Freiburg, Germany, and Basel, Switzerland (Photos 2/4)
reiburg, in Germany, and Basel, in Switzerland!
A long post today, with many images!
Basel first:
Basel Zoo:
More shots of city and river:
Freiburg -- my first time in Germany!:
A long post today, with many images!
Basel first:
The Rhone! My first sight of this famous river
View from a train
Train station
Construction...
Sunrise
Irish pub!
Basel Minster, burial site of Erasmus
Basel Zoo:
Ponies!
More shots of city and river:
Turkish restaurant!
It's interesting to see random English names among the memorial plaques --
I wonder who they were and why they settled in Basel?
View of the Rhone from the Minster. Squint, and it looks like centuries ago...
One little person was very excited by the green trams!
Argh, I thought I'd fixed all the sideways images. Still not sure why Blogger does this.
Tree planted in honour of Albert Schweitzer
Swiss francs! They're updating the notes and will be removing all the people soon, to be replaced by generic images, so I wanted to keep a record.
There's architect Le Corbusier, composer Honegger, and artist Giacometti.
Artist Taeuber-Alp was on the 50 franc note, but that one has already been updated
Freiburg -- my first time in Germany!:
History of the cathedral, including altar dedicated to Hans Holbein the Younger
Plaque noting that the town was bombed during WWII but the Minster was not.
I just looked it up, and learned that it's the only Gothic tower in Germany built in the Middle Ages that has survived to the present day.
And apparently one of their 16 bells is from the 13th century!
Canadian grape vines!
NaNoWriMo is in full swing. Sending lots of virtual coffee and chocolate (or Scotch or whatever you prefer) to those who are writing. And to those working on other goals!
Comments
Great time you had ... and the little one just loves seeing so much ... the river, the green trams, the animoooools ... and no doubt hearing the bells ... glad you've got these reminders (sideways show or not!) ...
Cheers Hilary
~Jess
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