The Mainz Walking Tour continues! Walking around the corner we discovered St Christoph with its touching memorial reflecting on the victims of WWII and the destruction of Mainz. “To the dead in remembrance, to the living a reminder” Our path eventually brought us to Schillerplatz.  I’ll admit I have wandered across here a time or two before but now, with Kevin the Historian to guide us, I saw it through new eyes! Continue with the Mainz Walking Tour-Part Four. Walking in Mainz Part One-St Augastine Church Part Two-Mainzer Dom and Gutenberg Museum Part Three-(This page) St Christoph’s memorial Part Four-St Stephan and Marc Chagall’s stain glass windows Part Five-Zitadelle and Stadthistorisches Museum Mainz Part Six-Romisches Theater and Roman…

The Mainz Walking Tour continues! With our awesome historian leading the way and pointing out neat finds in the nooks and crannies of Mainz, I found several places I wanted to come back and explore. Not too far from the Mainzer Dom we viewed where Gutenberg lived and died, the first printing press, and the Gutenberg Museum.  No pictures were allowed inside.  So instead, you get a picture of this statue. Continue with the Mainz Walking Tour-Part Three. Walking in Mainz Part One-St Augastine Church Part Two-(This page) Mainzer Dom and Gutenberg Museum Part Three-St Christoph’s memorial Part Four-St Stephan and Marc Chagall’s stain glass windows Part Five-Zitadelle and Stadthistorisches Museum Mainz Part Six-Romisches Theater and…

I recently decided to take advantage of the USO Wiesbaden’s walking tour in Mainz. While the main idea was to help orientate newcomers to the city, I had an ulterior motive in going. I wanted to spend some one-on-one time with my oldest son and I wanted to test out a newly acquired refurbished Panasonic DMC-G5 from kameraclub.de to see if it would work for me as a lightweight travel camera. I switched between a couple of settings in an attempt to get to know my camera a little better.  Overall I loved the details the camera was able to pic up even though I wasn’t shooting in RAW.  The only corrections…

I finally figured out that when the weather has chilled with a wetness that makes us shiver but not quite cold enough for snow, then we can know for a certainty that winter has to come to Germany. Looking for a little winter cheer, the girls and I decided to join our local homeschool friends for a trip to Eiswelt in Mainz. The website and booklet, when translated, tells us that the ice sculpture exhibit is the work of nineteen international artists.  Several of which are world champions.  In four months they worked in cold conditions and diligently crafted from 500 ice blocks of different sizes, 200 tons of snow and 200 tons of ice,…