The occupancy rate of these tables will increase in direct proportion to the ambient temperature. Bro Paul will doubtless provide us with the formula….
Looking over Rheinhessen’s vineyards towards renewable power generation on the distant ridge. Ugly as shit, but hey, they’re subsidised….
Either that, or the Nestles factory in Mombach is assaulting our olefactory glands again…..
A springtime and autumn ritual. (Seen at Euromaster in Mombach) Shedding summer/winter tires (as appropriate) and donning the reverse. Back in the day, it was common sense to have tires…
Which translates into Cafe Indulgence, and they’re not far off with the name. If you go anywhere for a continental breakfast in these parts, you’ll normally get Butter packaged in…
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.
It’s hard work, making all that twee stuff for Mainz’s wimminfolk at the market. Although. I have it on impeccable authority that a) it’s necessary, b) it’s great value for…
Ms jb’s job for the last 30 odd years was to manage the rentals for a high rise block with 650 apartments. Last day today and the company’s website is…
…..stuff like this doesn’t turn up at our place? I’m not too keen on the colour nor the pattern, but I DO like the price……
….at H&L This is a lampshade in a parallel universe…..
Jürgen Hofmann took over his Dad’s vineyard a way back and has developed it into one of the top addresses for wine in the region, if not nationally. His wife,…
…doubtlessly another excellent wine from Jürgen Hofmann. Twin bubble air lock
Ancient and modern in Jürgen Hofmann’s cellar in Appenheim
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…
“I ordered it 3 years ago and I’ve been waiting all this time for your delivery driver…”
Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune II’s new location in the Breidenbacherstrasse
You mostly see these symbols as stickers on the rear windows of badly driven cars. (The drivers – all with a tranquil smile and exuding clouds peace and love –…
The gals from H&L appear to have tapped a source for cheap labour. I keep on telling these little people (there are 3) that getting unionised would be to their…
We had a heap of insulation work done on the house this year, involving stripping out the old insulation from the loft, pumping in 30cm of Isofloc cellulose, ripping out…
..goin’ round and around http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct2n2iiiIGQ Happy 70th, Keef…
It’s Christmas time. This is the Schillerplatz, one of Mainz’s major squares and by far the busiest. So where are the Christmas decorations? I’ll tell you where. Creating shareholder value,…
Try ’em/like ’em. buy ’em at Appel Happel in Lerchenberg
I’ve been helping organise the Alzey Pottery Market for the past few years – set up their website, got some decent content from the potters (a profile so that people…
… but I feel quite safe here…
They’re selling ostrich eggs on the market. Either that, or I was using my 10mm lens again without noticing….
This Riesling certainly packs a punch! 135% alcohol! They’re normally between 13% and 14%. They forgot the decimal point, you say? Oh…..
Ronald Huckels must be the friendliest guy on the market in Mainz. He’s usually there Tuesdays and Fridays selling organic sourdough bread and other goodies and I’ve never experienced him…
….my dear Watson Furred-up (and otherwise stuffed) heating elements on display at an electrician in the Neustadt
The hoolie on the Gartenfeldplatz a few weeks back was really quite excellent. And not only for N’Eis’s ices. Café Prego is a 1968 10hp Piaggio Ape 400, fitted out…
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…
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