The Nasengässchen (Nose Alley) links Leichhof (the site of the original church cemetery, Leiche meaning corpse) and Grebenstrasse (possibly originating from Graben, a ditch) in the Altstadt. There are heaps…
Café rebranding in the Augustinerstrasse. Used to be Café Lavazza. Naff espresso, but 2 nice Golden Retrievers and the location’s great. It’s now Caffè Stivale – still a great location,…
Kaffeekommune II. So popular that all the tables were taken. Perch on a wall in the sunshine on the other side of the road.
Show me another kiddies’ playground that backs onto a medieval city wall and I’ll send you a signed 10c coin. Only in Mainz…
…… Paul and Christina frantically refer to “Espresso Making 101”. “It says here “Grind the coffee beans”. Do you remember how we used to do that? Sorry jb – this…
This is Tony, newest addition to Paul Bonna’s galaxy of stars at kaffeekommune 2 Born in Mönchengladbach to British parents (Dad was in the BAOR – British Army of the…
Didn’t know that I’d missed the Chagall windows in the Stephanskirche that much. (That, and making Kate‘s day…)
The tour guide’s spiel went like this: “OK, this is the meeting point” (Neglecting to mention that the “meeting point” aka the Market Well is one of the oldest architectural…
Rotes Tor, Rheinpromenade, Mainz
Prince Electors’ palace
Prince Electors’ palance, Mainz
If you balance your espresso cup on your knee and lean back a bit, this is what you’ll see from Paul Bonna’s kaffee kommune zwei in the Breidenbachstrasse.
n in a series of n Corner Martinstrasse/Kästrich
The earth’s curvature is quite pronounced around these parts. In fact, you’ll be lucky to see the other side of the road in places…
The Schillerplatz’s mass-planting of Impatiens hawkeri aka New Guinea Impatiens – basically a Busy Lizzie with a college education
…withe Canaletto, then I’d say that was very perspective..er.. perceptive of you.. Emmerich-Josef-Strasse from ground level
That’s shadow castle to you. Taken in Acker, a narrow dead-end street that leads to the Breitenbachstrasse (and Kaffee Kommune II) and keeps me away from the murderous Gaustrasse traffic
…let there be skylights This is what goes for aircon in these parts….
The first St Stephan zu Mainz was built in 991 as a side project to the building of the cathedral. (Willigis, the first bishop of Mainz, had a hand in…
A motley collection of geriatrics kicking up a fuss in front of the cathedral this morning and demanding an uninterrupted view of cathedral in Worms. Eh? Worms is 48km from…
St Stephan
….at H&L This is a lampshade in a parallel universe…..
“Public viewing” is one of those Denglisch words that baffle native English speakers. (We think it means the laying out a corpse for mourners to traipse past…) Along with (the…
Rock on over to the Picolla Salumeria to buy some Finocchiona (that’s fennel salami to you… €2.09/100gm) and you get a free Italian lesson to go…
Gallusgasse/Weintorstrasse Another in a series of n
“I ordered it 3 years ago and I’ve been waiting all this time for your delivery driver…”
….but when I asked the Holzturm for directions to the Rhine, they just said…….
Normally you have no idea what lies behind the facades of the uninterrupted rows of buildings as you walk through the back streets of Mainz. But sometimes – just sometimes…
New place just down the road from the remnants of the city wall (which would still have been standing, had not the populace murdered Archbishop Arnold von Selenhofen in 1160…
An embrasure (aka loophole, slit, arrowslit, balistraria, barbican, crenel) in the remants of the city wall on the Rheinstrasse.
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