Mainz, Germany

I had enough hours layover in Germany to leave the airport. It was warm and sunny and walking around town was much more interesting than the same number of hours walking inside the airport would have been. On the way back I talked with the taxi driver about energy and the steel industry and hydrogen and Namibia and Morocco. 

This was such a cool looking coffee cart. She had an electrical cord running off. 

I don’t know what the castle was giving the bees in the extra but they loved it. 

Amazing how interesting things are just because you haven’t seen them before.

I saw a red squirrel! 

“ Russia was reported to be moving its aircraft back from airfields near the Ukrainian border while glide bomb attacks inside Ukraine were reported to have decreased. Evidence that Moscow was scrambling elite units from Ukraine to defend home turf also mounted during the week.


An unnamed White House official told the Politico news website that “90 percent of the planes that launch glide bombs” against Ukrainian front-line positions had been moved back inside Russia.”
Hope so. 
The US is going to give Ukraine $800 million to repair the electricity sector.