I
love bicycles, I´ve always loved bicycles, especially when Albert rides
bicycles- and I love the people that own these cool physical stores.
They´re alway´s happy. They´re surrounded every day with totally cool
and the latest tech fashion and colors of the coolest bikes. And the
store of Feine-raeder is a totally exceptional beautifully designed
store. "It has been 22 years and I love my life. I love the bikes and I
love the people that come here and try the bike and take it around the
city and they come back and say thankyou very much for helping me with
my bike. It is my love and my life." says the real physical owner of
Feine-Raeder, Claus. Yes Santa Claus!
Furtmayrstr. 10-12 · 93053 Regensburg
Telefon: 0941-700 03 65
The
coolest thing about the electric mom mobile as I tend to name it is
that you can carry your children and do super mercato shopping without
too much effort. It ranges from about 5,700.euros and
although I asked if it could come in my favorite color pink, the owner
said he has green, blue, white and black. Alright you can always custom
order! 
"And
we have 24 hr. repair, too, which is important for everybody yet
especially the students. You know everyone of these students could
afford my bikes. Do you know how much they spend on Beer?!" he says. And
that is true...a good backpack at the store is saw 49.00 euors ot
139.00 euros. The bike is 799.00 and last 6 to 10 years." the owner
says. I say that if they drink Radlers instead of beer they can spend
1/2 that amount to the bikes! 
Above the cool owner Claus:)
"The
students can come in here and if they spend 6 months or 3 years at
Regensburg they can bike the 15 kilometer city every day. A bike if
perfect for the city. Me? I ride my electric bike about 22 kilometers
everyday back and forth to work. Yet the students love to do the
fitness test. They come in and spend between 799.00 for a real good bike
to 3,799.00 for the best bike. And of course I don´t have any problem
if they come in and spend 10,000.00 euros on the 5 kilo. carbon bike
either...that is alright with me!" he jokes. ![]()
"The electric bikes is a odd perception. People think it is a motor scooter and you can just sit there, but you have to pedal it. Of course the little battery does all the work, but it helps to power and support the bike when you pedal." Now that is a new info for me!
Feine-Rader´s owner is Claus as in Santa Claus and is pictured above riding the mountain bike. You couldn´t meet a more genuine and nice person seriously. And he LOVES biking. "I love the biking world and I use my Sundays and Mondays to have fun. My fun is biking!" he laughs all the time and loves his guests. The store is a architectural wonder! "Yes we had a architect design it. The cool thing is that I almost 100% carry German Bikes. From the Specialized to the Stevens to the Reise-Muller they´re the best and when I need help from Hamburg they can help me that day. If I order parts from America it takes forever" he says.

Uhlandstraße 19, 93049 Regensburg
On bus #1 Prufering to Goethestraße. Jump off and walk straight take the first right and walk 2 block. Then, now on the left side of Uhlandstraße is the restaurant.



http://ukulele-fieber.de/unterricht-events/
Geschäft:
0941 – 50 47 4 47
Mobile:
015 20 – 680 – 17 5 3

The famous Kurt Meimer of the Ukulele store in Regensburg named Ukulele-Fieber Company has many ukulele from 49Es to 79Es and stlyes for young and old...since its been here forever, so many people know about it...please come buy all the ukulele and join Kurt and his friends as they play at the festivals around the year and at Christmas...he teaches lessons too...I even learned one song! cool.

Ukulele-Fieber Company
Lilienthalstraße 6 

Alright Kurt Meimer, pictured in the video on the article is retiring....RETIRING! "Yes I would love to continue my adult and parent supervised children´s classes that I have now, yet the ukulele instruments and the authentic hawaiian shirts are all for sale..." HINT....Since Kurt is retiring he is going to do a Big Sale here at the store...accessories and all and IF YOU MENTION EMMEANESBOOK...receive 10% on the sales!
And each hawaiian shirt is personally worn by Kurt...jha ha...he is almost as famous as Elvis in Regensburg...100s of people come to play Ukulele at the festivals...

Regensburg, home to the famous Thurn und Taxis family of such nobility that they were the Post Office system of the Roman Empire...Prince Albert 12th´s title today is Post Master General...now that is a cool title! The most significant historical achievement of the Thurn und Taxis family is the organization of the imperial postal system of the Roman Empire and in 1615 all hereditary rights to the male heir of the Thurn und Taxis, which as of today is Albert.

Erika, Stefan, Ernest Wurdack
Watmarkt 7
93047 Regensburg
Tel: 094 15 28 21



Below: GRAVENREUTHER Bavarian Restaurant
at Hinter der Grieb 10, 094 15 5050
You´ll love the young fresh style and attitude of the owners and team at the Gravenreuther...above pictured drinking a beer is Michael. "I want my team to have a good time and the guests, too. You should really decide what you want about the restaurant. Yet I don´t hire the traditional stocky stern German woman who comes to the table and when you ask for a little beer late at night they say...WAIT TIL YOU FINISH WHAT YOU HAVE!...You know. We have a young staff that only wears traditional dirndls on Sundays. They smile and laugh with the guests. We have something that is special to the Bavarian Restaurants in Regensburg...the food is of the highest quality and it is a little tiny bit more expensive than others...plus we have the famous Bavarian Tapas. I worked at one of the most famous Barcelona Restaurants 3 years...great fish etc. and of course the tapas. When I came back to Bavaria I really wanted to introduce Tapas my style...Bavarian Style...and I have. 8 different tapás from The torpedo prawns to the white fish that you are having now!" says Michael. http://www.gravenreuther.de/
"Yes that is a actual whole pig...the tourists love it...it feeds about 20 people and we mostly serve it for groups. You know 5 people could have a difficult time eating this pig!" jokes the young fun owner of the Traditional Bavarian Restaurant with a twist on the famous Hinter der Grieb alley...named Gravenreuther..."For the famous family who owned the entire street in the 1800s. They had a castle and stores here and later they split the stores to famous restaurants such as ours." says Michael Schulz. (The alley has the famous Kasper5, Vitus which is now Amore Vino and Amici and my friends that own the South African Cape Grape wine store...right around the corner from the Orphee...)
"We
have a huge beer glass that holds 3 liters. Mostly stag parties or
groups of girls will order that one...and it is relatively inexpensive.
The one tradition with it is the table drinks one sip and the next
person drinks one sip and the second to last person to finish it must
pay for it...and of course some people drink or try to drink one liter
of the 3 liters so that the person before them must pay...OOPS the
problem is if the person doesn´t finish that one liter in one sip!
Woops and the next person finishes it...Guess who pays! Some of the
older traditional Bavarians and Germans come in and say we don´t want
that tapa stuff...give us the white sausages etc and of course we have
the high quality white sausages and Bavarian kitchen for these folks!
And the beer garden...that is important too." He lets me try the white
sausages tapas which by the way are only 2.70E each and it is a little
meal...and yummy! I´ve had the soups a couple of em and the schnitzel
here all very good...and his partner Rainer owns the dance club Zarap
Zap Zap..."which is a late night dance pub and has Rock and Roll and
people from 30 to 50s...fun people that love good music but not techno
stuff...come try that too!" he says. http://www.zarapzapzap.de/
Join the Friendly fun loving 20 years Veteran! Thomas of Oma Plusch at his new Beer Garden on the Danube...right at the foot appropriately of the famous LOVE LOCK BRIDGE in Regensburg...The team is CRAZY FUN, the BEER is BISCHOFSHOFs and the MUSIC IS LIVE on the RIVER...
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Oma in da Antn
Badstraße 32
at the foot of the Love lock bridge
93059 Regensburg
Tel.: 094 185 45 5
http://xn--oma-plsch-v9a.de/

Here I am on Easter! surrounded by the young staff and team that has to work on Sunday while the big boss(above) is having fun with his friends and or family(wait that is christmas in America!)...Above-tom! and the team at the new Oma Plusch which is aptly named Oma in da Antn(the Grandma in the Golden Duck)...Meet Moritz, Robert!, ME, and the youngest Chef in Regensburg, MAX! at the age of 21!)

"I´ve been with Oma Plusch, Tomas, since about 4 years as a drinking visitor and 1 year as a team member,"says Moritz...he is the tall one with the glasses above:)..."he is the nicest person ever." he says. i say that yes he is since the first person ever to help an independant writer(me) when I came to Regensburg is Mr. Tomas. The nicest person ever. "The beer is different since now after 20 years we have a new beer. It´s name is Bischofshofs and Weltenburger. That is the main difference and now we have a big Beer garden that holds 300 people, we are introducing big outdoor screens that will showcase the European Soccer Championships and live Bavarian Music." he says. Anything else? "Yes a couple of new items on the menus since Max, the youngest chef in Regensburg at the age of 21 has added some tasty items. The one that is the favorite for us is his big Pork...we love it. " Robert, who has been here one month, "That is my favorite too...it is salty and a huge block of pork." Is it that real big pig? I ask. "No but I have cooked that whole pig for 20 people or more. As a matter of fact, when the groups eat it they´re real drunk and they attack the pig and tear it apart." says the young chef Max. REALLY? I ask. They all laugh. "Of course not! It is Bavaria. We have eaten with forks and knifes at least the last 10 years. Seriously. When we order the entire pig we eat with plates...but it is a tender pig and if you were at Medieval fair they would use their hands and shove it in their mouths!" he says.

I must warn you about Markus...yes is a totally bad emotional buy! When I exclaim the beauty and emotion of each bag...he says, " ah ya anyway the leather is hand stitched and guaranteed for a lifetime..." it is all about the quality and the material...! http://www.mosdzen.de/

Handcrafted Leather Handbags...Opulente Optik
If you would like to meet the high-fashion leather designer, Markus Mosdzen, visit his website and or visit his place of business which is just a stone´s throw from the Stone Bridge in Regensburg...at Unter Den Schwibbogen, 1 0941 5 34 66 call
http://www.altstadtkinos.de/ for the entire schedule click on link...


The famous Garbo Theater in Regensburg, above to the left is the owner named Achim! He laughs all the time and loves America as a matter
of fact while I interviewed him yesterday he received a package with
tour books of The National Parks! in America..."I am planning a trip to
America´s West in a couple of weeks," he says. One of his best friend´s
is "Do you know the owner of Filmbuhne in Regensburg? Karin? I love
her she is wonderful," he says... would seem rather odd if his friends
weren´t in the film business I say!

What is Trumbo about? I ask since everybody is entering to see it. "That
is a great movie. It is about the screen writer in Hollywood in the
1950s that was blacklisted since he was a communist. Great film. He made
such movies as Spartucus, Exodus, and Roman Holiday which won the
Academy Award. He was one of Hollywood´s elite screenplay writers
yet because of the communist association his life was turned upside
down.I admire the story." says the boss...me? it sounds pretty
interesting and maybe it is one movie I shall see! The people who come
here watch such movies as the one showing now of Batman vs. Superman!
(Really?) I ask. "Actually in the movie they become friends." is all
that Achim can say. It is a wonderful seating theater...a brilliant
theater of arthaus classics. Must come...


93047 Regensburg Tel.: 094 15 84 045 5


The wonderful lovely story of Anton Wirkes and his family of Dirndls and Lederhosen:)http://trachtenshop.de/

Anton Wirkes, "It all happened about 25 years now...I started with being a photographer for the Motor Sports here in Regensburg and traveled everywhere around the world photographing MotorCross and having tons of fun yet of course making money was difficult! About 3 years and at that point I thought...hmm maybe I should import Turkish and Italian leather coats. When we knew that the ice cream stores were not used in the winter we asked to sell leather coats and we thought wow that is great but we had nothing to do in the summer."

