tree peonies in the garden – a double purple, this single yellow and one of unknown form and colour. Someone pruned it back a few years ago…
>Depending on where you’re from, it’s Green herb sauceSauce verteSalsa verde Around here, its dialectic pronunciation is Grie Soß. Claimed by those folks over in Frankfurt, actually, but we’ll ignore…
> Welcome to Anywhereville. With 2 exceptions, these pictures are within a 5 minute walk of each other. And 4 are right next to each other. I kid you not.There’s…
>This is Lydia Bugner, our asparagus lady, in her clinically clean asparagus garage. They pretty much only work to order, so when they get back home shortly after stupid o’clock,…
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