It’s a sad commentary on the times that orchardists are having to fence off their groves and risk being beaten up (happened the other week) if they challenge someone stripping…
Drais is a village with a fair bit of history. Settlements dating back to the Celts and the late Iron Age (850–450 B.C.E.). Pretty much par for the course around…
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.…
MediaMarkt, a big-box consumer/electronics store, frequently has stunningly effective marketing campaigns, mostly aimed at grabbing market share. The current one: Buy something – anything – and front up at the…
After 2 weeks of abstinence (the Provence is very nice, but you can get really naff coffee. Even if they DO run out and get you pain au chocolat…) so…
Don’t see anything as flash as this in Mainz very often. The outdoor seating area belonging to Gerti’s Saftladen (juice bar – freshly squeezed juices, smoothies and salads) in the…
Is this something like “Plug and play” or have I got things mixed up again. As far as I can work out from the picture, you drive out to one…
…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…
But somewhere else, if you don’t mind… “Smokers don’t die of cancer – they freeze to death in front of the pub” Seen at the Bürgerhof in Gonsenheim
“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 Gautor Apotheke, a pharmacy in the shadow of the Gautor at the top of the Gaustrasse, closed its doors at the end of 2011 after 70 years in business.…
It snowed last week. We’re only DAYS away from the summer solstice and it’s SNOWING? Paul at the Kaffee Kommune 2 tries to get us in the mood with bunches…
At the very excellent Shakespeare & So in the Gaustrasse
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…
I can’t recall the last time I voluntarily drank filter coffee, but Paul at Kaffeekommune Zwei (@kaffeekommune, #kk2) in the Gaustrasse extracted a promise from me that I’d at least…
I have no idea how long the folk opposite the pharmacy in Klein-Winternheim have been reading the Allgemeine Zeitung, but from the detritus that’s attached itself to the newspaper tube,…
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…
Caffea Moguntia Caffee Monguntia Moguntia Kaffeerösterei changes its name so often, I have difficulty keeping up. The same with their recent intern Svenya, pictured here. If we hadn’t drifted by…
Not really my tasse de thé as one says around here, but I’m sure this delightful example of decadence (Kevlar with real diamonds, I’m told…) will just fly off the…
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…
I can highly recommend Manuka Island eco cottage, at the end of a 1km long private road that goes over a bridge and a causeway right to the edge of…
Charmaine “Char” Jack is a director of Edito, a design store on the fringe of Nelson’s CDB featuring an eclectic mix of antique and contemporary furniture and accessories. Also recognised…
…we have hairdressers sprinkled around the globe. I have Chantelle at Zoom in Mapua, Yilmaz in Mainz and Ms jb for in between. Ms jb has Brunhilde (I think…) in…
It all started with a group of artists in Tasman, a small village 30km from Nelson, with Steve Fullmer, internationally acclaimed ceramicist (I have the honour of doing his website…
The Fischergasse – as the name indicates – was in days gone by the centre of all things piscatorial in Mainz, in the same way that the Eisenturm marked the…
….you’re likely to lose in one of these pokie/one-armed bandit dens of iniquity. What pokie/one-armed bandit dens of iniquity?
More like ” I got you, babe”. Success story for a dating website while the Minthe crane sits there and mopes, wondering why it’s not at all attractive to the…
Not that we have constant Arctic-level temperatures here, but there’s a plethora of ice-skating rinks that spring up at around this time of year and none more central than the…
…and two for tea…er…coffee. Ms jb and CMG discussing clothes (that’s all they ever do…) at Caffee Moguntia’s TSOW the other day. On occasions like this, I pay and stand…
…..same as different to the old boss” The ‘Oo Dominic Müller has taken over the day-to-day running of Caffee Moguntia from his mother Brigitte Müller-Dildei and her partner, Karl-Josef Schwarz,…
..if I liked the style, I wouldn’t like the colour….
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