Mr. Berger says that he was a waiter in a city near here named Bad Abbach and that every Sunday Mr. Wirkes came in for 7 years with his family. One day he came up to him and said that he loved the way that he dressed and would he love to come work for him? And now he is the regional manager that travels to every store and sees that each store is alright. I say that is a great story since he went from being a waiter to a regional manager just because Mr. Wirkes liked the way he dresses. http://trachtenshop.de/

here to the left is the gorgeous ones everyone is gorgeous!
And it is known as the Family that is the Post Office Heirs of the Roman Empire..,the Thurn und Taxis...in addition it is a World Cultural Heritage Site...hope everybody comes to the famous Christkindle Mercatos at Christmas and the year round to experience the special quality you can find at the wonderful place.
"How I first opened my dirndl store? ...sitting in with my coats person and I see a woman in a dirndl outside my window. I said that I really loved that dirndl. In Bavaria we can say I love that dirndl and it is the girl or we can say I love that dirndl and it is the dress. The man laughed and said which one do you love and I said both! He said that dirndl comes from his company and that is how I started the dirndl business. We now have been in business about almost 15 years. I do 1,000 and 1,000s of dirndls now. I say O I want short dirndls and the designers say that I am crazy and they make these and we have 1,000s of orders and then I say I want middle length dirndls and the designers say that I am crazy and yet I win and they make these and we sell 1,000s of dirndls. I love the creative side to it all." Anton says. "Now I tell them , that I would love bigger shoulders you know wider straps and they say I am crazy but they know I sell a lot of dirndls and they do that now:"


The German girls are comfortable with the Dirndls yet the American girls would be braver in these...sexy and cool. Okay girls especially the girls from America and Austrailia who I know would love love love these totally cool soft leather lederhosens...they can be added suspenders and cool sexy tops to wear out to clubs...and the best is you can order these from the online store. Cool. The down side? "My wife doesn´t like when we go to Oktoberfest and events because she says that I don´t enjoy myself! That I am always saying o see that dirndl see that lederhosen...it is true!" Anton says.


The lovely candles handmade at Regensburg and shipped around the world...any religious denomination, birthdays, special events...they even add photos if you want! http://www.kerzen-hueber.de/

http://www.bistro-rosarium.de/And the Rosarium likes to have fun too..check out the Studio 54 party!








"Now
I have two rooms one is almost impossible if you don´t speak German
since it uses clues on the walls and in the library books which are
written in German. The other room if you speak English you can use it
since it deals with PCs and finding the codes and clues to keys in the
PCs and the Passwords. Although I am from Hungary and the first Escape
Rooms where supposedly founded in Hungary I personally had never been in
one when I thought of my first concept rooms here." says Stefan who has
much fun showing you his imaginative and challenging rooms. "The
rooms challenge the way one thinks and it makes people use their
brains. I have videos on the rooms and radio communications and that
lets me do a couple of things. One is that if I see they need a little
help I can give clues to the guests. However some of the guests say to
you when they do the rooms, don´t give me clues...I want to do it
myself. The other way is that they can ask for help when they are in
the rooms if they want it. Some keep going on and on and forget to
ask!" he says. "If the 1hr. is up and they haven´t escaped I let them
keep trying unless there are other people booked behind them. The point
is to have fun and learn." I asked before if the people that don´t
escape if he puts them in the dungeon basement? "No it doesn´t have a
basement." he laughs.
Stefan,
who has owned the wild and fun MATRIX which is the only Escape Room
concept in Regensburg since December, says that he has made the rooms
out of his own imagination only. 
Fischmarkt 5 094 159 932 7 24
here you can play all day...at least til you escape!


"Here the girls rule, at 32 minutes it is the fastest time that anyone has ever escaped the library room...4 girls won that title...they were lucky since they happened to pick the first book out of many with the first clues in it..." says Stefan...I guess that is a challenge to the guys to beat!
Meet the Sicilian Team in Regensburg that reminds you of the movie Goodfellows...the pictures on the wall, "From when my father moved from Sicily to Regensburg...they are real pictures not staged ones. I wanted to introduce the Sicilian Culture in the way of the food to Regensburg. It keeps me in touch with where my ancestors came from and it is the only restaurant that has the traditional home-made pasta Sicilian style and fresh fish from Trieste. My family had a almost 40 years University Italian restaurant and me and my partner, Andrea, moved here about 6 months now. I love it. It is fun. It is risky and it is young. I am very happy here with mostly my staff from Germany yet we do have one American at the bar and one girl from Poland!" Says Davide who along with his German waitresses say they have the best Italian food in town!

"As you can see we have REAL FRESH FISH!"
says the young owner, Davide!, who along with his other Sicilian born chef, Andrea!, bought the French Restaurant and turned it into a Homemade Pasta Swordfish Sicilian Italian Restaurant on the elegant Hinter der Grieb 8. It used to be Vitus. Around the alley is the famous Orphee.
The alley has Sicilian Italian, South African Winers, French Orphee...it is akin to walking down the United Nations! 094 19308 1525

Andrea´s father shows off the fresh fish that is brought from Trieste every Thursday to the Amore, Vino and Amici.

"The restaurant is a new start and has a young team. The wine is special too, we
don´t have Chianti, we don´t have Antinori, we have specialty wines from around Italy that most people haven´t heard about. The sommelier is from Calabria and he chooses which wines we show in the restaurant. It is challenging for us and fun for us to try new recipes and all that we give to the guests is from my ideas and Andreas ideas. It is important that the restaurant is ours." says the proud Davide. "You know life is always a risk yet it is worth it."
Meet
Udo, "Frankfurt was for almost 26 years where I worked on the stock
exchange and now since the last 6 months I´ve opened my own totally cool
highest quality Seidl Chocolates in Regensburg. The owner is a
friend of mine and has been making these great chocolates the last 25
years. His store in Laaber has been here for 25 years and has a big
elephant that moves and greets the guests in the showroom...it has a big
cave and people can walk into the gummy bear cave and buy just about
any kind of gummy bears they want..." says the affable owner.
"Each
chocolate is HANDMADE remember that...and they for instance have the
easter bunny and each little chocolate with it is handpicked with care."
he says...I just want to eat it!

Is the Chocolate good? I ask. "IF Lufthansa airlines hadn´t used the chocolate for its first class guests every year the last 25 years I could say that the chocolate isn´t good...however they choose us, Sheraton and Hilton around the world choose us, and the 7Star Hotel in Dubai chose us to present a Mosque Chocolate to the guests in the hotel rooms...if a 7star chooses you you know that your´re good." he says,. I say that if the Dubai Burj Al Arab 7Star chose them they know their the best. For instance the picture to the right is the 2bedroom suite at the Buri Al Arab..."honey can I have some of the chocolates please!"

https://www.seidl-confiserie.de/
SEIDL CONFISERIE Sweets and More at Posthorngässchen 3
094 159 99 16 80
Here a kind couple filmed the elephant and the chocolates at the headquarters store!


http://www.the-whisky-brothers.de/
The Whiskey Brother´s in Regensburg has been here since a little month before Christmas...it is run and passionately owned by two brothers, Jonas and Andreas. They LOVE Whiskey and Andreas worked in Japan and Scotland to name a few countries where his love of the Whiskey Distilleries grew. "We thought it fun to open one here. It has been much successful and the best is the Whiskey tastes that we do. You must reserve to come and whether you are taste tests normal whiskeys or Exotic ones the price is from 65Es to 95Es...The people love it. We occaisionally drink whiskey ourselves...maybe one time per week. At home? We drink Orange Juice and cola!" Jonas says.

The Whisky Brothers
Whisky Store / Whiskyladen Regensburg
Glockengasse 8
Telefon: +49 (0)941 99 224 415
Here the start of the tastes...mine they gave to give a friend... a wonderful Cream Whiskey from Switzerland...yum! 
Tel: +49 (941) 89059170


Come meet the wonderful Team of Spital Breweries and especially the new young owners of the beer garden, Conny and Tony. "We came on the team on board in January. My family owns a restaurant and beer garden (we had Bischofshof´s beer there sh...) " Tony says. "Here my wife loves the Chocolate Stout and me? the pale ale. Now since the Chocolate Stout is a winter specialy beer, we´re ready for the Pale ale...You are welcome to try it..." he says. ME'? OF COURSE I WANT TO TRY THE CHOCOLATE!

"You know you ask me if since I am a Regensburger if owning the oldest Brewery in Regensburg´s Beer Gardens, the Spital, here since 1226AD"! if it is a Dream come true...follow me..." says the young Tony, Anton in German. My German assistant giggles and says "I think he wants to show us something." and we follow him to the openness of the beer garden looking at the bridge. "Here is amazing...look at the view. Can you imagine owning such a place?" he says with the help of my German Assistant. Wow!" The best view and beer garden in the famous Regensburg. And 800 people in the summer! "Yes we´re starting to think about hiring people for the summer months starting in May. You know now we have a small staff and the people that cook the food have been here a long while. However for the next couple of months we have to start hiring people to come in May. Am I worried about so many people drinking all my beer? Yes it is super busy yet it should be fun!" he says.



I first meet the Public Relations Archives person, Ms. Kaser, then her great assistant who is officially my Regensburger Google Translator who guided me to the Brewery where we met the Brew Meister Mr. Loesch, "I am 28 and I´ve been doing the brewing since I have been 13 years old!" he says. "Here is where I brew the beer and the upstairs is real old...since the 1226 it has been here. We have CO2 filters and windows open though because of air poisioning...you have to be careful..." he says as he shows us around...it is pretty cool and while the normal folk don´t usually tour upstairs you can sit in the beer gardens and see the brew masters at work in the big windows...cool.and Finally to the great young team that owns the famous "800 people capability beer garden!" on the famous river.

To the left side is the famous Chistmas Mercatos where the people gather at the famous Spital Beer Gardens and above in the summer. "We are modern and have our pictures to greet the guests ont he menu and the facebooks...we´re hiring young people to work with us...it should be a great new start and many years of young people loving the Spital!" he says.

Christian and his brother Georg located at the Medieval town of Regensburg Germany are perfect experts in the rare book collection of Medieval Manuscripts...take for instance the Dead Sea Scrolls next door! "Of course the real ones are in the museum in Jerusalem and honestly priceless... the facsimiles that we have which is one from the 1st Century has every page replicated right down to the cuts on the pages and the holes in the pages. That is why it is such a treasure. And it is kept in a replica clay pot that they originally found the scrolls in." he says.
Jakobstrasse 6
93047 Regensburg
Germany
Christian says that,"We follow the hanseatic merchants honor."
The Ship is God's messenger. Her errants have his blessing. he helps her weather the elements, his creation Exchange between lands separated by oceans is a work worthzy of divine support.

The Philosophy of the giggling and unexpected curators is in the words of the brothers,
Book adventure on site
"We perceive ourselves as "carer" for your questions, wishes and
ideas. We put high value on the dialogue with our customers, be it at
your home, in your library or here in the Jakobstraße in Regensburg. It
is the "Book adventure on site" that is important to us."We keep our promises"


The Book of Kells above is Christian´s favorite book...he has himself one reprint and the original is in the Museum in Dublin!
"The Book of Biblia de los Cruzados is my brother´s favorite", says Christian as his brother and wife run in and out saying don´t come near we have the flu! "They have the flu a lot!" he says, "With little children in school they always have something!" I ask him why do people want to buy reprints of the original manuscripts? "Simply because the originals are priceless...they don´t have prices on these and seriously 99.99% are protected in museums...and the only way to see and hold the originals is with perfect reproductions...otherwise they become damaged." he says....


"Here is the Brewing Company giving a taste of its beer...we have the actual brewmaster´s come and talk about their beer and invite everybody in to try. The students love it, the tourists love it, the Regensburger´s love it. When I went to America about 4 years ago, my wife and I went to Philadelphia, New York, Cape Cod, Boston, Washington D.C. etc and we tried the different beer and one person said to me that you know when you are in Germany it is difficult to try foreign beers. And I thought that is true. When I came back I went to the Wunder Bar down the alley and talked to the then owner Goose. We said alright lets try a Craft Beer Festival. 2 years ago we started our first Craft Beer Festival and last year opened the first Beer Store here. My advertising agency partner, Martin, and I said alright lets open the beer store, theonly one in Regensburg and see how it is..." says Thomas pictured sitting around the table with 3 people.

Posthorngässchen 2 / Goldene Bären Str. Regensburg, Germany 094 1630885 40 is where you can walk in and buy one of 300 beers..."I´ve tried about 80% of em," says the owner, "of course one must taste the product in order to talk knowledgeable about it!" he jokes!

