Traveling down from the citadel we rounded the corner to view the Romisches Theater ruins. Then we made our way to the Museum for antike Schiffahrt or the Roman Antique Ships Museum. Notes about the camera:  I found myself loving how the camera handled the trip!  I still have a few things I need to figure out but […]

The Mainz Walking Tour continues! Next it’s up to the Zitadelle… and the Stadthistorisches Museum Mainz. Continue with the Mainz Walking Tour-Part Six. Walking in Mainz Part One-St Augastine Church Part Two-Mainzer Dom and Gutenberg Museum Part Three-St Christoph’s memorial Part Four-St Stephan and Marc Chagall’s stain glass windows Part Five-(this page) Zitadelle and Stadthistorisches Museum Mainz Part […]

The Mainz Walking Tour continues! I’m not very big on churches. Usually if you have seen one, you’ve seen them all.  As you can see Mainz is a bit of a surprise in that regard.  St Stephan was the next church we went to.  Here we found the theme of Marc Chagall‘s desire for oneness expressed through the […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]