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Basel Slideshow
Basel
Travel Blogs from Basel, Switzerland
Time to cruise the Rhine
... the outskirts of the black forest passed by many wineries and beautiful landscapes and rolling hills. Travelled 3 countries today. Switzerland, through Germany and ended up in France. Strausbourgh sits at the apex of these 3 countries. Although we ...
Moving on to switzerland
I left rainy Scotland behind and moved on to Switzerland. I landed in Basil and spent the night at this little town near the French, German border. It was quite a nice little place and reminded me of Germany. It was nice to finally see some good weather ...
The start
That's it! I've booked my ticket around the world yesterday! So it'll be: Basel - London - Miami - San Francisco - Los Angeles - Papeete - Auckland - Sidney - Darwin - Denpasar - Kuala Lumpur - Manila - Hong Kong - Kuala Lumpur - Colombo - Amman - Zurich! ...
Gargoyle - ing in Munster
... Munster towers (there were origianally 5) and take in the view of the tri-nation geographical meeting spot of Switzerland, Germany and France. The emblem of Basel (which is to be seen all over the city on medieval buildings, monuments and fountains) is ...
Le Pays du chocolat
Après 2 jours à Mulhouse, dont on fait assez vite le tour, autant profiter de l'occasion pour se dépayser complètement.. direction Bâle, 20 minutes de train pour se retrouver plongée dans une ambiance complètement différente, en plain Pays ...
Basel
I went to Basel, Switzerland with Grier, Joey (her friend), Allison, and Julia. I wasn't very excited at first because the train station (Basel Bad) that I passed through previously didn't seem very nice, but I was pleasantly surprised when I got ...
Only a day???
... up on some U.S. news. Then I took a train from Florence to Milan and then Milan to Basel. The train ride, especially when we entered Switzerland, was so beyond gorgeous. There were so many waterfalls, big and small, from the snow ...
Volviendo a cambiar de tren
20.45 llegué a Basel y bajé del tren, pasé por el baño a higienizarme un poco y al rato abordé nuevamente el tren con destino Cologne. Seguimos nuestro día ...
Party à Bâle
... dans lequel il y a 2 clubs et des restos vraiment cool. En fait c'est un groupe de bar qui s'associe pour l'événement (Basel Watch Fair 2011) truc mondain ou tout les boutiques de luxe viennent exposer leur bijoux de partout dans le monde. Donc, on a ...
Breaking Down the Borders
Basel is a relatively small town on the border of Switzerland, France, and Germany. For us it mainly seemed like a base camp for us to travel to and fro over the German-Swiss border about 5 times in one day. You may be asking yourself ...
Swatches! Swatches! And More Swatches!
... he shops! After getting our stuff together, we set off on an adventure to collect countries – a venture across the border to Switzerland. After a lot of construction on the highway, we made it to Basel for lunch at Mövenpick. The waiter ...
Keep On Truckin
... ensure our compartment. We had a quick pizza dinner at Hamburg before boarding our train and returning to Hannover ... and onward to Basel. We had the compartment to ourselves virtually the entire time. Paul slept well; I, fitfully. We were delayed in the ...
Last rest day.. back on track again tomorrow
... . We are all set to go now – good rest and a nice catch up. Quite nice to see where they were living in Basel too. Their flat was really big. Nice and light and airy and they had a big kitchen and bathroom too, so that makes ...
3 corners in Europe
Switzerland, Germany and France all met around Basel. An old city that the Rhine river flows through. Lots of walking and shops to explore BUT very expensive.. Obviously the Swiss have $$$$$$$. Pastries are not what they were in Austria, cappicinos ...
Départ de l'aventure
Mercredi 7 Juillet 2010. Charlène et moi nous sommes envolées de l'aéroport de Bâle ce mercredi 7 Juillet à 12h40. Premier départ à l'aventure ensemble, équipée d'un énorme sac à dos qui nous a suivi tout le long de notre voyage. Première ...
Basel and Heidi
... ) is a sweetheart...reminds me of my Eppie who will tolerate petting when it suits him. Heidi lives in Muttenz, a suburb of Basel, which exists of small hedge rowed streets with typical Swiss houses tucked away We walked a block, got on the ...
Basel, Freiburg, Saarbrucken
For the rest of the field study we went to Basel, Switzerland and Freiburg and Saarbrucken Germany. They were all actually pretty similar. Nothing too exciting to tell, pictures tell all. We also went to the Maginot Line; the French ...
How Suisse it Is - We're Here!
... Sun. We were treated to a luscious lunch buffet and a couple of beers. Once 3pm rolled around we all got to our cabins to unpack and nap. The happy campers crashed around 9pm after dinner and port on the poop deck. Tomorrow we tour ...
It's "fun" to stay at the YMCA
... be the case. We have been staying in a combination of dorm and privates on our travels and some hotels, depending on cost and availability. Switzerland was so expensive that we were back in the dorms at the YMCA in Basel (yes, we even did the dance on the ...
Basel, Switzerland
Thursday 10th July - Sunday 13th July 2008 Basel, Switzerland (Still staying at Sulzburg, Germany) Just to make our map of traveling look even better, we've split this travel blog in half so that we can pinpoint that we have also managed to get to ...
Le grand départ
C'est ici que l'aventure commence... Aéroport de Bâle/Mulhouse. Notre vol s'est bien passe jusqu'a Londres ...