Meet the Boys of Company Birretta...owning and drinking the brew at http://www.birretta.de/ "The funny thing is one of the most expensive beers in here is a Texan Beer...an American one at 16.00euros. The ones who come in here and buy that one are always Americans! When I ask why they come to Germany to buy American beers they say it is less expensive here and easy to find...that in Texas it is difficult to find!"

"The beer festival is in Regensburg in the center on May 4, 5 and 6. Last year we had 17 brewing companies and 10,000people! We all ran out of beer the last day! Seriously! Now we have 24 brewing companies coming and I hope 20,000 people. The only one of its kind that I know of in Bavaria. Yet the best is that when they come to the festival they all say O where can we buy that craft beer in Regensburg...and of course the only place is here!" he says with a totally big smile on his face:)"One of the people who works in the store is a 5 year Brew Master and one is a Biology student...we have a great team to make our own brand Birretta Beer in the future. Of course it is something that I thought of doing yet it is expensive...let´s see how it is doing...in the meantime! WE do drink much more beer now than when we didn´t own the Craft Beer Store, that I am honest about!" he says laughing.
When I visit the advertising agency down the alley from the Beer store his assistant Kristen is moving signs for the festival around the office! Does he give her beer? "No only the bosses drink the beer in here they make us work!" she says.


"Since me and my partner, Martin, the other two partners of the Birretta are another Martin and his wife Caroline, own a University of Regensburg Advertising Agency we let the students know we are here and we try to educate these students on the different types of brewing processes. It is about taste and flavor and hops and strength and the entire package. We hope they come in here and learn about trying something new. Life is about trying something that you don´t think you will like to try. Our motto is just try it you might like it!" says Thomas.

Regensburg, home to the famous Thurn und Taxis family of such nobility that they were the Post Office system of the Roman Empire...Prince Albert 12th´s title today is Post Master General...now that is a cool title! The most significant historical achievement of the Thurn und Taxis family is the organization of the imperial postal system of the Roman Empire and in 1615 all hereditary rights to the male heir of the Thurn und Taxis,which as of today is Albert.
Below: GRAVENREUTHER Bavarian Restaurant
at Hinter der Grieb 10, 094 15 5050
You´ll love the young fresh style and attitude of the owners and team at the Gravenreuther...above pictured drinking a beer is Michael. "I want my team to have a good time and the guests, too. You should really decide what you want about the restaurant. Yet I don´t hire the traditional stocky stern German woman who comes to the table and when you ask for a little beer late at night they say...WAIT TIL YOU FINISH WHAT YOU HAVE!...You know. We have a young staff that only wears traditional dirndls on Sundays. They smile and laugh with the guests. We have something that is special to the Bavarian Restaurants in Regensburg...the food is of the highest quality and it is a little tiny bit more expensive than others...plus we have the famous Bavarian Tapas. I worked at one of the most famous Barcelona Restaurants 3 years...great fish etc. and of course the tapas. When I came back to Bavaria I really wanted to introduce Tapas my style...Bavarian Style...and I have. 8 different tapás from The torpedo prawns to the white fish that you are having now!" says Michael. http://www.gravenreuther.de/
"Yes that is a actual whole pig...the tourists love it...it feeds about 20 people and we mostly serve it for groups. You know 5 people could have a difficult time eating this pig!" jokes the young fun owner of the Traditional Bavarian Restaurant with a twist on the famous Hinter der Grieb alley...named Gravenreuther..."For the famous family who owned the entire street in the 1800s. They had a castle and stores here and later they split the stores to famous restaurants such as ours." says Michael Schulz. (The alley has the famous Kasper5, Vitus which is now Amore Vino and Amici and my friends that own the South African Cape Grape wine store...right around the corner from the Orphee...)
"We
have a huge beer glass that holds 3 liters. Mostly stag parties or
groups of girls will order that one...and it is relatively inexpensive.
The one tradition with it is the table drinks one sip and the next
person drinks one sip and the second to last person to finish it must
pay for it...and of course some people drink or try to drink one liter
of the 3 liters so that the person before them must pay...OOPS the
problem is if the person doesn´t finish that one liter in one sip!
Woops and the next person finishes it...Guess who pays! Some of the
older traditional Bavarians and Germans come in and say we don´t want
that tapa stuff...give us the white sausages etc and of course we have
the high quality white sausages and Bavarian kitchen for these folks!
And the beer garden...that is important too." He lets me try the white
sausages tapas which by the way are only 2.70E each and it is a little
meal...and yummy! I´ve had the soups a couple of em and the schnitzel
here all very good...and his partner Rainer owns the dance club Zarap
Zap Zap..."which is a late night dance pub and has Rock and Roll and
people from 30 to 50s...fun people that love good music but not techno
stuff...come try that too!" he says. http://www.zarapzapzap.de/
Join the Friendly fun loving 20 years Veteran! Thomas of Oma Plusch at his new Beer Garden on the Danube...right at the foot appropriately of the famous LOVE LOCK BRIDGE in Regensburg...The team is CRAZY FUN, the BEER is BISCHOFSHOFs and the MUSIC IS LIVE on the RIVER...
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Oma in da Antn
Badstraße 32
at the foot of the Love lock bridge
93059 Regensburg
Tel.: 094 185 45 5
http://xn--oma-plsch-v9a.de/

Here I am on Easter! surrounded by the young staff and team that has to work on Sunday while the big boss(above) is having fun with his friends and or family(wait that is christmas in America!)...Above-tom! and the team at the new Oma Plusch which is aptly named Oma in da Antn(the Grandma in the Golden Duck)...Meet Moritz, Robert!, ME, and the youngest Chef in Regensburg, MAX! at the age of 21!)

"I´ve been with Oma Plusch, Tomas, since about 4 years as a drinking visitor and 1 year as a team member,"says Moritz...he is the tall one with the glasses above:)..."he is the nicest person ever." he says. i say that yes he is since the first person ever to help an independant writer(me) when I came to Regensburg is Mr. Tomas. The nicest person ever. "The beer is different since now after 20 years we have a new beer. It´s name is Bischofshofs and Weltenburger. That is the main difference and now we have a big Beer garden that holds 300 people, we are introducing big outdoor screens that will showcase the European Soccer Championships and live Bavarian Music." he says. Anything else? "Yes a couple of new items on the menus since Max, the youngest chef in Regensburg at the age of 21 has added some tasty items. The one that is the favorite for us is his big Pork...we love it. " Robert, who has been here one month, "That is my favorite too...it is salty and a huge block of pork." Is it that real big pig? I ask. "No but I have cooked that whole pig for 20 people or more. As a matter of fact, when the groups eat it they´re real drunk and they attack the pig and tear it apart." says the young chef Max. REALLY? I ask. They all laugh. "Of course not! It is Bavaria. We have eaten with forks and knifes at least the last 10 years. Seriously. When we order the entire pig we eat with plates...but it is a tender pig and if you were at Medieval fair they would use their hands and shove it in their mouths!" he says.

I must warn you about Markus...yes is a totally bad emotional buy! When I exclaim the beauty and emotion of each bag...he says, " ah ya anyway the leather is hand stitched and guaranteed for a lifetime..." it is all about the quality and the material...! http://www.mosdzen.de/

Handcrafted Leather Handbags...Opulente Optik
If you would like to meet the high-fashion leather designer, Markus Mosdzen, visit his website and or visit his place of business which is just a stone´s throw from the Stone Bridge in Regensburg...at Unter Den Schwibbogen, 1 0941 5 34 66 call
http://www.altstadtkinos.de/ for the entire schedule click on link...


The famous Garbo Theater in Regensburg, above to the left is the owner named Achim! He laughs all the time and loves America as a matter
of fact while I interviewed him yesterday he received a package with
tour books of The National Parks! in America..."I am planning a trip to
America´s West in a couple of weeks," he says. One of his best friend´s
is "Do you know the owner of Filmbuhne in Regensburg? Karin? I love
her she is wonderful," he says... would seem rather odd if his friends
weren´t in the film business I say!

What is Trumbo about? I ask since everybody is entering to see it. "That
is a great movie. It is about the screen writer in Hollywood in the
1950s that was blacklisted since he was a communist. Great film. He made
such movies as Spartucus, Exodus, and Roman Holiday which won the
Academy Award. He was one of Hollywood´s elite screenplay writers
yet because of the communist association his life was turned upside
down.I admire the story." says the boss...me? it sounds pretty
interesting and maybe it is one movie I shall see! The people who come
here watch such movies as the one showing now of Batman vs. Superman!
(Really?) I ask. "Actually in the movie they become friends." is all
that Achim can say. It is a wonderful seating theater...a brilliant
theater of arthaus classics. Must come...





The wonderful lovely story of Anton Wirkes and his family of Dirndls and Lederhosen:)http://trachtenshop.de/

Anton Wirkes, "It all happened about 25 years now...I started with being a photographer for the Motor Sports here in Regensburg and traveled everywhere around the world photographing MotorCross and having tons of fun yet of course making money was difficult! About 3 years and at that point I thought...hmm maybe I should import Turkish and Italian leather coats. When we knew that the ice cream stores were not used in the winter we asked to sell leather coats and we thought wow that is great but we had nothing to do in the summer."

Mr. Berger says that he was a waiter in a city near here named Bad Abbach and that every Sunday Mr. Wirkes came in for 7 years with his family. One day he came up to him and said that he loved the way that he dressed and would he love to come work for him? And now he is the regional manager that travels to every store and sees that each store is alright. I say that is a great story since he went from being a waiter to a regional manager just because Mr. Wirkes liked the way he dresses. http://trachtenshop.de/

here to the left is the gorgeous ones everyone is gorgeous!
And it is known as the Family that is the Post Office Heirs of the Roman Empire..,the Thurn und Taxis...in addition it is a World Cultural Heritage Site...hope everybody comes to the famous Christkindle Mercatos at Christmas and the year round to experience the special quality you can find at the wonderful place.
"How I first opened my dirndl store? ...sitting in with my coats person and I see a woman in a dirndl outside my window. I said that I really loved that dirndl. In Bavaria we can say I love that dirndl and it is the girl or we can say I love that dirndl and it is the dress. The man laughed and said which one do you love and I said both! He said that dirndl comes from his company and that is how I started the dirndl business. We now have been in business about almost 15 years. I do 1,000 and 1,000s of dirndls now. I say O I want short dirndls and the designers say that I am crazy and they make these and we have 1,000s of orders and then I say I want middle length dirndls and the designers say that I am crazy and yet I win and they make these and we sell 1,000s of dirndls. I love the creative side to it all." Anton says. "Now I tell them , that I would love bigger shoulders you know wider straps and they say I am crazy but they know I sell a lot of dirndls and they do that now:"


The German girls are comfortable with the Dirndls yet the American girls would be braver in these...sexy and cool. Okay girls especially the girls from America and Austrailia who I know would love love love these totally cool soft leather lederhosens...they can be added suspenders and cool sexy tops to wear out to clubs...and the best is you can order these from the online store. Cool. The down side? "My wife doesn´t like when we go to Oktoberfest and events because she says that I don´t enjoy myself! That I am always saying o see that dirndl see that lederhosen...it is true!" Anton says.


The lovely candles handmade at Regensburg and shipped around the world...any religious denomination, birthdays, special events...they even add photos if you want! http://www.kerzen-hueber.de/

http://www.bistro-rosarium.de/And the Rosarium likes to have fun too..check out the Studio 54 party!








"Now
I have two rooms one is almost impossible if you don´t speak German
since it uses clues on the walls and in the library books which are
written in German. The other room if you speak English you can use it
since it deals with PCs and finding the codes and clues to keys in the
PCs and the Passwords. Although I am from Hungary and the first Escape
Rooms where supposedly founded in Hungary I personally had never been in
one when I thought of my first concept rooms here." says Stefan who has
much fun showing you his imaginative and challenging rooms. "The
rooms challenge the way one thinks and it makes people use their
brains. I have videos on the rooms and radio communications and that
lets me do a couple of things. One is that if I see they need a little
help I can give clues to the guests. However some of the guests say to
you when they do the rooms, don´t give me clues...I want to do it
myself. The other way is that they can ask for help when they are in
the rooms if they want it. Some keep going on and on and forget to
ask!" he says. "If the 1hr. is up and they haven´t escaped I let them
keep trying unless there are other people booked behind them. The point
is to have fun and learn." I asked before if the people that don´t
escape if he puts them in the dungeon basement? "No it doesn´t have a
basement." he laughs.
Stefan,
who has owned the wild and fun MATRIX which is the only Escape Room
concept in Regensburg since December, says that he has made the rooms
out of his own imagination only. 
Fischmarkt 5 094 159 932 7 24
here you can play all day...at least til you escape!


