And it came to pass in the hamlet of Algoma in the County of the Door in the state they call Wisconsin on the banks of the body of water…
“Times are changed; we also are changed with them” Not Silke Wolf, though – it appears that Stadecken-Elsheim’s water supply must be somehow linked to the Fountain of Youth, because…
….or something. Drifting through a local supermarket yesterday and ……Monika Schmitt and her husband doing exactly the same thing. She started the pharmacy in our village in 2004 and ran…
Andreas Wagner is a polymath Take your pick: Historian/University lecturer/Vintner/Author of academic works/Author of crime and mystery novels/ Family historian It was in the latter role that he fronted up…
Merck, a significantly large life sciences conglomerate, has its own Formula 1 team and its own philharmonic orchestra which (in a truncated form) performed a concert yesterday afternoon at the…
There are good days. And then there are excellent days. Today started off as a good day. 10°C, not a breath of wind, patchy cloud, forecast of 17° in the…
Jan rides to Mayence From Wiesbaden to make me Excellent coffee
There is but one worthy of the title in Mainz. The Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstrasse, halfway up the Gaugass on your right. If you’re not bothered if your coffee is…
“Those who knew him know what we have lost” wrote Annemarie, Billy Crash’s widow. This strikes home like an arrow to the heart. I first saw Martin – pronounced “Maddean”in…
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…
Or.. how Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune in the Breidenbacherstrasse in Mainz reached a global audience of over 50 million viewers.Via Chinese Global Television Network Six degrees of separation is the idea…
Can you have 2 places where you feel you belong? I guess so. I got tapped for the March theme and I chose – there was a bit of pushback…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past year or so, you’ll be aware that the trickle of refugees from Syria/Eritrea/Libya/Balkans has grown from a trickle to a…
My young friend Lena is studying law (but I’ve almost forgiven her for that) She’s spent the last 3 months as a foreign comparative law clerk in a judge’s chambers…
Thekla, the little sweetie from next door, was christened at the Protestant church in the village last Sunday. Heaps of folks in addition to what appears to be a sizable…
Andrew van Leeuwen and I go back a long way. Although it seems longer than just 3 years….. We hit it off straight away and I was mightily narked when…
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…
Up at the Kaffeekommune the other week when 2 ladies walked up, wavering a bit as whether to go in. “Best coffee in Mainz” I said. “If not the world…”…
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…
Stumbled over these littlies at the Piccini icecream parlour in Nieder-Olm the other day. Cute icecream concoctions – one a snowman, one the Biene Maja, an animated film character and…
Wednesday in Mainz 05’s ancient Bruchweg stadium to see a pre-season test game against Lazio Roma. 2 of Christoph’s 7 grand-kids (Grace and Freya, 7 and 5) had turned up…
Well, on second thoughts – maybe not….. Zipping through Mainz yesterday, locked up the brakes to avoid this young lady, standing innocently in the middle of the bike path on…
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…
Maria Meyer and Ute Matschke are among my favourite potters. I don’t buy a lot of their work – their target market is more families with kiddies – , but…
…to San Francisco…the Mainz University Botanical Garden Summer Fete, Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair…” Diana, Lotte and Tabea took Scott McKenzie’s advice and availed themselves of…
Our neat young neighbours, Annika and Andi, turned up the other week with Thekla, the sweetest of babies. Not wishing to be outdone, the Asio otus pair nesting in their…
…and two for tea one for coffee. Here we are again! I had the pleasure of first meeting Petrea Burchard of the erstwhile Pasadena Daily Photo way back in June…
Mainz’s crappy weather – 150km/h hurricane force winds, hail and temperatures around 12°C – brightened up by an act of Unrandom Kindness from star journalist neighbours Birgit and JW. How…
Newly knighted Sir “just call me” John Hood is a past Vice Chancellor of Oxford University, the current chairman of the Rhodes Trust and a Westlaker. Which is what we…
I met Andrew van (“with a small “v”) Leeuwen – surrounded by a bevy of lovelies , one of whom turned out be his sweet wife Anne – on the…
Local body electioneering in full swing around these parts, with Germany’s Most Wanted party political posters attached to the majority of immovable objects. Can’t say that I’l be voting for…
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