Just look at this subversive mob of reprobates, gathered around a den of iniquity (aka a Trinkhalle, this one in the Lessingstrasse in Mainz) and planning whoknowswhat.. Trinkhalle. In the…
Let this be a warning to you if you’re considering installing underfloor heating. St Johannis is the 2nd oldest cathedral in Germany, having been consecrated in 910, but likely having…
Over in the courtyard of the State Museum, they’ve got a stockpile of ready-made construction stoppers. I frequently warned that digging a hole in Mainz will hit mostly something of…
Scratching my head about this one…. 3 apartments above each other in a block at the bottom of the Gaugass. AFD is pretty obvious – Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for…
..but now and zens OK…. Zen Sushi, Leichhof
Used to be a parking bay, Covid came along and stopped inside dining, Stadt Mainz said (surprisingly, they’re normally pretty stick-in-the-mud-ish..) “Grab a spot outside your restaurant and it’s all…
Germans have a humour bypass So goes received wisdom. This excellent outfit tucked away in the depths of Kirchgarten is proof that a) received wisdom is sometimes wrong and b)…
… (rhymes with) Godot. (Seen in the Gausgass) Not much chance of that this year. Last time was 2010 and the neighbours’ kids got fed up of waiting. Soap machine.…
From the Book of John. 4:16 And Jesus did say to the throngs “Get thee to the artist in the Via Augustinus in the city known as Moguntiacum who doth…
…by bars at the Augustinerkirche in the old town. I could understand it if they were to decree me (as a non-left footer) as persona non grata, but Ms jb’s…
There are good days. And then there are excellent days. Today started off as a good day. 10°C, not a breath of wind, patchy cloud, forecast of 17° in the…
Alfa Romeo Spider Duetto, somewhere between 1966 and 1969 i.e. the time I left school to the time I left New Zealand. And somewhere north of €40k I had a…
Jan rides to Mayence From Wiesbaden to make me Excellent coffee
When it’s 30°C in the shade (86°F in old money…) and your shop is right opposite the Rialto ice-cream bar in the Altstadt…
Let’s roll the clock back 10 years. There’s an article in Sensor magazine about a couple of young dudes opening a pop-up espresso bar at the corner of Gaustrasse and…
Or.. how Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstrasse in Mainz reached a global audience of over 50 million viewers.Via Chinese Global Television Network Six degrees of separation is the idea…
Used to be gas, now LEDs run on solar energy. Wait. That can’t be right…..
A forcibly teetotal cherubim (seraphim…?) on the Osteiner Hof.
Also in Mainz. Also in Rheinland-Pfalz. Also in Germany. Anyway, that’s what the award says that has pride of place on the wall at the Martinstube, slap bang in the…
Raise thine eyes to the heavens and look with wonder at St Stephanus…. Probably has to finish with “I beseech thee” Wouldn’t know…
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – dig at your peril in Mainz. You’re likely to stumble across a Roman boatyard with the remains of 17 canoes.…
Frankfurter Hof in the Altstadt on Tuesday night. You could have taken a feed from the sound desk and issued it untouched. That good.
…twice the light in half the time” Joe Walsh from “Falling Down” Only one end here. St. Stephans
Well, price and product don’t really apply, but promotion, and place? Brother, did this guy get THOSE two right…. The Schottenhof at the bifurcation (if you’re ascending) or the confluence…
If you look closely at the top of the column in St Stephan, you’ll identify a truncated whateverit’scalled. (It’s actually a remant of the groin vault that was integral to…
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…
…er…provincial state capital, with all of its 200,000 inhabitants. Looking over towards Kästrich from the Eisgrubweg, with the spire of St Stephan in its place of prominence
Some distinctively shady characters hang out in the Breidenbacher Strasse. Must be for the coffee
Mainz’s electrified tram network’s 111th anniversary celebrations coincided with the “Sommerfest in der Gaugass” (Subtitle: “Spass uff de Gass) on Saturday. Why 111? Well, it’s this fixation with the number…
The Dionysos restaurant in the Germanikusstrasse is generally accepted as being the best Greek restaurant in Mainz. Tucked in behind the Kästrich and off the tourist track, you have to…
Ultra-athletes would undoubtedly be salivating over wall were it not constructed of crumbly sandstone. Terrassenstrasse, part of the Mainzer Actien Brauerei complex
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