Summer in the city back of my neck gettin’ dirty and gritty. Thus spake the Lovin’ Spoonful in 1966. Around here, it’s a series of open air concerts featuring some…
> Those muscular types who think these newfangled climbing walls are a recent invention are way off the mark. They’ve been around for centuries. All this business with stringing yourself…
>The Eisgrube (Eis = Ice: Grube= Pit) in Mainz fulfilled the same function as an icehouse (Check out Minette Walters’ thriller by the same name – it’s excellent). It was…
> It’s not a big surprise that Mainz shows distinct signs of having been fortified. Centuries (Centuries? Millennia…!) of Romans, Huns, Swedes, French, Austrians and sundry ratbags thrashing up and…