When you’re 1000 or so years old, things can start getting a bit shonky. Not talking of personal experience, of course, but Mainz cathedral is a bit like the Golden…
As were my legs 2/3 the way up the steps from Walpodenstrasse to Terrassenstrasse. AND carrying the bike. Bloody hell, it’s a climb. And it’s not as if we’re getting…
When I was in London last week for a school reunion of the Westlakers diaspora*, Paul from kaffeekommune zwei recommended that I rock on over to Talkhouse Coffee in Portobello…
The Nagelsäule, Dom and various green bits. Trees, I think.
This figure is a constant in Mainz, appearing in expected and unexpected locations. This flanking the steps leading up from Walpodenstrasse to the Terrassenstrasse She’s also been featured frequently at…
Looking at the goldsmith across the road from Kaffeekommunezwei, I was quietly wishing that my Italian was a bit better. Like” what’s a “Heib”? “Che cosa è una Heib?” I thought.…
The Markthäuser on the Cathedral square. You just can’t avoid them. They either house the best record store in Mainz (used to any way) or they’re being knocked down and…
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…
Spring fever getting you down? Can’t be feeling as faded as these 2, I’m sure. Mind you, you’re not a couple of hundred years old….. Sandstone plaque at St Stephans.
“Lautstark” in the Augustinerstrasse in the Altstadt is pretty much the last of a dying breed of specialist record stores. Rockpile‘s gone and if I’m honest, Lautstark isn’t quite in…
The clue to yesterday’s puzzle. Needless to say, I’m still none the wiser….
The Eisgrubschule celebrates its new sports facility in style. Here’s the history: https://mainzdailyphoto.com/2007/10/16/die-eisgrub-244/
Madame Pompom is a new shop in the Johannisstrasse run by Anna-Claire Müller, the daughter of the folks who own Moguntia Kaffeerösterei. Can’t seriously imagine becoming a regular … Madame…
The only buds I’ve seen recently are on this carved door in the Augustinerstrasse….
I can’t help it, but when I saw this sign, I was immediately transported back to to 1972 and Chuck Berry’s ” sophomoric, double-entendre-laden ode to ….ahem…” as one critic…
in the big city. Kapuzinerstrasse.
Rocked on down to Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune Zwei (which opened during my sabbatical) in the Gaustrasse today. Just a STUNNING double espresso – so much intense flavour and not a…
St Stephan, patron saint of meteorologists deacons, headaches, horses, coffin makers, and masons, checks out the weather above the portal of the rectory of the eponymous church. Which reminds me…
Either that or pigeons are kamikazi-ing themselves against this building in the Augustinerstrasse Which would suit me fine, if I’m honest
…around the edges. Old stuff in the Altstadt
My LA journalist friend asked me whether Mainz’s streets would have been cobbled in the 1930s. The 1930s?! How about….last week?
..if I liked the style, I wouldn’t like the colour….
More to the point, where’s the bloody lobster? “Dicke Lilli, gutes Kind” is a cool new cafe in the Gaustrasse in Mainz. “So where’s Fat Lilli” I asked “She must…
Black and White Friday, actually. Don’t really understand the hooha, to be honest. You mean that people REALLY have to spend on Friday what they couldn’t spend on Thursday because…
New café in the Gaustrasse. Dicke Lilli, gutes Kind. Excellent espresso, naff cherry tart, great decoration. Not sure if it was Women’s Day (they have those at the local swimming…
The oldest (and finest) Renaissance fountain in Germany. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marktbrunnen_%28Mainz%29
…in the Gaustrasse
On more levels than one….
The only explanation that I have for a Mainz this deserted at 8:40 am on a Saturday morning is that we woke everyone up as we drifted in from Boston…
The “Drei-Mädchen” fountain on the Ballplatz, suffering from severe dehydration. The reason: No money. As usual. Mainz has enormous debts – close to €1bn – and it costs €220,000 annually…
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