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Basel Slideshow
Basel
Travel Blogs from Basel, Switzerland
Arriving in Basel
... , that unsettled feeling dissipated quickly as I tried to explain to a cabbie who spoke neither English nor French (aren't we in Switzerland?) that I needed to go first to Hoffmann-La Roche to pick up my apartment keys and then to my apartment. Roche is ...
Awakening
... - Basel-Mulhouse EuroAirport. As you are exiting the international terminal you get to pick one of two lines - enter France or enter Switzerland. On the French side you can also very easily get a train to Germany as well. It's about as ...
Visiting BCC
Um die Kollegen einer Geschäftseinheit in ihrem Hauptquartier zu besuchen ging es in die Schweiz. Mal wieder ein Land in dem freitags auch schon mal um 16 oder 17 Uhr nach Hause gegangen wird; nicht erst um 19 oder 20 Uhr. In dem der Straßenverkehr ...
Chapter 3 Paris – end, Basel- start.
... it takes a while to appreciate, and not only another country, but another language and even these days- another currency. Basel as cold and sunny as we arrived, but half an hour later it was raining lightly and hailing significantly. There were ...
London to Basel
... around Basel, go to the mountains, and just have fun outdoors. After getting around in the huge cities of Paris and London, Basel is a breeze! It's much smaller, quieter and, well.....more orderly. It sits directly on the border to both German and ...
Chapter 4 or BASEL II
... site seeing-especially on sunny days like this, as there are no shops open to distract you. This is the biggest difference in the Basel of then (1985) and the Basel of today. Shops have taken over the place. I really don’t remember there being so ...
7 Trains, 15 Hours, 1150km.
... get from Valencia on the 27th to Istanbul by 6pm on the 30th for a Topdeck tour. But really i just needed to get to Basel (northern Switzerland) by the night of the 29th to catch a flight. This is the story of how I accomplished a fairly optimistic plan. ...
Ciudad fronteriza
Último contacto con Suiza de momento. Basilea se encuentra en la frontera con Francia y Alemania y desde aquí el Rhin es navegable hasta el Atlántico. Aquí paramos a comer en un puesto en la plaza del Ayuntamiento y a disfrutamos del centro ...
Basel
... imagine how many craftsmen must have been turning these out at that time! The fan exhibition was temporary but magnificent. Basel is a relatively complete Medieval town centre (much restored), with many house proudly bearing their date of building eg ...
If you want, it is no dream...
... city, but were only here because the train journey is too long to make in one day, so, today Basel, tommorow - the world... or atleast Istwald, Switzerland. although were not really here for the city, we took the opertunity for a Herzel shot, leaning ...
Riding in Switzerland
Due to inclement weather, I delayed my departure to France and during the first weeks of April I travelled to various cities in Switzerland visiting relatives and friends. I am used to ride on the RH side of the road, through heavy traffic, going from 20 ...
Basel-wards
... - a little more exciting than our previous top speed of 140km. And so we headed to the Autobahn and straight down to Basel. We had again made a reservation at an Étap hotel, this one being just outside of Basel-Stadt, in the township of Pratteln (in ...
Basel and Vitra Design Museum
... Swiss rail system as we aimed to get to Weil am Rhein in Germany, the site of Vitra and their museum. We took a train to Basel and from there had to take a tram and then a bus.....had a little frustration finding the right bus and not finding quite as ...
Stop over in Basel.
The next day we left for Basel. The train ride took about 5 hours. We had an early morning flight to Istanbul the next day so we needed to be close to the ...
Shortly before departure
Day after tomorrow we'll start our 4 month trip. Our flight is scheduled for Monday evening from Basel to London to Bangkok to Sydney to Brisbane. Now as to Bangkok, we do not know yet, whether Qantas will actually take us there. They consider to take the ...
Carnaval da Basiléia
... pena é que estava de noite e muito mal iluminado, então, não foi possível tirar muitas fotos. Basel Fasnacht - O Carnaval Suíço Este é um evento que dura tradicionalmente três dias. O evento inicia-se com o desfile na madrugada e ...
First Christmas shopping in Europe-Basel
... alpes in Grindlewald is steep and there are cliff all around the pistes. So I took of on 23 for a day off from Ski. I visited Basel, a small town on the western side of Swiss and it is closed to France where I will go in the future for french studies ...
BSL-MUC-LAX
Today we start in Basel. Unbelievable,everyting runs smooth. Lufthansa brings us in Businessclass without any PAD hick-up via Munich to LA. Rental Car pick-up, Hotel check-in, all runs like a clock. The goal of the day was our Frozen Strawberry Margaritha ...
Basel SBB and Basel Euro Airport
Where the action is! We landed in Basel at around 9am, where we quickly got our bags and made our way out of the airport to get a ticket for the shuttlebus to the railway-staition. The price was 2,60 euro, not the highest of prices to be from an ...