Mercure Hotel Europe Basel
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Bustling melting pot on the Rhine
From Vaduz, we crossed into Switzerland and drove clear across the country to Basel in the northwest. Basel straddles the Rhine river at the point where Switzerland meets both France and Germany. Though only a mid-sized city, Basel feels very cosmopolitan and has a very diverse population. It is one of the big economic and industrial cities of …
Day 2
Woke up this morning to see this view from our hotel window. Light dusting of snow overnight. Best thing I ever did was get travel insurance. They called me every hour to let me know the status of luggage. They located my luggage and had it delivered by 11:00 last night. A guy staying in same hotel and flew the same flights ...
Arriving in Basel
We arrived earlier this afternoon in Basel. Flight delayed 30 minutes leaving Houston so had to run to catch plane in Frankfurt. Needless to say no pictures and for those of you that know my history, no luggage. Lufthansa is saying 50,000 bags are stranded in Frankfurt. Hopefully I will get it before we leave on cruise. Going exploring in a ...
Switzerland - Day 14
... bonding session that did not need any translation, drawing doodles in the snow is apparently a universal conversation starter.
It was challenging work hiking in the snow up this Mountain with the altitude difference and the lack of recent regular exercise did not help, it was a lot of fun though and we all thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. A fairly common sight to see were young children walking up the track with their parents only ...
Switzerland - Day 13
... and come off at high speeds, the snow was so soft though it didn't matter. Once at the bottom I noticed everyone had this rope with a hook on it which I thought the regulars must have for the mini ski lift and figured that I might have to sit on my sledge and catch hold of the rubber thing. This failed however as I could not keep control of my sledge and we decoded to walk our way back up. They should start boot camp classes in the snow because that is some ...
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