Hotel Balegra Basel

... 2 pairs of jeans for 50 francs (the lady stuffed up – they should have been 80 francs.. hehe!). We ate klopfers for lunch – my very favorite Swiss sausage YUM!! In the arvo we went on the little boat across the Rheine, watched a DVD with Erika, and she cooked us Raclette - a Swiss cheese dish that’s way more yum than Fondue.

The next morning we made it to Interlaken! We got there, grabbed some lunch, and then caught train the Grindelwald, which ...

I have had to work the last two days but I managed to leave a bit early today so I could talk my parents to the Van Gogh Landscapes exhibit at the Kuntsmuseum.

They have enjoyed wandering around Basel the last two days and are now in love with the city. We all really enjoyed the exhibit as well. We decided to go for the audio guides on top of the admission to the exhibit but it was a really great thing to have. The ...

Après 2 jours à Mulhouse, dont on fait assez vite le tour, autant profiter de l'occasion pour se dépayser complètement.. direction Bâle, 20 minutes de train pour se retrouver plongée dans une ambiance complètement différente, en plain Pays alémanique. Heureusement que j'ai quelques vieux souvenirs d'allemande du Collège/Lycée, ça aide beaucoup ...

Arrivée à Mulhouse dans l'après midi après 7h00 de train assez éprouvant, ça fait plaisir de retrouver des amis pas vus depuis longtemps. Visite de la vieille ville de Mulhouse le Samedi, la Ville est Assez industrielle, ce n'est aps encore l'Alsace de Carte ...

... 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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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 ...

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1 pair jeans

2 Eagle Creek nylon web belt (w/ hidden pocket) – very comfy and practical

1 Swimsuit

1 Zippered hoodie jacket/sweatshirt

1 Wide brim cotton ranger hat

1 Eddie Bauer quartz watch – "waterproof" kind of; water seeped in after less than a 2 months. Had to buy another one. Keep in mind: it has to look cheap though so that it doesn’t attract unwanted ...

... palace that has since been restored.

Local Treats
Keep an eye out for Basler Lackerli, which looks like gingerbread, but contains no ginger!



Another tip is to pop into one of the many pastry shops and sample the pralines ...

... in my head). Everything was very clean and the rooms were so cute. I met a girl there who had been studying abroad and knew my friend, Mary Beth, from school, which was such an interesting coincidence. It was raining when I got there, so I stayed in and enjoyed relaxing for a while. I really wanted to see at least a little bit of the city even though I had to catch the train in the middle of the day, so I woke up early. I just walked ...

... to work so well in my favour; I'm sure that once they quit giving me their bemused look they can only come to one conclusion: She's pumpkin positive. " Pumpkin positive refers to the idea that a person's brain is so tiny that a penlight shone into their mouth will make their empty head gleam like a Halloween pumpkin." Back to brunch; a few hours were spent eating, catching up and so forth, and then we headed our ...