Basilisk Hotel Basel

... I know where I am, it feels safe and familiar and I relax properly. So we slept in and when I got up Erika and I spoke to Dad on Skype for a while. Erika cooked us some lunch and then Megg and I went into Basel City to wander around. We walked over the main bridge and watched people swimming in the river, walked through Marktplatz, along Friersrasse, through Baerfusserplatz, saw the cathedral – the Munster, sat behind the cathedral overlooking the river, and Megg ...

... gave us a lot of information not on the signs and plaques next to the paintings. It took us about two hours to go through the collection with the guide as a companion. It was a really great exhibit; very informative and interesting. We learned a lot about Van Gogh during our time there and it was so cool to see how is talent progressed over time, along with his mental instability.

After the exhibit and mom ...

... que frontalier, les bâlois rechgignent clairement à parler Français, me prenant pour une Suisse qui ne fait pas d'effort. Ce n'est qu'en parlant de Sud de la France que j'arrive à faire admettre mes lacunes en allemand et à discuter avec la dame du Musée Juif, seul Musée de Bâle ouvert le lundi. Et bien sur. faire avant de repartir sur ...

... mais c'est déjà dépaysant. après le musée des Beaux Arts le Dimanche Matin, on profite d'un temps digne de celui que j'ai laissé sur Avignon pour aller prendre l'air et la verdure au parc Botanique et zoologique de Mulhouse qui vaut vraiment un détour.

... The street that winds behind the theatre past Atlantis to the Elizabethenkirche was shut down to traffic and absolutely overflowing with people. They were squeezed into nooks and crannies with their caipirinhas, cachaca, and beers. Holding the crowds from spilling over into the cross streets were booths selling trinkets and treasures from around the globe, food stalls of amazing variety, and ...

I don't know why it took me this long to learn that there are large Roman ruins only 20 kilometers from Basel, but now that I know I wasted no time in getting there for a visit.

It was a incredibly hot day today and walking between the ruin sites and up and down ancient theatre steps was much more exhausting than you would otherwise expect. However, it was all well worth the trouble.

At Augusta Raurica (founded in 44 BC) there is an open-air museum and ...

... And while we expected to find the omnipresent American pop culture and the American fast food chains literally everywhere (with the particular surprise that they seemed to be ubiquitous in the vocally anti-American Qatar), we didn’t expect to hear an icon of local culture like Garrison Keillor on the Australian Public Radio or, surprisingly given how many foreign apples you find in the American stores, American apples ...

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Basel on a budget



Known as the 'cultural capital' of ...

Basel was our second to last stop in this trip. The problem with Basel was that it took us three hours to get there by train, and then when we arrived we had to literally walk outside the city to get to our hotel. We arrive at the Basel train station, and then we had to find our tram that would take us to the edge of the city and country that is. Basel is ...

... east indian guys who continuously stared at Wendy in a completely obvious way. It almost came to the point that I was going to have to take off my shirt and show them the guns. Lucky for them it didn't go that far. There were also three incredibly rude obnoxious guys from Brazil that talked on their phones while the rest of us where trying to sleep and then they set there alarms for 4am and didn't leave the room until 6.