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…
Kuehn Kunz Rosen is one of 3 local micro-breweries in Mainz worthy of the name, the other two being Eulchen and Schwarze Rose (which has definitely become my favourite). There…
A bit NQM, but anyway… Zipped down to a plant market in Maikammer, around 90km south to help my mate Frank the Potter to pack up his kit and visited…
kavé studio. | café & workshops | MainzSip⠀⠀create⠀⠀connectspecialty coffee & workshopsMainz | coming soon.26.04. Sip & Chat Door03.05. Opening Which was the day before yesterday and when we fronted up…
Got dragged along to a garden place in Bretzenheim yesterday which tends to happen when major purchases loom and someone needs to pay for it. Eyewatering prices but the budgies…
Or. Life’s a beech Bloke down in Dexheim doing some serious winter prepping. Or maybe he sells the stuff…
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)…
Seriously. GEMA (Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte/Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights) represents the rights of performers, collecting royalties for both live and – er –…
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…
Scheck-In (no, don’t ask me…) is a local supermarket belong to the Edeka chain, one of the 2 legacy supermarket groups fighting for their lives against the discounter (Aldi, Lidl…
Says Paul Bonna, barista extraordinaire, owner and proprietor of the exquisite Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstarsse and friend (despite my having a good decade on his Mum) for close on a…
“OF COURSE it’s going back…!” Some people are just a bit too choosy. Gridlock at the post office in Klaa-Winnerum
No “pre-loved rolls” from the day before. No “vintage loaves” at half price. They’ll be up at 3am, firing up the ovens and driving the neighbours crazy with the smell…
I do love Paul Bonna’s kaffeekommune, but it’s definitely solaristically challenged. Solution: Grab a chair, move to the sunny side of the street. Tony’ll take his life in his hands…
Simone Bott co-runs the eponymous family tiling business in Weisenau. It’s the go-to place if you want quality and expert advice. In the process of renovating one of the bathrooms…
..er…crane my neck to see the top of the boom. Heavy-lifting in Klaawinnerum
Not to be outdone by the recent excavations at the English Stonehenge, our local builders (Karl-Heinz and Willibert Druid) quickly got into the act and slung up some pillars to…
Or- “Get well soon” as they say around these parts. Which is what you’ll hear when you visit Monika Schmitt’s Andreas Apotheke (Andreas Pharmacy, named after St Andrew, the patron…
In my mind, Birkenstocks are indelibly associated with müsli eaters, political protests and unshaven armpits. I evidently haven’t moved with the times, because Ms jb informs me that they’re now…
I first met Phillip (r) and Leon (l) at their Eulchen pop-up store in the Gaustrasse in November 2013, they’ve gone on to taking over an unused kiosk in the…
.. these window cleaners at the MED-Centre in the Wallstrasse must be on the verge if canonisation
Just BEING in a place like this gives me the heebie-jeebies. I’m convinced they’re all alien shift-shapers…
This’ll get the Parental filters going….. I’ve been friends with Kalle Sröckle for ages and a day, Ms jb closer to his wife for almost as long since she offered…
Tools of the trade for a slate maker
Popped in to see favourite website clients (and friends) Maria and Ute in Höhr-Grenzhausen on Monday (up there to talk to a new client) and they were over the moon.…
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…
Jürgen Winterberg knows about these things. He runs the meticulously researched bier-in-mainz.de website and has the history of the 78 breweries which have lived and died in and around Mainz.…
The perfumery in the Gutenberg Center more open than usual. Turns out that some villains backed up to the service entrance the other night, jemmied open the door and helped…
Yeah right….
The consequences of neglecting to stick a “No Junk Mail” sign on your mailbox
Er …”Eye, Captain” Don’t see many artificial eye artisans these days, but they still exist. In fact (and this really IS a true story…), Dave, a guy I used to…
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