Country Info
- Bern
- Capital
- Swiss Franc (CHF)
- Currency
- 7,283,274
- Population
- CH
- Country Code
Basel Slideshow
Basel
Travel Blogs from Basel, Switzerland
First CS experience
As i had the job interview for the European Championship in Basel i surfed my first couch ever. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel ...
Basel
Train to Basel took just under an hour then we had the whole day to explore this interesting city. Cathedral, Old Town squares & narrow streets as well as Market Square were highlights. We returned to Zurich around 4pm then headed out ...
Preparations under way
... freak to just wing it.... Need a plan! :-) For those interested in the countries we've picked, we have: Switzerland United Arab Emirates Malaysia Australia (west coast) Tasmania (maybe) New Zealand Back to Australia (North) Indonesia Vietnam China ...
My favorite place, Basel
I loved Basel. It is such a artistic, unique city. On the boarder or Switzerland and Germany.. the people were kind. We encountered a few young men on the water front who we talked to and they ended up inviting us to a BBQ that night. We had fun trying to ...
Basle Fastnacht
Basel Fastnacht. 3 hours of mayhem where Baslers wearing fantastic face masks and costumes parade through the old town playing Guggenmusik while giving onlookers lollies, blood oranges and other gifts such as pink hats, flowers and g-strings(!?) - ...
Always wanted to go to Basel Switzerland!
Basel Switzerland: Always wanted to go to Basel Switzerland! Actually ever since a friend/my children's teacher Karin fondly talked about Basel and her Grandmother who lives in there. And I am so glad we got the opportunity this ...
D'Läggerlyhagger spyyle!
... competition on the way in, we also went to see a very special group indeed - the d'Läggerlyhagger ("Läckerli - a biscuit specialty in Basel - hackers"). Why are they special?, I hear you ask. Well, dad was in their founding group, way back in the day ...
1st full day in Switzerland
... and a big screen for watching of the Euro 2008 Soccer stuff later this month. It is happening throughout Switzerland and Austria. The main city marketplace in Basel was booming with people today. There was a little market set up in the plaza where I ...
Basel's Autumn Street Fair
I LOVE street performers! We saw a load of them at the street fair in Basel, about an hour away. here is my very favorite one. Click it to watch the video of this cello player at the Rathaus (grea tword for court house, ...
Basel Day 1
Today was our first full day in Basel. Unfortunately the first half of the day I was too tired to enjoy it. When we got to the hotel it was too early to check in so we left our luggage, got directions to the Old Town market area, and off we ...
Chainbesa & Morgestreich
... quotes I found on the web below for those who are interested :) Cheinbäse is a Fasnacht tradition of Liestal, Basel-Country, Switzerland. (www.wikipedia.com) On the Sunday night after Ash Wednesday, the night before the Morgestraich in Basel city, ...
With the bears in Bern and a trip to see the cuzzy
... spend too long here, enough to see the city and get a feel for it. It's no fun looking at the shops in Switzerland because everything is so expensive, it's not even worth the window shopping. The coolest thing about Bern was the bears. ...
Just chilling... the tv, tennis and football
... bothered doing so much. So we headed across the border to France to buy some groceries. It's so much cheaper than in Switzerland and we could finally buy some other food. We got enough for a few days and even some ice creams and treats ...
The Magical Mystery Beer Tour
... in three countries in one day. You see we are docked 400 yards from “three corners” the point at which Switzerland, France and Germany meet. The two Vagabums decided to smoke their $10 cigars on the railroad tracks and then go to ...
Basel – not quite French, German, or Swiss
... or Swiss – old and quaint Basel sits at a crossroad on the Rhine River, sharing borders with France and Germany, although Basel is Swiss. The influences of the France and Germany are very strong in this city most people with whom we spoke ...
Morgestraich, schwarzwald und dunkel foosball
... able to find a bus to a train to a tram to get us back home to Freiburg. The next evening we headed to Basel in the neighboring country (at 2am on a special train for the final event of FassNacht) called Morgenstracht) for what can easily be ...
Welcome to Basel, a medieval city on the Rhine
... the heart of Europe, on both banks of the Rhine. The city is the centre of the border triangle of France, Germany and Switzerland – lying between the Swiss Jura, Germany’s Black Forest and the Vosges in Alsace. The city dates back to 1AD when ...