"Here the girls rule, at 32 minutes it is the fastest time that anyone has ever escaped the library room...4 girls won that title...they were lucky since they happened to pick the first book out of many with the first clues in it..." says Stefan...I guess that is a challenge to the guys to beat!
asking the girls for help...

Meet the Sicilian Team in Regensburg that reminds you of the movie Goodfellows...the pictures on the wall, "From when my father moved from Sicily to Regensburg...they are real pictures not staged ones. I wanted to introduce the Sicilian Culture in the way of the food to Regensburg. It keeps me in touch with where my ancestors came from and it is the only restaurant that has the traditional home-made pasta Sicilian style and fresh fish from Trieste. My family had a almost 40 years University Italian restaurant and me and my partner, Andrea, moved here about 6 months now. I love it. It is fun. It is risky and it is young. I am very happy here with mostly my staff from Germany yet we do have one American at the bar and one girl from Poland!" Says Davide who along with his German waitresses say they have the best Italian food in town!

"As you can see we have REAL FRESH FISH!"
says the young owner, Davide!, who along with his other Sicilian born chef, Andrea!, bought the French Restaurant and turned it into a Homemade Pasta Swordfish Sicilian Italian Restaurant on the elegant Hinter der Grieb 8. It used to be Vitus. Around the alley is the famous Orphee.
The alley has Sicilian Italian, South African Winers, French Orphee...it is akin to walking down the United Nations! 094 19308 1525

Andrea´s father shows off the fresh fish that is brought from Trieste every Thursday to the Amore, Vino and Amici.

"The restaurant is a new start and has a young team. The wine is special too, we
don´t have Chianti, we don´t have Antinori, we have specialty wines from around Italy that most people haven´t heard about. The sommelier is from Calabria and he chooses which wines we show in the restaurant. It is challenging for us and fun for us to try new recipes and all that we give to the guests is from my ideas and Andreas ideas. It is important that the restaurant is ours." says the proud Davide. "You know life is always a risk yet it is worth it."
Meet
Udo, "Frankfurt was for almost 26 years where I worked on the stock
exchange and now since the last 6 months I´ve opened my own totally cool
highest quality Seidl Chocolates in Regensburg. The owner is a
friend of mine and has been making these great chocolates the last 25
years. His store in Laaber has been here for 25 years and has a big
elephant that moves and greets the guests in the showroom...it has a big
cave and people can walk into the gummy bear cave and buy just about
any kind of gummy bears they want..." says the affable owner.
"Each
chocolate is HANDMADE remember that...and they for instance have the
easter bunny and each little chocolate with it is handpicked with care."
he says...I just want to eat it!

Is the Chocolate good? I ask. "IF Lufthansa airlines hadn´t used the chocolate for its first class guests every year the last 25 years I could say that the chocolate isn´t good...however they choose us, Sheraton and Hilton around the world choose us, and the 7Star Hotel in Dubai chose us to present a Mosque Chocolate to the guests in the hotel rooms...if a 7star chooses you you know that your´re good." he says,. I say that if the Dubai Burj Al Arab 7Star chose them they know their the best. For instance the picture to the right is the 2bedroom suite at the Buri Al Arab..."honey can I have some of the chocolates please!"

https://www.seidl-confiserie.de/
SEIDL CONFISERIE Sweets and More at Posthorngässchen 3
094 159 99 16 80
Here a kind couple filmed the elephant and the chocolates at the headquarters store!


http://www.the-whisky-brothers.de/
The Whiskey Brother´s in Regensburg has been here since a little month before Christmas...it is run and passionately owned by two brothers, Jonas and Andreas. They LOVE Whiskey and Andreas worked in Japan and Scotland to name a few countries where his love of the Whiskey Distilleries grew. "We thought it fun to open one here. It has been much successful and the best is the Whiskey tastes that we do. You must reserve to come and whether you are taste tests normal whiskeys or Exotic ones the price is from 65Es to 95Es...The people love it. We occaisionally drink whiskey ourselves...maybe one time per week. At home? We drink Orange Juice and cola!" Jonas says.

The Whisky Brothers
Whisky Store / Whiskyladen Regensburg
Glockengasse 8
Telefon: +49 (0)941 99 224 415
Here the start of the tastes...mine they gave to give a friend... a wonderful Cream Whiskey from Switzerland...yum! 
Tel: +49 (941) 89059170


Come meet the wonderful Team of Spital Breweries and especially the new young owners of the beer garden, Conny and Tony. "We came on the team on board in January. My family owns a restaurant and beer garden (we had Bischofshof´s beer there sh...) " Tony says. "Here my wife loves the Chocolate Stout and me? the pale ale. Now since the Chocolate Stout is a winter specialy beer, we´re ready for the Pale ale...You are welcome to try it..." he says. ME'? OF COURSE I WANT TO TRY THE CHOCOLATE!

"You know you ask me if since I am a Regensburger if owning the oldest Brewery in Regensburg´s Beer Gardens, the Spital, here since 1226AD"! if it is a Dream come true...follow me..." says the young Tony, Anton in German. My German assistant giggles and says "I think he wants to show us something." and we follow him to the openness of the beer garden looking at the bridge. "Here is amazing...look at the view. Can you imagine owning such a place?" he says with the help of my German Assistant. Wow!" The best view and beer garden in the famous Regensburg. And 800 people in the summer! "Yes we´re starting to think about hiring people for the summer months starting in May. You know now we have a small staff and the people that cook the food have been here a long while. However for the next couple of months we have to start hiring people to come in May. Am I worried about so many people drinking all my beer? Yes it is super busy yet it should be fun!" he says.



I first meet the Public Relations Archives person, Ms. Kaser, then her great assistant who is officially my Regensburger Google Translator who guided me to the Brewery where we met the Brew Meister Mr. Loesch, "I am 28 and I´ve been doing the brewing since I have been 13 years old!" he says. "Here is where I brew the beer and the upstairs is real old...since the 1226 it has been here. We have CO2 filters and windows open though because of air poisioning...you have to be careful..." he says as he shows us around...it is pretty cool and while the normal folk don´t usually tour upstairs you can sit in the beer gardens and see the brew masters at work in the big windows...cool.and Finally to the great young team that owns the famous "800 people capability beer garden!" on the famous river.

To the left side is the famous Chistmas Mercatos where the people gather at the famous Spital Beer Gardens and above in the summer. "We are modern and have our pictures to greet the guests ont he menu and the facebooks...we´re hiring young people to work with us...it should be a great new start and many years of young people loving the Spital!" he says.

Christian and his brother Georg located at the Medieval town of Regensburg Germany are perfect experts in the rare book collection of Medieval Manuscripts...take for instance the Dead Sea Scrolls next door! "Of course the real ones are in the museum in Jerusalem and honestly priceless... the facsimiles that we have which is one from the 1st Century has every page replicated right down to the cuts on the pages and the holes in the pages. That is why it is such a treasure. And it is kept in a replica clay pot that they originally found the scrolls in." he says.
Jakobstrasse 6
93047 Regensburg
Germany
Christian says that,"We follow the hanseatic merchants honor."
The Ship is God's messenger. Her errants have his blessing. he helps her weather the elements, his creation Exchange between lands separated by oceans is a work worthzy of divine support.

The Philosophy of the giggling and unexpected curators is in the words of the brothers,
Book adventure on site
"We perceive ourselves as "carer" for your questions, wishes and
ideas. We put high value on the dialogue with our customers, be it at
your home, in your library or here in the Jakobstraße in Regensburg. It
is the "Book adventure on site" that is important to us."We keep our promises"


The Book of Kells above is Christian´s favorite book...he has himself one reprint and the original is in the Museum in Dublin!
"The Book of Biblia de los Cruzados is my brother´s favorite", says Christian as his brother and wife run in and out saying don´t come near we have the flu! "They have the flu a lot!" he says, "With little children in school they always have something!" I ask him why do people want to buy reprints of the original manuscripts? "Simply because the originals are priceless...they don´t have prices on these and seriously 99.99% are protected in museums...and the only way to see and hold the originals is with perfect reproductions...otherwise they become damaged." he says....


"Here is the Brewing Company giving a taste of its beer...we have the actual brewmaster´s come and talk about their beer and invite everybody in to try. The students love it, the tourists love it, the Regensburger´s love it. When I went to America about 4 years ago, my wife and I went to Philadelphia, New York, Cape Cod, Boston, Washington D.C. etc and we tried the different beer and one person said to me that you know when you are in Germany it is difficult to try foreign beers. And I thought that is true. When I came back I went to the Wunder Bar down the alley and talked to the then owner Goose. We said alright lets try a Craft Beer Festival. 2 years ago we started our first Craft Beer Festival and last year opened the first Beer Store here. My advertising agency partner, Martin, and I said alright lets open the beer store, theonly one in Regensburg and see how it is..." says Thomas pictured sitting around the table with 3 people.

Posthorngässchen 2 / Goldene Bären Str. Regensburg, Germany 094 1630885 40 is where you can walk in and buy one of 300 beers..."I´ve tried about 80% of em," says the owner, "of course one must taste the product in order to talk knowledgeable about it!" he jokes!

Meet the Boys of Company Birretta...owning and drinking the brew at http://www.birretta.de/ "The funny thing is one of the most expensive beers in here is a Texan Beer...an American one at 16.00euros. The ones who come in here and buy that one are always Americans! When I ask why they come to Germany to buy American beers they say it is less expensive here and easy to find...that in Texas it is difficult to find!"

"The beer festival is in Regensburg in the center on May 4, 5 and 6. Last year we had 17 brewing companies and 10,000people! We all ran out of beer the last day! Seriously! Now we have 24 brewing companies coming and I hope 20,000 people. The only one of its kind that I know of in Bavaria. Yet the best is that when they come to the festival they all say O where can we buy that craft beer in Regensburg...and of course the only place is here!" he says with a totally big smile on his face:)"One of the people who works in the store is a 5 year Brew Master and one is a Biology student...we have a great team to make our own brand Birretta Beer in the future. Of course it is something that I thought of doing yet it is expensive...let´s see how it is doing...in the meantime! WE do drink much more beer now than when we didn´t own the Craft Beer Store, that I am honest about!" he says laughing.
When I visit the advertising agency down the alley from the Beer store his assistant Kristen is moving signs for the festival around the office! Does he give her beer? "No only the bosses drink the beer in here they make us work!" she says.


"Since me and my partner, Martin, the other two partners of the Birretta are another Martin and his wife Caroline, own a University of Regensburg Advertising Agency we let the students know we are here and we try to educate these students on the different types of brewing processes. It is about taste and flavor and hops and strength and the entire package. We hope they come in here and learn about trying something new. Life is about trying something that you don´t think you will like to try. Our motto is just try it you might like it!" says Thomas.

Like Night and Day is the two restaurants that Martin owns. He who "used to work in the banking system...until two to three years now I said alright I would love to open my own restaurant and start cooking! It is the first time I ever cooked! I LOVE IT. I cook great Bavarian traditional food here of course, yet in my new restaurant which is behind the Zum Goldenen Fass through the beer garden is the WILDERER´S and it is WILD and CRAZY and FUN!" says the young enthusiastic yet very serious owner.
reservations: 0941 209 14 44 9

"I am a huge believer in Facebook. I use it all the time to promote the restaurants. When the people started booking events and parties in the Wilderer they booked from Facebook. Last night we had the Women´s Day Equality Party with a live band celebrating the equal pay of men and women in Germany. Tonight a retiring party! It is a upperclass chic restaurant that is perfect for private functions...and I get to be creative and show off my cooking techniques!" he laughs and says he has to run! He is a very busy person with the running of two totally different restaurants and two totally differnt kitchens. "I love his food," says the bartender. "We of course as students can´t really afford the prime rib but we eat just about all the other food and it is really good." I say I love the french fries and both the bartender and Martin scoff at me. French fries! they say. Yes yet they´re really good french fries..."That is because we peel the potatoes here...they aren´t frozen...you know we have high quality in the restaurant." he says!

