Basel Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Thursday 10th July - Sunday 13th July 2008 Basel, Switzerland (Still staying at Sulzburg, Germany) Just to make our map of traveling look even better, we've split this travel blog in half so that we can pinpoint that we have also managed to get to Switzerland, albeit it many only have been for a couple of hours. As Basel is only about 45 minutes...

My experience in Europe has taught me many things, one lesson being the shameless begging for free lodging. I put this theory into praxis not only in Strasbourg, but also in Basel, hitting up Linda (a friend of my Dad's from high school and college) for accommodation. Switzerland doesn't have one official language and the local lingo depends on ...

Just after seven o clock the phone rings. Sh.... did I forget to set the alarm? Its Kaspar. He is already awake for a long time and the first thing he says; "the weather is better, lets go". Breakfast, taxi to the airport. It is still windy and snow and rain comes and goes. I do the flightplan, they prepare the aircraft. Its still pretty rough w...

in basel i got off at badischer bahnhof which is next to the flat of a friend of mine, i went there but unfortunately nobody was at home. the weather was so beautiful so i decided to go to the rhine. bought something to eat and to drink and enjoyed the sun at its bank. when the sun went down i decided to go to the city center. when i left bern i...

Nothing much to say, really. Went to Switzerland for half an hour, had some McDonalds. They have shrimp things. I'ts weird.

Time to start heading home now..... 8 hour drive from the Lakes, past Milan, up through Lake Como and into Switzerland. Not much to say here......back did go into Basel for a photo. Note: not really giving much thought as to how the Basel project in getting on, hope that Ralph is still sane though.

Lost one backpack - we realised when the train was just entering Switzerland!! Nothing valuable except for the travel docs - and the traveller's guide. An my contact lense pack!! Full day of reporting to the police, contacting embassies, back and forth to the station's lost and found (well, i'm an optimist by nature! Maybe tomorrow). Oh, and opt...