>but it’s quite a thing over here at the moment. I’ve heard of this programme, but it’s not the sort of thing I watch. It’s called “Looking for Germany’s Superstar”…
>Google “Billy Crash” and you’ll get page after page of Billy Crash Craddock. Our Billy Crash is the nom-de-plume for Martin Kijaszek, a local hero who writes and sings rock…
>….of how things used to be Those are lyrics to a song I know and I can’t for the life of me think what it is. This really is pretty…
>Home away from home for the last couple of days. Duff quality, but I actually forgot to ask the ambulance crew to get the Nikon while they were strapping me…
>LadderCoefficient of friction = 03 metresGravity ParamedicsNeck braceStrapped to a stretcherSuspected spinal/neurological injuriesER at University Clinic in MainzCT scanX-rays 2 broken ribsConcussion Overnight imprisonment for observation3 roommates, all members of…
>May I introduce you to Simon (8) and Sophie (6) Weil, our neighbours and friends from up the road, They’re great kids. You’d like them. It was Simon’s First Communion…
>This was worth the wait. And it’s worth two pictures. Moan if you want to. I don’t care. The Bugner family in our village still grows asparagus the way it’s…
>Nanette Scriba is a true local heroine around here. She was born here, her Dad was organist at the Johanniskirche and she lives bang in the middle of the Old…
>Mention the Ritterstrasse to anyone in Mainz with a miniscule sense of aesthetics and you’ll generally be swamped by the effusiveness of their descriptive skills. And it really is something…
>This lady makes the most wonderfully delicate spring flower bunches on the Saturday market in Mainz. They look so light, you’d think they’d float on air.Lilac blossom, roses, vibrantly green…
> There are fairies at the bottom of our garden! It’s not so very, very far away; You pass the gardner’s shed and you just keep straight ahead. I do…
>Mum spent her first 30-odd years in north England, the next 40-some years in sub-tropical Auckland and then moved to Nelson in her 70s. Which has occasional frosts.“It’s great to…
>This is a really cool business concept. Instead of growing sugarbeets (which are losing their EU subsidies as we speak) or cereal crops, farmers around here have moved to growing…
>Actually, the Faces “Flying” would have been more appropriate. (And Rainer Fetting, the artist, would no doubt have approved. After all, he did title it “Der Flug” – “The Flight”)…
> Who’s there? Lilac. Lilac who?Lilac anything if someone asks your age….. The market in Mainz this morning was full with a mixture of what should be seasonal produce at…
>“Rape, murder” Merry Clayton. 2:42 into the Stones’ “Gimme shelter“ Then she rips in with “It’s just a shot away, it’s just a shot away” And Charlie Watts thwacks a…
>Some lyrically describe the Augustinerstrasse as Mainz’s 5th Avenue or Champs Elysee. Well, yes…. It’s an excellent place, but it’s somewhat short on width to compare favourably with those two.…
>It’s too dangerous up there – I’m staying down here where it’s safe…
>I’m hijacking this post for a good cause. I hope for your understanding. (This is the 50th Parallel, by the way. Runs bang through the Gutenberg Square in front of…
>Be careful what you photograph around here. This looks like an innocent kitchen studio, but – if the truth be known – it’s really a secret military installation. Why else…
>Mainz has a real train station. Trains come in at one end and go out the other. Not like Frankfurt or Wiesbaden. There, trains come in, stop and somehow get…
>I like the easter egg/hot cross bit of the occasion, but it’s the hokey decorations – here in the Kaufhof window display – that get me. This bloke looks positively…
>Given Mainz’s moderately violent history – Romans in punch-ups with the Germanic tribes, French and Prussians at each others throats for years, the Brits pulverising large bits of the city…
>This is “Elsa” – the high rise apartment complex in the Elsa-Brändström-Strasse in Mainz-Gonsenheim. 3 blocks, 23 stories, 610 apartments, around 1500 inhabitants. Featured in a popular docu-soap a couple…
>The Augustinerstrasse IS the Old Town for many people. It used to be the commercial heart of the city up until the 17th century It runs from the Leichhof (originally…
>……the street signs in Mainz really are red and blue. Nothing to do with a Napoleonic decree, though. (Well, it was April Fools Day yesterday…) And the urban legend that…
>The French influence in Germany dates back to the occupation of the city by the French Revolutionary army in 1792.And in 1793, the Jacobins of Mainz – together with democrats…
>I know that this is way off track and encroaching unashamedly on Lachezar‘s territory, but there’s a restaurant/sports bar type place called MKOP in Albany, north of Auckland.Stands for My…
>Normally on the Rhine, you’d see wall-to-wall barges and lighters at this point. (This is from the North railway bridge, linking Mainz with those rascals across the river.) But it’s…
>This is the Theodor Heuss bridge, named after the first President – from 1949 to 1959 of the Federal Republic of Germany. And that’s Wiesbaden over there. Wiesbaden’s the capital…
>That’s what the blackboard says. And someone’s written underneath “That’s a real shame” This used to be a Home Depot-type superstore on a greenfield site. Except that there were 2…
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