Above the upper class restaurant WILDERER´S..."I love to try new
things and to organize at first doing two restaurants that are totally
different from each other in the same kitchen was a challenge yet now
the routine is down and we are in a little bit of a thought of
now that it is summer how do we combine the beer garden between the
two...is it the Zum Goldenen´s beer garden or the Wilderer´s garden and I
thought that maybe let the two meet each other! We cook on the smokers
outside and they can share beers with each other...both of course
Augustiner since they own the building and since it is a great beer!"
Reservierungen unter 094 120 914 44 9 oder info@augustiner-goldenes-fass.de
Sitting at the bar at Zum Goldenen you will meet real cool
Germans...one named Raineeer Thuroff is from the eastern Block of
Germany during the Soviet Occupation of the 70s...he says with tthe help
of the bartender translating that he tried to escape and tthe soldiers
caught him as he was climbing the wall and he served 2 years in the East
Germany Communist Prison with 12 others. That when the wall went down
it was a mistake of the government who said that everybody is allowed to
travel from tthat day on yet they were supposed to check ids and see
who was traveling where. There were so many people zooming to the other
side to Germany that they just let everybody in! It was a wild and real
story and we spent 1hr hearing it and eating his ccake!
When I ask Martin which restaurant is more fun for him he says, "They are both very important to me. Each one. At first it is a big risk to open the second restaurant that is connected through the beer garden. It is a totally new concept in Regensburg. You know the other is a high-end meat restaurant with Filets, Rib-Eyes, New York Strip Steaks and I cook these in a indoor Manhatten style Beefer. The grill types here is with Smokers technique. I cook the Prime Rib for 12 hrs and the Pulled Pork for 9 hrs. It is very tender and it is unique to Regensburg and to all around Bavaria. That is why people love it. I own three Smokers and it is a unique technique to most people. Yes it is more expensive than the typical Bavarian Restaurant here. People can come in here as a couple and with a nice bottle of wine spend 80to100Euros on the dinner. Steaks and Fish and Spare Ribs are more expensive than a bratwurst! "

"It is the first time in my life when I say that my work is fun." Barbara says. "Thelema winery has a lot of Eucalyptus trees growing up the lane when you approach and these gave a mint taste to the wine. The last year was 2014 and now they planted new seeds. They must have 7 years to see the new wine whether it shall taste the same...it is my husband's favorite and he says that he loves the mint taste."
telephone: +49 (0) 160 5573830
south africa: +27 (0) 79 6468217

Visit Us, saysThelema Vineyards in Stellenbosch SA
We love to meet the people who drink our wines and would like to extend a warm invitation to you to visit our farm. Postal Address
P.O. Box 2234, Stellenbosch, 7601




Inside the little stone kitchen is plaques where the water has risen over the years in addition to some of the cool pictures..."That one is my grandmother's mother," says Andreas as he shows me around the little seating area. "And o that is Heidi from the famous German Artist Regine Herzog," as I notice the funny sculpture that greets you as you walk into the main restaurant which is decorated entirely in white and fawn with a cool white bench hosting 3 baskets, The other is a friend that I found online and he is an artist from Bavaria. He paints satirical religious art and a bohemian art style. They poke fun at the catholic church...not that priests aren´t human it is just hypocritical the portraits. I try to show the world who I am and I don´t like to cover myself generally as a rule." When you meet him it is true that he has a great outlook on the world and a wonderful sense of humor. Lovely to meet. Stay and try the sausages of real regensburg. I am totally fat now.
http://shop.wurstkuchl.de/epages/es262148.sf/en_GB/ for the online store of shipment around the world...

Your Murphy's Team
is the method and philosophy of the Irish Bar ...as is always in Irish Bar´s their outlook on life is...well Irish! Spiegelgasse 6 down the little alley:)
Although inviting a friend to the Theater and drinking some great wine seemed to be maybe the highlights of the Theater Ballet Dance on June 30 at 7:30 I was outweighed with the fact that perhaps in all of my life I saw the most awesome otherworldly show of the highly talented ballet dancers that night. It was awesome simply awesome...the dancers were the best I have ever seen.\\ Online-Tickets \ Kartenservice (0941) 507 24 24





Think Woodstock and find "what we would really like to do at the Rock and Roll bar, " says the always smiling manager who looks like a cross between Jason Priestly and Justin Timberlake. "We just found the cool guitars and had the owner´s sign it and the cool rock and roll pictures and built the bar around it. It is a little Hard Rock yet original private owners. I hope MIck Jagger and the great ones visit the bar and bring some instruments for us to add to the wall...now that would be cool." he says...or try open mic! night:)https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jag-deine-Eltern-nicht-vom-Hof/791241837621614?fref=ts

The
bar is elegant and already has tons of guests as you can see! Yet it is
definitely themed for rock and roll and has a cool young team of real
rock and rollers..."We have the apartments upstairs which was a problem
with noise for the Black Banana and Orange bar before. Now only people
that love rock and roll can have the apartment upstairs...That is in the
fine print...must love rock and roll." he laughs when he says that.
"Really the team here should rent the apartment since they could hear
great music even when they´re not working..." he says.

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"We
have birthday parties for the little kids...say 6 of em about 110E and
12 of em about 189E. It´s totally crazy in here at birthday parties.
They´re so excited and they have about 1-1/2 hrs of climbing. As early
as say 5 years old." says Sebastian one of
the owners of the Climbing Center. He demonstrates the little kids
climbing techniques!"The newest additions the last 15 days is upstairs
with the all family and kids climbing. It is especially a place of a
couple of rooms where the kids can climb and yell and have fun and show
the moms and dads their skills. They can show off essentially."http://www.boulderwelt-frankfurt.de/ Right next to the Langnese Ice Cream!
The young owner of Liston the most
popular Greek modern restaurant in Regensburg is only 31...all
business with a totally dry sense of humor...maybe...or maybe that
is"Socrates" my cousines name is Socrates...." ask him anything.







"The meat is the best in the world, American Prime USDA, Australia, Pork from Spain, Lamb from Ireland. We use farmers that care about the animals and are fair trade and organic. Of course when we talk to the Australians they say we don't certify organic in Australia. The cows have been in the fields since 100 years or more. They eat on the same fields for over a century. And the entire fields for 100 cows is about the size of Regensburg."" We're pretty sure that the meat is the best in the world." I laugh and say that that sounds like Australia! "You know that is all they do in Australia...it is a huge empty country so they grow great meat." says Manuel. He has a dry sense of humor! Telefon: +49 941 600 99 600 Greflingerstraße 53

When people ask how I choose the words to do the articles I say that I write the way people feel. The people at "Howdy" not really "Howdy" but that is what it says on the windows are young and fun and ambitious. Manuel is 33, "I thought of the idea about 1 year ago then I approached the owner of Kreutzer's restaurant in Regensburg. He has tons of experience in the industry and I visited his restaurant about 2 times per week all the time. I loved his steaks. I asked if he would like to do a partnership with me in delivering the best quality steaks all around Germany. Fresh and available the next day. He said yes." and the company has been in existence since 7 months now.

And the deal with the grills? "Order in the membership program one year and receive a grill free. The bigger the membership the bigger the grill...that easy." Wow 60E per month and receive a free grill. How much do you spend on meat at the supermercatos every month'? Think.

"From the online store people everywhere in Germany and into Austria can order meat today and it is delivered tomorrow." says Manuel. The meat is fresh, never frozen.

And the deal with the wine? "We are partners, the three of us, and the wine guy is Nicolas Stark. He has 25 years experience in wine. We thought it cool to carry our own wine and we named it Mrs. White and Mr. Red. Now at the restaurant Kreutzer's the best selling wine is ours! That is pretty cool." I say that I would buy the wine because of the cool labels and that they should do the Mr. and Ms. Bayern competition of Bavaria! They could sponsor the competition with the wine! How fun is that!

The three funny owners of the online Kreutzers meats. Manuel, Nicolas, Matthias Kreutzer.
"We have our own sauces for marinating too, make sure you add that and spices too. It is a total company and our goal? Everybody knows us."
Hey where is that cool package from? O I know I ordered meat from Regensburg! Here it is:)

How does one owner start from absolutely nothing and graduate to owning the 3 coolest clubs and the best little cultural cafe named Lola in Regensburg? It took me 1-1/2 years to track the elusive party guy down however I found him and interviewed him Wed night. "I bought the Pony 8 years now...I am proud to say that I earned it all on my own. I ask only me to do it not my parents. It is easy since the owner gave it to me for little and I made it a successful club on my own. The reason that it is successful is because of my staff and I hope me...they're a fun honest team and the guests love em." says Markos...
As I talk to the owner the guests play fun drinking games on the tables...the music is loud and the people remind me of fraternity parties in America "Hey" they laugh and yell at each other..."Yes it is a club that is happening about 11pm here they come in now and just start to pary...but the Sud Club...that is the loud music. Much louder than here. When I make a profit here after a couple of years I went to the Sud club and tell the owner I want to buy the Sud club!" | "And at the Sud Club which is on two floors the top floor is more R&B music, I say to the owner can I buy the Sud club and he says no! but you can do what you can to 1/2 of it and see what happens and after awhile the Sud club starts to make a profit and everybody comes to the Sud Club." After talking to him a little while I say that he reminds me of the owners of studio 54 in New York...every night they threw parties at the Club. They didn't have a Club you could go dancing to they threw parties you could attend and every night they're the host and the reason it received worldwide acclaim is the owners. The owner of the pony and the sud and lola and now the new one is charming and friendly and that is why I see that it is successful. |
"Lola is a cafe and a little bar and a Asian food and soul food...it has a little of it all...German, Brunch, Breakfast and it is open til 1am" so if you want to hang out in a cool tiny lounge and sip cocktails talking to friends it is a quiet hidden in an alley type of place...and of course from here everybody can say "I don't know does anyone want to go clubbing...let's have another glass of wine and talk about it...and at closing time! okay let's mosey on down to the Sud or Ernstl..." and the owner says...at my clubs about 2,000 guests come and if 10% keep the party going that is enough to party at Ernstl til 5am.
The only Club in Regensburg opened til 5Am with new music all Techno from Berlin! http://my-we.de/de/veranstaltungen-partys/ernstl-grand-opening
Ernstl 
Since the Grand Opening of Ernstl, where Mint used to be, is on Saturday the logo and all is a work in progress...yet when you see the dacshund you know you're close!
http://www.adrenalin-regensburg.de/
Of all the winter sports I´ve always thought snowboarding is the coolest and the one I would love to learn. When the pros go flipping up in the air and they swoosh through the powder it seems like so much fun. Meet the owners of the Adrenalin in Regensburg. The father Gosi and daughter 26, and son team all run the snowboard school and stores. The snowboard school is located in the Bavarian Forest and has 20 instructors! Cool. 24 to 25 years at the big store and he opened his first store 30 years ago.
Check out of the goggles:)

"You can come at 8am on Saturday and Sunday and we take a bus with people to the snowboarding school. It is a 2 day lesson and it is about 50Euros. That is it! It is really inexpensive. The snowboards and equipment all day to rent is only 23Euros and Maybe it is too cheap. We should make it more!" she says."Every Saturday and Sunday you can come and snowboard and do the lessons or snowboard down the mountains. It is up to you." Pictured below the snowboarders having fun. "You can learn to snowboard in one day,"she says. Her father says, "Yes it is easier to learn to snowboarding yet it is harder to master the snowboard once you learn it."
Gosi says, "It is my life. Snowboarding. I had the store a little one before my daughter Anja was born! It is my love. My hobby. I do it for fun." And when I ask his daughter to translate and ask her father the coolest thing about being the boss? He says, "A Holiday." really! All the snowboarders say they would love to work at the store it is so cool! "my brother goes every weekend to Austria and his favorite place to snowboard is Alpbachtal!" and her favorite?"I love to do powder and I´ve been to Norway already which is cool. My father´s favorite is Kashmir In India. He and my brother do the Fun Parks while I do the powder. That is more fun for me. Since I am born I´ve been snowboarding it seems." she says.


