>This is just the nicest place. “Shakespeare und So” (“Shakespeare and the like”) in the Gaustrasse, which links the city centre with St Stephans. You won’t find those cheap glossy…
> (book)worm turns… I’m a sucker for bookshops. I’ll look at a book I’ve never heard of about a subject of which I have zero knowledge (lots of those…) and…
> …there’s a Miguel. Both Will Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes died on 23 April. It all gets a bit confusing, because one was Gregorian and the other Julian (calendar-wise)…
> Bookshops aren’t about books. They’re about people. Borders isn’t a real bookshop as far as I’m concerned. It’s just the “mortar” bit in the “Clicks and Mortar” business model.…
> …are made for reading… Nida Kilian – being somewhat vertically challenged – was standing on a chair, sorting some books on one of the top shelves in “Shakespeare &…
>Rue – Ruta graveolens – is one of those herbs that you’ll rarely find a use for. It featured prominently in Middle Eastern and Roman cuisine in ancient times, but…
The Gaustrasse – the main route from town to the top of town – is a bit of a mess at the moment. The tram lines are in the process…
The Osteiner Hof at the head of the Schillerplatz has a bit of history. Even for Mainz The Osteiner Hof (“Court of Ostein”) is one of several Baroque-era palatial mansions…
They could have organised the meteorological side of things a bit better and Ms jb could have not been suffering from TFA (Totally F@#&ed Ankle) Syndrome, but apart from that,…
Just what the doctor ordered – a pop-up bar selling decent beer. Leonidas Lazaridis und Philip Vogel, design students at the University for Applied Sciences in Mainz came up with…
This morning, I did my Good Samurai act in saving Cynthia, Judy and Carol (all originally from New Jersey, but now spread between there, Baltimore and Texas) from a fate…
Markus Wehrle (pictured) and Kai Tietze (with a little help from their friends) have turned a direly neglected and unbelievably scruffy building in the Gaustrasse into “Lönneberga“, a “café for…
…there’s a way. Reusable shopping bags from the ever-excellent Shakespeare & So in the Gaustrasse. True story: Ms jb’s English is so excellent, because her mother (would have been her…
At the very excellent Shakespeare & So in the Gaustrasse
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