Hotel Alfa Basel

... city is. I have never been more bored. Even in Brussels, the political capital of Europe I had a better time. I guess today was a day of realisation. I went to an art museum featuring many notable artists including Picasso. I realised that I really don’t like art. Its boring and I don’t understand how this squiggly line represents this, and how that nude guy holding an apple is anything other than blatant homosexual pornography ...

... the gift shop, we went to the pedestrian area and I searched for gnocchi. I did not find gnocchi on any menus but I did find an Alsatian restaurant, so we all had flammkuechen and a refreshing Swiss wheat beer (mom opted for the Swiss wine).

We didn't stay out too late because tomorrow my vacation starts and we are getting up somewhat early to begin our road trip across Austria, which I am really looking forward to!

... un petit stock de chocolat.

La ville est vraiment à voir, ne serait ce que pour la cathédrale, au cloitre plein d'anciennes pierres tombales plutôt curieuses en tuf et pour sa crypte peinte de fresques du XIV° siècle. Un autre truc sympa: le jardin botanique et les serres exotiques, près du Spalentor.. et en plus, c'est gratuit :)

... 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.

... course drinking stations and small tented dance "clubs".

Most of the way you didn't really have to walk as you got pulled along in the current of bodies. We eventually got to the square next to the church where there was a little more room to maneuver and delicious food to sample. We checked out all the little African shops and stopped to watch cooking displays and mini dance routines.
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... would pray before a battle, and I suppose give thanks after if they were in the condition to. That was pretty cool. It was at the bottom of a slope in the middle of a privately owned field covered in cow patties. It was like a mirage; crumbling stone pillars and massive bricks rising above the steamy grass in a meadow that seemed never ending.

After that we really could not handle any more heat so we headed back to the blissfully cold car and made our way home.

... check out some of that mustard next time I'm there. Sadly they are closed on weekends. From there we went to a very smokey drinking establishment in a former bank. It was nice and very busy but the smoke got into my skin and clothes and I stunk when I got home. Still, if you don't mind the smoke it was a nice spot to hang out and have a drink. The name escapes me now ...

... taken in enough religion by visiting a cathedral in every city they had visited. After our pasta tea, we found out the tea bags conveniently stolen from Emma's (although, I hasten to add, we did replace Emma's stocks of tea before we left, we're not complete scroungers), had a quiet drink, then headed out for the evening, as it was around 9.00 by this point. We had assumed Mr Pickwicks was a quaint one-off ...

... way up to the 30th floor. There was red lighting and a very nice view. But our group wasn't there so we left since they place smelled like an ash tray. We eventually got back on the tram and rode around for quite a while, and then we went back. Yesterday was fun. We went to the Munster which is the cathedral. It was built in the middle ages and is Romanesque. It is now an Evangelical Protestant Church. I was surprised by the amount of ...

... Where the hell are we? I asked I had to drive the van last night to warm it up!!!! he responded thank god! I thought I was kidnapped (actually, why would anyone want to kidnap me in switzerland) Snowman and i took a ride to get some coffee and all we could think about was the rest of them, in their beds, warm, and sleeping. So we came back to our dirt road and popped open his laptop in the front seat and ...