Nadine´s website google him;) He says with wonder, "You know I just opened the store from 12:00 noon to 9:00pm and people come wandering in here about 3:00pm saying O its opened early now! I am happy that they´re noticing that I am opened and it is my only work now. It is self-supporting now. " Good for Nadin.

An der Brunnenwiese 2 09404 641918



Caroline comes from Austria, "From Salzburg actually, " she says in her wonderful voice, "most of the products come from Austria whether Innsbruck or northern Austria. The chocolates come from Tiroler." I try the chocolates and they´re very good. Yum . "I started cooking here about 3 years now. Everyday it is a main dish and soup and everyday it´s different. I make all of my lunches homemade. And of course the apple strudel."



+49 941 63 08 45 40
Obermünsterstraße 3 I love her little quaint cafe and her logo is cool too with all the colors!


The coolest store is the hiking, trekking, touring, climbing sports store at Regensburg which works with the Climbing Wall Sports Centers to help people learn how to climb...and they have the coolest backpack that inflates to a huge protective balloon around you in case of avalanches when you climb! O hey anybody wanna take a hike today?

The young man to the left is Jens. He has two adorable children one of who tried to climb the climbing wall in the store, "O they all love to climb. We work with the Boulder Climbing Center in Regensburg and they send people here all the time to get outfitted with gear. The total including the rope and clothiing and shoes is about 150Euros which makes it a fun cool sport that is totally cheap to do. It is really fun." he says. Here he is hidden behind the glasses! "I don´t know why but they always hide me in the pictures" he says!





"My wife Barbara has a store that we´ve had 5 years in Donaustauf and you must really go there. It is a great store. When we travel we always meet the people that we carry in the store face to face the first time and from that point on we can do the online purchasing. Yet I want to meet the people first. It is funny though since now I run the store in Regensburg we disagree on things. I´ll say I want that in my store and she´ll say O my gosh THAT! or she´ll say I want this and I´ll say THIS! and it is funny because we´re different.!"














A new brewery just bought the building that the bar is housed in and he had a couple of unsure moments, "there was a few weeks that I didn´t know where I would be and if the bar I would be able to keep it or not. But I negotiated a long contract with the brewery and now I am secure for 10 years. That makes me happy. I had an emergency situation where I thought maybe I can go to America and Florida and become a helicopter pilot if the bar doesn´t work out. I always wanted to do that. And now I kept the bar. Maybe somewhere in the future I would love to own a bar with a location of live music. Right now we can do Karaoke and DJ yet it would be nice to own a bar with a stage." He says about the new ownership of the building that houses the bar. The brewery is named Kuchlbauer. "The beer is okay and the guests like it. In the end beer is beer. It´s not the best beer in my opinion such as Augustiner but it´s not the worst beer. As long as they own the building I have to use the Kuchlbauer beer. And it is expensive that is the bad side to it."
"My
guests range from say 17 to 35 and every semester I have the new
college kids. They like to watch the games on the sports tvs and to play
fussball and just have fun. I am getting to old to go out every night
with my team though! Now I like to hang out at home on the
couch with my two cats, " he says. And how do new people know about his
bar? except my website of course? "Every semester I do
about 3,000 little presents of key chains maybe and flyers on the bar. I
hope they remember me and come and have a good time." I ask
if he makes his team stay on Sunday at 10:00am and wrap all the little
presents? He laughs.".I used to when we opened the bar and now I have a
company help me." It´s good to be the boss!
0941 5676877 Keplerstrasse 13Here is the owners of the cool bookstore. Meet Ulrich Dombrowsky who along with his wife Daniela own Dombrowsky´s Bookstore Regensburg. The store won the award for the Best Book Store in Germany in 2014...Wow seriously that is incredible."Yes it is the award for an overall bookstore. For Everything. The atmosphere, the book readings, the children´s sections and my new idea the we say "Teenys" section." he says as he shows me the Blues Brothers posters on the wall and a little room just for the teeanagers. "They don´t want to be children and they don´t want to read adult books. They want their own section." Mr. Dombrowsky says. It is funny the little section where the teenys can sit and chat and talk about books that they love! The first of its kind "And we have about 25 to 31 guest authors every year that come and talk about their books. I choose the authors based on what I love to read. We work every year along with 8 bookstores in Germany and Austria and Switzerland to publish our own book named plus 5 which includes the best books of the year and why we included these books." He says. That is pretty cool too...here is the website to see...http://www.dombrolit.de/

"The bookstore is my love and my how do U say? My passion. I love books." he says. When I ask if he writes books himself he emphatically says, "ME? Write books!? Ah NO! I only sell books and I read books." The
specialty of his store is children and adult fiction. And in addition
to the books and the readings they have concerts and discussions here
every year. It is a funny funky bookstore that has that cozy feeling to
it. Hope you love it and the best is the online store if you´re out of
town-buy these books!




Am Brixener Hof 6 Tel +49 0941 51727



The owner is Alvin and he is hilariously cultured and sophisticated yet even those types clown around
occaisionally as pictured above with his various poses..."My sister is
Marketing and she does all of the Public Relations and Adverstiting
Promotions to help me. Here is showing different styles!" It is adorable
of course and I ask if I can show the pictures. Fun. Yet one of a kind.

"The Biedermeier name is famous world-wide since it only made one piece of each of its designs...take the chairs it is maybe 6 chairs which is rare in a series that all go together yet each table such as the one pictured above is only one made in the entire world..."the cost of such a beauty? 12,000E...I would expect it too be much higher after all there is only one. Watmarkt 3 Regensburg


Um how do I explain Astrid and her husband, Stefan and his brother Hermann? It takes an entire afternoon to do that. Number one love is the first requirement...I could live in the garden of the Brandl Beer Gardens and Restaurant at least one youthhood...walking the wooden planks up and down the courtyard and garage, the ivy covered huge stone walls that enclose the old brewery fortress, the "would you love to see the 14thCentury to 15th section of the house that my husband's mother use to live in? I would love to make it a special guest house that wealthy Americans say come to and stay a day or a maybe week and see that unique part of Regensburg and history that they otherwise could only see in museums?" says Astrid the beautiful blonde wife of the 5th generation owner of the restaurant...Would i? Um the answer is YES!
Bavarians being Bavarians at thehttp://www.brandl-braeu.de/ 0941 58433016
"It
is the oldest authentic real Bavarian Privately owned restaurant in
Regensburg," Stefan the owner says, "I've been here 5 Generations." In
walks Maximillion, "And here is number 6,"says his proud mother Astrid.
Another member of the family comes and his name is Hermann,"Make sure
that you write the name of our brewery beer it is Lammbraeu." And Astrid
the perfect host says, "Would you like a beer to taste. I should of
asked" That is after she has shown me the massive complex, her
mother-in-law's quarters, and the American collection of Corvettes! 1965
and 1968 of her husbands...and I say that yes of course I would. We
wander into the huge brewery gardens and sit and laugh and talk about
life drinking Weiße beer when Hermann joins us and there is friendly
hilarious banter back and forth between Astrid and her brother-in-law.
"My daughter is in Miami now and she loves it. She says mom and dad must
holiday anywhere except Miami since she wants her distance and
privacy!" So? they travel to Sicily soon for fun the two:)
Minoritenweg 23 0152 52 093 922
"We´re multi-cultural here, Tunisian lamps and shishas and Morocco and Syria. We have a mother of pearl and wooden inlaid poker table from Syria that you can´t get anymore since of the war. " says Al. It is precious. "In addition to all the hookahs too that students can afford since the shishas run about 60E. I don´t say O that chandelier is 300Euros and that shisha is 500Euros...everybody can buy shishas here. And my shisha lounge in about 30 kilometers from here has live music too!"


http://www.dreimohren.net/ Drei-Mohren.straße 3







The Banana Club above in existence off and on about 25 years and the restaurant Tarantino´s pictured below
is owned by a fellow named Thomas"The Banana is really my deal. I
started Tarantino´s only because the Banana had to move due to
reconstruction issues and I had to find something to do. Tarantino´s is really successful and the Banana has been reopened now about 3 months." he says. At Am Romling 1
| Am Römling 1 |

the sleek sophistication of the Tarantino´s restuarant with "the best homemade pizza from Naples Italy in town" quote the native Regensburgers...it has all of Tarantino´s famous scenes depicted everywhere...love that Pulp Fiction poster the best! Say What again.............Wohrdstraße 24
| Wöhrdstraße 24 |
"man get a hold of yourself!" and
other famous and silly quotes and vintage memorabilia on the walls of
the Banana Club...and of course these famous Pink Panther Videos that I
love!"

And the funky cool Banana tucked away down the alley.
REGENSBURG ARCADEN WHERE YOU CAN RIDE BOUNCING HORSES AND ELEPHANTS!

Ever
want to bring your child to the mall and ride horses around it? Try the
Regensburg Mall the Arcaden where there is a little section that while
you shop your child has fun bouncing up and down around the stores! It
is named ride the funny animals...my favorite is the Elephants since I
love Elephants. I am a republican.!

Telefon: 0941-57311 Kohlenmarkt 3 to 5





Jo says, "We
find furniture around Europe and we redo it such as here. A guest asked
if we could custom-make the head board of the bed and we painted "open"
on it!" (The puppy loves it too.)

The
first day that they opened was October 1 2013 and that day they had all
the friends and fellow merchants on the street in and outside drinking
Prosecco and horse duevers..."That is fun working with all my
friends who constantly call me and ask me to come and cut their hair but
I say now I have the store and they come in here instead. That is fun
and going to France and to Austria and to Italy and actually finding the
furniture is fun. We have calls from everybody who
asks us to come and pick up the furniture. We take it here and we redo
it to make it beautiful. That is what I enjoy the most." says Jo.


Here is my favorite item in the interior design store...a Prachtvolles, altes Küchen-Buffet..."We went to Belgium and bought it from a sale in a huge home...not exactly a Palace a little smaller!" Jo and Ludwig say when I ask where they found such a beautiful piece of furniture...and the proudly show me the pull-out cutting boards! COOL. THE BEST NEWS? You can order the kuchen-Buffet from the internet site and have it sent to America for less than 1/4 of what you could find a beautiful 100 year old authentic collectible in America for! http://de.dawanda.com/…/73216099-Prachtvolles-altes-Kuechen…



"My friend lives in Indianapolis and I am visiting him in the summer. We plan on seeing all of America and I would love to visit California." Stefan says. When I ask if it is because you can grow your own weed in California legally he laughs, "Of course I am for it being legal! But we too can grow tomato plants, " he says as he shows me the trays to grow the tomatoes:)

Whenever
you enter a hempy store around the world the one thing that I notice is
that they love that Mexican colors and Colombian flair of Red and yellow and green colors for the clothes...if you want a cool hat and canvas bag they´ve got these to!

"We´re doing little cheese treats and we both cook...it isn´t like fondue I don´t know what it is called in English?" he says...that´s alright we know it is with cheese:) and I love cheese...:)







The beauty of a deserted alleyway late at night in the city...and on the way to the church early morning in Regensburg...

"Yes alright take our pictures...we love working at McDonalds...:)" To the hard workers that work everyday at McDonalds and all we ever say to these sweet people...give me a Big Mac!

"We´re
having a home party where we have about 10 people and we´re all cooking
and drinking and we´re maybe going clubbing after when midnight
comes...yes we know the dinner for one! and yes we´ll probably watch
it!"



The two characters being guardians of the gate at the Thurn und Taxis estate....here in Regensburg.

Students
coming from Munchen to visit the Regensburg Christkindles all drinking
31Cent beers..."The way we see it you can drink 10 beers instead of one
glub wine..." the famous mathematicians figure out! 
Here meet Max who is a career army soldier in the German army and home to Regensburg, "I came to spend a coiuple of days til Christmas with my aunts and my grandmother. The one thing that my grandmother said that she would love for Christmas is for me to take her to the Christkindle markets. That is what I love to do spend time with my family."


