2013.08.04 – Munich (Germany) \u2013 Basel (Switzerland.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We woke up early today as we wished to catch the 10:30am train toward Basel. Before leaving the hotel, we enjoyed once again the excellent courtesy breakfast buffet. Our nearby subway station remained closed as result we had to take the bus to the train station. Being Sunday, the streets were fairly quiet. We waited for our train for about 45 minutes. We enjoyed the comfortable train ride. Along the way, we heard Walter\u2019s frustration with German life as he sat our table in our carriage. Later we bid him farewell as we took different train connections. We arrived in Basel near 4:00pm. We had a very short and costly taxi ride from the train station to our hotel – La Balade. We challenged the driver honesty and we sought support for the hotel agent \u2013 but to no avail as we had to dish out 15 euros for our taxi ride. The experience was not a very good start to our short stay in Basel. After settling into our hotel room, we ventured out on mostly deserted streets of Basel. We had supper at pub-like restaurant. We took advantage of the free transit card to enjoy travelling across the various neighbourhood on the tram lines. Basel appeared very strange to us as it was partly Swiss-German, French, etc. We did not bother changing any Euros into Swiss Francs given that we were leaving the next morning. It was also strange to be staying at hotel that did not have any on-site reception desk as the access to the hotel was controlled by our room’s card.<\/p>\n\n\n
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