We didn’t get out of the hotel until about noon. We immediately took the tram to Marktplatz and started doing a bunch of shopping. I am so upset because I found a bunch of very cheap shirts yesterday and couldn’t find them again today. We looked all over the place but I didn’t locate them. We went inside this beautiful church. It centuries old and you could go all the way up the tower. We made it a great way up before turning around. We stopped at this tight stone spiral staircase. We could not tel where it ended. Claustrophic, the heights and what if it fell. Hmm, that would be my luck! Next we went across the Rhine and took some pictures along the way and then sat alongside the river for awhile. Luckily, it was sunny the entire time. We didn’t venture into the northern part of the city other than that. By this time, it was time to eat. But before, a nice windy rain hit and turned my umbrella inside out, breaking it. What’s ten dollars after all? We ducked into this store that sold all types of trinkets. I found Basel’s city flag. After some more searching for those cheap golf shirts we found a nice bistro. I had a light Calzone and it did the trick. Now, it was beginning to rain again and we were starting to get tired. We decided to go back to the hotel. After being sick all day, my friend wanted a little rest. We found out from the lady at the Info Center there is a place where the 8 Tram takes you where you can see three countries at the same time. France, Germany and Switzerland. That’s next up on the list… My friend decided to spend a little downtime at the hotel. I wanted to find those cheap golf shirts because we thought we spotted them on the trip back to the hotel. I took the number 8 back downtown. I didn’t find them but and maybe the best find of the trip for me was seeing a stained glass hanging in this metal shop. It was too much to spend but I found a Baselstab, the symbol of Basel. It was 35 euro and I bought it. Earlier in the day I found a Basel flag. After going back to the hotel, we ventured out to the place where you can see three countries at once. It was on the northern side of the city and again we took our favorite tram, the number 8 all the way to its end. At the time we went there it really wasn’t a popular time for tourists, and it was out in the middle of nowhere. We saw two rats and not too many people. We got the pictures we wanted but not before it started to pour again. We quickly got out of there and headed back to the city. We checked out the hotel restaurant and had something to eat before retiring for the night.