The
Red Rooster in America and the um Roter Hahn in Germany...I am proud to
learn German today and especially proud to have a association with such
a beautiful restaurant and hotel in Regensburg. The Architecture is
outstandingly superb with sleek streamlined features, steel welded
stairs, all angles and elegance steering you into the modern world yet
settling into a 12 century! house, pub, barn...what was this amazing
structure you might ask as you sit down to dine on the international
menu surrounded with religious art and the owner´s wife´s stunning
paintings.
Monika Schmidt is the artist of these paintings, "They only are hung here. It is works only for my home. The Roter Hahn is my home and I paint these with love. They are not for sale." She says when I ask her if anyone comes i and wants to buy the paintings. "Yes they do but they fit here. I say o here is a wall that needs a color to fit it and I paint it and hang it here..." She says as behind her is one of my favorites of hers a wall of ivory with splashes of colors and words. They´re picassoish yet different...she has a world wide talent in her art and when I tell her that she is uninterested! She shrugs, "They only to my home. They fit here. Above the stairway in the main dining room is religious art depicting the giving and receiving of food as in the gift of life and although these paintings take on the feel of the 1000 year old stone wall set below and behind the stairs where one of her modern paintings hang, they set the stage to let hers in. It is a elegant restaurant and hotel that showcases the beauty of the 12th century beams and the 15th century well, yet allows the famous Regensburg architect Martin Scheuerer to then create his beauty with steel structures and modernism. http://www.roter-hahn.com/
Monika,
"The history of the Red Rooster is that there used to be a street named
the Scherer alley where how do you say..." she makes the charades of
cutting material and i say, "o a sewing seamstress"... and Monika
replys, "Yes and when the people with horses and carriages come here and
they take lamb´s..." as she makes charades come alive I shout, "lamb´s
wool! and it is a loom:" she smiles, "Yes and when they come they come
from the shearing to the pub. At the time it is the biggest pub in
Regensburg and they all come here. It wasn´t a restaurant at the time
only a pub and now it is a catering, hotel, restaurant. My children both
they´re involved in the business.My daughter studied at the Sansibar in
Sylt which is world famous and my son is studying to a chef. He has 1
and 1/2 years of master classes:)"
http://www.soundaktuell.de/ okay would you love to see the biggest and the coolest and the friendliest and I am saying again and again the friendliest music store in Regengsburg...check out the Sound Aktuel in Gewerbepark. 0941-46443-0.
Im Gewerbepark A 25,is where you can find these crazy guys...

Alright
and the big question is...does it really matter if the guitar costs
100Euros or 5,000E? "Yes it does. The guitars that sound the better
quality is the 5,000E ones. They sound better and you can definitely
tell the difference. That is about the range in the store. And no we
don´t carry Gibson guitars from America simply because they will only
deal in high volume and we deal in smaller quantity and high quality. We
do have Fender from America." I ask if he could pose for a picture and
you can see that he is a real guitar player since he doesn´t just stand
near the guitars but actually picks one up and plays:) Since
it is the biggest and first musical instrument store in Regensburg
they know tonsof people in the Music business and he says that he sends a
lot of people to the Music Academy to learn. It is fun at the store and
I played the drums in the private drum room...cool.
The number of people in the owner´s band he says, "Is about 12 to 13. We play about 5 times per year. I play the guitar only and everybody else in the store is a specialist in thta musical instrument...such as drums and keyhboards. Hmm and the way that I choose the guitars? That is easy I choose the guitars that I love to play myself. I try each one and play it."
loved loved loved em they´re hilarious to talk to and I suppose they have great books... we´re too busy talking to read much but they have a great section of chilldren´s books and Bernd and Andrea the team of "we´ve been with each other 25 years now...we´re still not married!" says Andrea giggling. You´ll love both of em...I felt very Jewish in the store..I could "vent" for hours and they would just add their opinions...cool people and they DO have a great children´s section...
http://www.schriftforum-buch.de/0941-46 12 38 5
Im Gewerbepark A 18
When
Andrea joins Bernd to the store she says, "O he has been telling you
all about us! I hope it is only about the bookstore!" and I say yes that
the story is about their 25 years of involvement in books! And how
only one year they´ve had the store above. As we talk
about 1 hr in and out is the people mailing Christmas presents from DHL
and they say that yes they do that in addition to the books. One person
brings in a huge Amazon box..."O all of the old books that we´ve
had a while we add to Amazon and if someone googles the online Amazon
store they can buy directly from there. But right now if you would love
to guy a book for yourself or as a gift you must come into the store."
she says. They have children´s readings and in April at the
International Book Fair they have special events. They´re a sweet couple
and funny to talk to...visit:)

Above
is Bernd who says that he is a loyal Star Wars collector. The Star
Fighter above follows you around with that toy every direction that you
take...I told Bernd that he reminds me of Jesus´s eyes in the
famous painting that no matter which direction you see the painting
from it looks like Jesus is staring at you with his eyes...that is the
Star fighter! He also has a Darth Vadar that he says is about 25 years
old and has its own story...a friend gave it to him to add to the store
since it gathered dust in his Grandfather´s basement! At the beginning
of the year Bernd has said, "I have a huge model
collection of Star Wars and I am bringing that to the store and although
I have to keep it out of the hands of children who would grab the
models I am adding it to my collection." So all you Star Wars fans can come pick out a Star Wars book and see the models!

The
coolest thing about the job Carsten? "I guess of course it is the humor
of the older people that I enjoy and in addition it is seeing how the
industry has changed in the last 20 some years. The
hearing aid itself has become tiny nad more efficient and the technology
is amazing to imagine the way it was 20 years ago and now today. It is
cool to see the technology. Maybe in future they can even correct
totally def persons but I don´t know really." I ask ifa person who is totally def can recover...maybe we need to wait and see!
Okay
here is the team of the HEARING AID PLACE IN GEWERBEPARK in
Regensburg...says the owner, "O I love working with the old people
they´re funny. I have 4 sons, 9, 7, 5, 3 and it is too much emotion to
work with the children so It is more fun to work with the older people.
Everyday they make me laugh..." he says.... his assistant says,
"different!" & Laughs.Google translate...HELP°1
0941/4611999Im Gewerbepark C01
Here is Matthias a funny German who is a
artist...he says "I am at the Academy in Regensburg. I am not very good
with my art but I try. I love Regensburg. I travel from a village 20
kilometers everyday but I wish I could live in Regensburg. But I have
money problems...the reason is okay i shouldn´t say but here it is...I
downloaded a game from the internet. I shared it with friends on the
internet. the owners of the game had lawyers track my ispn address and
they wrote me nasty letters. then two fake lawyers said that I had to
share it with them and they wanted money from me...so now Iinstead of
paying 900Euros i only have to pay 200Euros. That is what happened. I
depend on my mom and dad now to help me. But when I come to Regensburg I
am happy and I draw people. The drawing here is of a man on the bus
and most people don´t even notice you draw them becauise they´re so busy
with their lives that when I draw them I can draw and they don´t even
know that I am sketching them for my art book"
Matthias is a doll. He attends the academy near the river for art in Regensburg. https://www.cia.gov/kids-page
I told him next time download games on the cias´s page that is what they´re there for!

When chatting with bored shoppers the young college kids all say the same thing,"We love the Christkindle and we all love to drink glub wine and go out with friends. It is a Christmas feeling the atmosphere that we love the most." says the two girls waiting for the Christkindle at the Thurn und Taxis, "we wait til 8:00pm because we can afford it !"


These two college kids while posing for pictures were too shy to sing, he however sang great Jingle Bells...funny!







Here is the owner with his guests and all of his little fun things to do and all these good treats! "Hmm I say every day. I love to scuba dive however maybe I do a new career and maybe I open a new store around the world. We have a travel store too.I love to travel. Who knows maybe after 5 years I try a new career!" Um okay what could be funner than scuba diving...maybe owning a safari tour company and taking pictures of elephants" Elephants Elephants and Elephants!
http://www.travel-divers.de/tauchausbildung.html
Rudolf is funny, "I´ve been doing it 22 years. Everybody I hope loves the job that they do but as a student of scuba diving I went my first time and went away on vacation and when I came back I thought...hmm I really love scuba diving maybe I should teach classes and I taught classes and then I thought maybe I should open my own scuba store..." The funniest thing? When he opened the scuba store i ask thinking maybe he opened the scuba store a couple of years after his realization that he loved scuba diving and wanted to make a career out of it?..."o ONE DAY! " he says. One day after he taught his first student he opened his very own scuba store? "-yes it took me one day to say yes I am opening my own scuba store!" Cool



"Here
try that one, "Christine´s husband says as he hands me one of the
bubbly laboratory at about 40Some% alcohol...yum tastes good like
Bailey´s Irish Creme! and the next one tastes great too and the third is
lovely...Now we walk to the Wines and Champagnes and Christina says that Chablis "Les Vallions" is her favorite, "And the Champagne of course. Everybody loves the 20 Anniversary edition red wine. They all come in and buy it. We only have one bottle left here!" I
ask her if when the 21st anniversary comes if she thinks that they
shall send a 21st edition from the same vineyard in Spain since
everybody loves the wine and she giggles and says that she hopes so!
"The first Saturday we opened we were so busy!" That is since they´ve
only been opened about 4 weeks. "Since it is the Christkindles we´re
happy we opened now here. It has been over one year since we started the
process of buying the franchise. In Germany and the world Vom Fass has
about 280 franchises." And
have they tried all of the products in the store? Her and her husband
both laugh, "Yes of course" they say. "We have to, " he says. "It is
important to try all of the items since we need to know how to explain
them to the guests." I say that I would be drinking the products all day
long and although they seem ecstatically happy maybe it wouldn´t be
such a great idea for me to have a liquor franchise! "We hired Jan (who performs a funny pose) when we opened and today is Beate´s first day!"
She says of the people working in the store. When I ask if they´re from
Regensburg they both giggle and say they´re German as is everybody, yet
from citys near Regensburg. I
say that is funny since they all chose Regensburg yet they all come
from other places! "I know. We love Regensburg though since the people
are really nice. Really nice." I hope the new life they´ve chosen works
out perfect for them. Come say hi and taste some
of that other great liquor you know the ones that don´t begin with "Glub
wine"...we love that strong stuff:)

http://www.musik-wittl.de/CMS/index.php While you say O yes I shall sign up my child with music lessons the first store on the list is a store that has guitars and musical instruments...check out Heidi Wittl, Alfred Wittl and Anna Wittl at the Wittl Music Stores in Regensburg at HaidPlatz 1
+49 941 55892...
And start learning the guitar the way you always wanted to:)

