Hotel Basel

... a bit higher up. Then we caught a gondola and hiked back down for 2.5 hrs. We had almost perfect weather (it was a little hazy) but there were heaps of para-gliders, cows with bells etc.. We were going to go via Lucern on the way home, but we would have got home too late, so we headed back to Basel to find dinner ready for us – I love staying with people!!! Spent the rest of the evening looking for work and then had an early night before heading to Gossau in the morning!

... 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.

... br>It was like traveling the world in a few hours! A great time but a bit too crowded. As the night wore on the crowd seemed to grow even bigger, or at least more exuberant. But the atmosphere was very festive and everyone was having a good time.

From what I have been told it is tamer during the day and more geared towards children, but anytime during the festival seems to be a good time out.

... ruins scattered throughout the area around the museum. We of course went straight for the large Roman theatre and then walked over to other nearby sites, including the temple facing the theatre, the main marketplace and town hall, a bakery, and the very interesting well house and bath house where you can go down into the well and look out to the bright sky high above.

All the walking combined with the heat had us pretty wiped out so we headed back to ...

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Other items we brought along:

sleeping bag liner (2) – never really used; didn’t rough it up so badly

Bath-sized pack towel (2)

Ditty bags (2)

Eye masks

Multitool

Nylon wallet

Leather wallet

Shaving tools

2 toothbrushes

toothpaste

L aundry kit (universal sink plug, nylon clothes line, hand wash detergent)

2 Sanitizers
Basel, Basel, Switzerland gapostol

... a melt-in-your-mouth memory. And while you might not be able to afford a piece of famous Swiss jewellery or a designer watch, you will, of course, find chocolate shops galore.



Our tip is to take a wander along Heuberg and Nadelberg ...

... following different signs to see the famous spots. I did not get a chance to learn much about them, but Basel is definitely a place to which I will return! I got onto the train to Koln after buying the book 'Around the World in 80 Days' by Jules Verne, which has really been the perfect travel book. Julia picked me up at the train station and of course it was raining, starting off the visit to some not so good luck, but still a great time!

... ways - but not before picking up my suitcase which I'd left with a lady in Basel during my trip with Tom [see his blog for details]. We're still not sure what's going to happen to it in the long-run, but it's been a pain enough to warrant a mention of its future at some point! Our next item on the agenda was to pay a visit to my great-aunt, who was not so long ago put into a care facility. I must say, she ...