Stickin' Close to Home

On Saturday, May 28th, we were planning on another day-trip (possibly to Interlaken), but it was the A-team's 8th full day on the road, Sarah and Katelyn were sick when they got here, and Iz and I had come down with the same upper respiratory crud.  We were all bushed.  So we decided to use it as a day to get caught up, do some laundry, rest our bodies, and take a walk in Basel.  Instead of going down our "normal" side of the river (the east side), we walked down the west side and didn't get many pictures (the buildings are newer and not so interesting, etc.).  I did click a few shots of things on the other side of the river (you may have seen different shots of the same place).



Sarah or Israel got this shot looking towards the old part of town.

After we had walked into the "old" part of town, we stopped for an early dinner at one of our favorite Italian places overlooking the Rhine.  Of course, I took pictures of our special little guest at dinner who was totally animated and then started hiding her food under the placemat:

After dinner, we walked to the Marktplatz where the Rathaus (court house) is located:



Then we meandered through some of the adjoining streets:

We made a visit to the Munster on the top of the hill.  Like half of the buildings in Europe, it is under renovation, so look beyond the scaffolding.  The coolest thing is the sun dial on the clock tower along with the clock.  We have seen this on several large church buildings in our travels.  They're usually pretty close minus the hour for daylight savings!  I just love all the intricate details on this old, old church:

In direct contrast to the Munster on the west side of the river, I took a quick snapshot of this building, the Basel Messeturm across the river on the east side.  It is the tallest building in Switzerland.  Quite the difference, huh?

After walking part of the way back home, we decided to take a tram the rest of the way.  It was Katelyn's first official tram ride (she thinks it was a train---it's on tracks, right).

We needed to get home and get to bed.  Church was the next morning and then we were headed to France for the afternoon.