Two Music students taking a break in the cold outside the building. The School has 600 students and has the same Bavarian Breaks that Germany has for all colleges. What does the busy owner do on his break?"sit home!" he says. Although "I went to New York about 10 years its been and took a 3 week tour in the New England states then. Beautiful," Klaus says. I ask if when he is traveling if he tries to hear the great musicians and see great jazz such as in New York? "Yes all the time.I play the guitar myself and one of the owners plays the piano and the other one sings. We knew each other from different bands and at the University and started the school you know with one student and now it has over 600 stuidents." That is a cool achievement I say and especially since he went from one student many years ago and now they´re a recognized and accredited college. Cool people cool school check it out!
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Klaus Erhart graciously posing for a picture for the website at the Music Cafe located inside the buidling where all the students are.
Zollerstrasse 1a /
Telefon (0941) 51144
"The school is 2 sections...one is a music school which is just you can come and take music classes in any class that you want to and the other is the college. The college is accredited and it is a 2 to 3 year program. The students become professionals and graduate with degrees..." says one of the 3 leaders of the private music college in Regensburg Germany pictured above. He is a friendly guy and laughs all the time as his students, young as 4! , come in and out of the door...asking questions and grabbing guitars. "We have little ones from 4 years old that take music singing lessons and the oldest is a 76 year old man that took vocal lessons one year with us." Klaus Erhart, Gunther Conrad, and Josef Meier are the three partners that started the school in "it is a Old train station building where they used to repair trains!" he says. It is a pretty cool building and as you wander the halls you can hear drums in one room, guitars, singing etc. and the anxious parents of the little ones who sit outside on the benches!
And while you mosey across the Stone Bridge check out the Christkindle Mercatos that the Spital Beer Gardens sponsorings...they have the usual punch and the Regensburgers yet a funny little haymercato with live sheep...pictured here is a little tyke with the tag of 37...I hope Prince Albert buys that one:)


stadtamhof 3 tel.: 09 41 / 8 10 74 01
the father speaks only German so becareful what you ask for! It is fun to chat and try to communicate yet you might come out of the store with a surprise pair of glasses! Fun People.
http://www.altstadtoptiker.de/ is a family owned eyeglass store...one of the opticians pictured here has been here about 45 years and he is friendly with the camera...his son is located near the huge bookstore across from Anna´s coffee in Regensburg, "We have the two stores. I´ve been here about maybe 7 years and then the other store is the first store. We have cool different lenses here. Some are pure gold from Japan and cost from 2,400E to 2,500E and the littlest is the ones that amount to about 31E...let´s say a eyeglass frame not everybody can afford is the 2,400E. Yet everybody can purchase the 31E one. That is why people come from everywhere to visit the stores. I can travel to China and all of Asia and find a unique piece if requested." The son Jens says. Visit either at Kumpfmühler str. 69 tel.: 09 41 / 9 42 95 01
the owner of the totally cool diving school named Blue Water Dives. Wow I ask if he was alive during the East Communist reign and he says, "Ah yes I lived 18 years with communist power. I am 43 years old now and honestly I had a wonderful childhood. I know that everybody had college free and my mom and dad had great jobs and we always had food on the table. As a matter of fact we were all fat because we ate too much sausages and steaks and meat. That was the staple of the communist reign. When people ask me why anybody would run from East to West Berlin I say one of two reasons... they had no chance of going West they either had to stay in Germany on the East side or they had to have a vacation in a communist country such as Russia or Czecholslovakia where communist reigned and we used to go to a lake in Cyecholslovakia and it is a beautiful vacation. Yet people felt they wanted to make their own decisions. Then the 2nd reason was that people had to do the values of socialism. The day that the Wall came down I was at my home. The day that the people could freely travel from East to West Berlin a man stood at the podium between the East and the West and read the declarations. Journalists came and television and 100s of 1000s of people and while he is reading the declarations the journalists asked when the people with passports and ids could freely travel from one side to the other. He ran his finger down the list and read and said "wow I guess as of now as of today." that is how everybody knew. Even the soldiers didn´t know. They had to let everybody with IDs or Passports travel freely between borders.!"



I am surprised and happy to meet the owner of Arnulf von Karnten since it is a long time that I met him. If you remember he used to own the biking store named Draisgang and that he opened only til his men´s clothing line came available. "I waited and waited trying to contact people who would know if the family members of the Kaiser is alive. I wanted to make my own clothing line based on his legend and his name and when I found out that he has no living relatives I asked if I could make my label with his name..." Says the owner..., Levent Oktem. "My children said Dad we want you to go to work in suits we don´t want a dad that owns a bike store! So here I am the first day of the opening of the store and in one of my suits. My son, my children are 11 and 12, said the morning today...o he is wearing a suit!" 094 1 870 090 84

With his own label I ask if he himself is the designer?"'Me? no-no don´t say that I am the designer...maybe in the future yes. Right now we work with a manufacturer and I say that I would like a shirt with that on it etc and he makes it. We put the label on it. I am only concerned about doing Regensburg right now. Maybe in one year if the business is good we can expand into other big stores around Germany. Right now it is only Regensburg. I carry only the men´s clothes as you can see the quality wool coats from 400E to the ties and the shirts. It is all business attire. Clothes that I would wear to work." he says. When I ask if he misses the bike store since everybody around Europe when I would show the Draisgang bikes to them they would say...o where is that? We want one of these. "Yes I know every couple of days people ask...do you have the bikes and I have to tell them no! I am doing the men´s clothing store now. If someone really wanted a bike I could find it for him! The thing is though I admired the man Von Kaernten who came to Germany with nothing and after 5 years he became the ruler , the Kaiser. I paralled that with my life since I came here to Regensburg with nothing then after 5 years I am a successful business man with a wife and children. I wanted to base my clothing line on somebody that I admired." he says. Wow cool story and cool store...hope you love it.


Stephan showing me the menu, "See on the page here we offer all dishes made only with Asparagus. All of the food is Asparagus."
Emme laughing hysterically: You're kidding right?.... Stephan, "Nope all of it is Asparagus and then next week is something different. " We start talking about vacations and he shows me an iternary of his trip he is planning hiking in the Austrian moutains, "We're going hiking now in the summer since it is impossible to hike in the snow there in the winter." Emme: That is pretty cool...where is the coolest place you ever went on vacation?
Stephan, "I went up a glacier and lived in a tent that overlooked the fjords of Norway. That is the most beautiful place I^ve ever been."
Emme, One of the most beautiful places Ive ever seen is the view from the Stone Bridge late at night when there is snow on the ground. It is other worldy and mystical and imaginative and beautiful.
Stephan, "You like Regensburg huh?"
http://www.meiereinlokal.de/
Emme I love Regensburg
And
run across the road to hear the violin players at the Meier Restaurant
and if you're lucky you can grab a table always always packed...
Across
the 2000 year old alley cobblestoned of course is the Restaurant Meier
which is cozy and woodsy and a cabin feel but maybe about 1000 years
ago! I could hang out there all night it gives you a warm great feeling
and that is where I chatted with the owner Stephan Kappi who is
hilarious and a bundle of energy, "Yes I owned the restuarant 19 years
and 7 years the Lux. It is great I enjoy the people that come to eat
since I can sit and talk to em and learn a little about everybody where
as at the Hotel people come and go. I love every culture. Everyone who
comes in here is nice." It could have something to do with the fact
that he is such a friendly person.
Um how do I explain Astrid and her husband, Stefan and his brother Hermann? It
takes an entire afternoon to do that. Number one love is the first
requirement...I could live in the garden of the Brandl Beer Gardens and
Restaurant at least one youthhood...walking the wooden planks up and
down the courtyard and garage, the ivy covered huge stone walls that
enclose the old brewery fortress, the "would you love to see the
14thCentury to 15th section of the house that my husband's mother use to
live in? I would love to make it a special guest house that wealthy
Americans say come to and stay a day or a maybe week and see that unique
part of Regensburg and history that they otherwise could only see in
museums?" says Astrid the beautiful blonde wife of the 5th generation
owner of the restaurant...Would i? Um the answer is YES!
Bavarians being Bavarians at thehttp://www.brandl-braeu.de/ 0941 58433016
"It
is the oldest authentic real Bavarian Privately owned restaurant in
Regensburg," Stefan the owner says, "I've been here 5 Generations." In
walks Maximillion, "And here is number 6,"says his proud mother Astrid.
Another member of the family comes and his name is Hermann,"Make sure
that you write the name of our brewery beer it is Lammbraeu." And Astrid
the perfect host says, "Would you like a beer to taste. I should of
asked" That is after she has shown me the massive complex, her
mother-in-law's quarters, and the American collection of Corvettes! 1965
and 1968 of her husbands...and I say that yes of course I would. We
wander into the huge brewery gardens and sit and laugh and talk about
life drinking Weiße beer when Hermann joins us and there is friendly
hilarious banter back and forth between Astrid and her brother-in-law.
"My daughter is in Miami now and she loves it. She says mom and dad must
holiday anywhere except Miami since she wants her distance and
privacy!" So? they travel to Sicily soon for fun the two:)
info@feine-raeder.de
Claus Blesch owner
0941 7000365 Furtmayrstraße 12
"Interview is new to me...here let me show you the bikes," the shy owner walks around his bike store and shows me the "fun" things such as the "Family Pedelec" Claus takes the cover of the front of the bike to show inside...it is a carrying car that fits two small children in front complete with its own rain cover and in the back is the bike where the people pedal. It looks like a motorcycle side car except it is in the front. "25 years I had the store of bikes. And I only own 1 bike." he says as I ask if owners of bike stores own about 12 bikes. "It has small bikes big bikes moutain bikes. Mine is a moutain bike."

http://www.irontrizone.de/ 09417040704 Bischof-von-Henle-Straße 2

Iron Trizone OHG is a serious professional cyclist's dream store...Regensburg however they laugh a lot:)
| How much are the gorgeous bikes?"They range from 1000E to about maybe 10,000Euros here but we could actually order one of about 50,000Euros! Yes you would have digital gears and all of that...but it is still a bike and you have to pedal!" Lugwig one of the owners of the store says..."It is a professional bike shop...we carry racing bikes and mountain bikes.We are the only store in Regensburg that fits you to a bike. It takes about 1hr to 1and1/2hrs to fit the bike. We video tape you, measure you, adjust the shoulders and the seat and the handlebars...and YES it does make a difference. It is much more comfortable and many more hours of efficient riding when a bike is fitted correctly." Emme...or buy a cheap bike dont get fitted and spend hours at the massage therapist...! ow ow ow ow. However come to Ludwig for those serious pros, "I choose the bike with the people and I know what will fit them." |
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: 0941 - 870 090 83

http://www.goldfuss-geigenbau.de/ The violin of 3 Ancestorial Generations at Regensburg is amazing simply amazing in fact that I am sending the article to the Philadelphia Orchestra members...they must fly here and buy a new violin! It is a true artisans woodworking palace all real and all sawdust and a handle cello here and a bass there. Little rooms of 1/2 finished violins , a huge very expensive bass cello getting reworked a new face so to speak. the father Horst sits with his wife , a lovely 60ish woman blonde coiffed hair holding a huge horse's tail long and wirey. Yes real. He pulls a couple of hairs to make the violin bow. They let me touch it and it is a real horse's tail. | Violinists the Serious ones around the world come here. 0941 53556
Thomas
the son goes into the backroom and brings back another long horse's
tail , "It is about 1500 Euros and the horse's tail takes a couple of
years to grow back." The horse's come from the region of Bohemia. "The
violins cost abut 20,000E to 25,000E each and each is custom handmade
to fit the person. It is important for somebody from America to fly
here to try the instruments in the workshop. The most expensive one in
here is about 300,000Euros."
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He leads me to the backroom where there is a huge map on the
wall, "My grandfather started the making of violins here..." he points
to a part that from Germany turned now Czech Republic.."He came from
Bohemia here. Nowadays they ship about 300,000 cellos, violins and
guitars to America from that region."
http://www.tikibeat.de/ The Tiki Beat Regensburg
http://oma-plüsch.de/ Tel.: (0941) 5 48 89 Dive into the Bavarian Cave and sit all night eating and drinking with friends that is how I see the Restaurant. As I chatted with The owner he showed me pictures of the olden times of Regensburg on his walls. I asked him how it had changed over the years the little town of Regensburg. "There was a time in Regensburg when 30% of the property is owned of Thurn und Taxis, 30% of the Government and 30% privately owned. Nowadays the majority of percent is maybe almost 20% and most is 10% here 10% here 10% here...much privately owned properties now. We used to be in then the building of where Emma's is about 10 years since and now we moved here. " ![]() | One of the nicest people I have ever met is the owner of,
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1363 Franziskaner beer
Erste Erwähnung der Brauerei |
He laughs all the time and is happy. He is the owner of Traumwerk which is a games store...you know the kind that does Magic and Pathfinder and role playing. "On Saturday we have a sneak peek event where everybody comes and plays in a tournament with the new cards not yet released Magic and it is fun to play and watch.The ages a little older say 20 years and above. It used to be only younger people played." His address since he has zero facebook or websites at the moment yes in the future... you can call his store at 0941 59937214 and come buy some Magic!
She looks just like the lady at the Jugenherberge named Elli Zimmerman
KASPER 5 AND KASPER 5 BABY
The elegance of BIG Kasper 5 and the fun and funny atmosphere of baby Kasper, "I chose Regensburg since it is perfect, too big and not too crowded..." says the bartender and his lady at the bar... Emme:
I guess it is the way of the Goldilocks and the 3 bears...it is the
baby Regensburg just perfect just the way that Baby Kasper is:)









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