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…
“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…
…that this dude will not survive until his Best By date of May 2025. Handmade with love in the minute kitchen at the Kaffeekommune with a witty repurposed coffee bean…
Liesbeth is a cafe on the Zollhafen in Mainz, tucked in next to the Kunsthalle in what used to be the engine shed for the port Port. It’s been there…
This is too cool. Rosi was born in Mainz in 1934. She’s lived here all her life. She’d always talked to her grandchildren about her life, whether through their interest…
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…
People in positions of authority must be reading Mainz Daily Photo. Or maybe it’s just in in Sharona’s DNA….
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…
You know who’s pulling shots at the Kaffeekommune inthe Breidenbacherstrasse as soon as you rock up. Fresh flowers on the table? Either Julia (from Mainz) or Sharona (from the Baltics)…
Davis Slack is a speech writer, woke (as in: knows history and sees an injustice at 100 yards) as shit, humourist, published author and all-round good guy. He writes daily…
“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…
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…
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…
Down here in NotNelson, I’m really spoiled for choice. In Mainz, there IS only one coffee house worth considering, namely Paul Bonna’s Kaffeekommune. Paul himself, with an espresso cup…
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…
If you’re partial to a decent sized piece of Fleischwurst, a roll and some mustard, the go-to place in Mainz is the Harth family’s mobile butcher on the market. Tuesday,…
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