All worth it!
So this part will be done according to Visa....Shengen first....
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| Basel Walks |
First stop: Basel, Switzerland
which happens to be on the border of Germany, France and Switzerland. So, one can do their shopping in the country of preference as its a 15 minute drive to the next border.
This resulted in breakfast in Switzerland, a day trip to Germany and dinner in France. What an amazing experience!
Stayed with friends, Italian friends- living in Switzerland whom I met in South Africa ... "Its a small world after all ...."
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| Vitra Design Museum, Germany |
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| Basel city |
Freshly baked bread (sorry body), freshly picked cherries long lovely walks through the town and the town centre, beautiful sunny days spend on the balcony surrounded by flowers and nature. Such a lovely time with the wonderful Arista family!
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| Bubbles on the Rhine |
Fun fact: in Switzerland, you can only own two cats, you are not allowed to have just one. The same applies for fish? the don't want the animals to be lonely??
Next stop: Ulm, Germany
Visit lovely Kermit and family, they live in the most lovely little town called Neu- Ulm. We cycled into Ulm town centre, ate more fresh bread (I'm swelling just thinking about it..) , walked down the market/ festival on the Danube River, spent time in beautiful beer gardens surrounded by rolling green hills and rivers. We Cycled to see the skew hotel over a joining river and the Munster which is a church with the tallest steeple in Europe, with 768 stairs to climb to the top, decided against climbing to the top as I assumed I'd need my legs for the rest of my holiday.
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| Beergarden Love<3 font=""> |
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| Ulm city |
On our last evening there we headed to the Danube festival thing, and Kermit had been telling me since I arrived about these Dough things that I HAD TO TRY. Said they were a delicacy and that everyone loves them and blah blah blah... so being the good sport I am, popped on in my mouth chewed- swallowed- tried not to gag in front of the"dough ball" chef and my hosts.
Kerm and his wife giggled and giggled and giggled as we walked away....with swirling beer in my mouth attempting to rid my mouth of the taste of what I later found out was a COCKS BALL. Yes! a male chicken's testicle was ingested by me!
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| Lots of Cocks testicles sacrificed for this dish! |
Fun Fact: Einstein was born in Ulm. (and probably ate the balls of Cock for every meal... maybe why so smart?? anyone notice if I am any smarter since Ulm?)
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| Ulm Prettiness |
There is so much more to say, but cant bring myself to bore you all, and by "you all" I'm pretty sure I mean me reading this to myself when I am 80 and suffer with memory loss- I really don't want to bore 80 year old me ...
Who'm I kidding I probably will have to read this next week to remember....
That's it for now folks ---next instalment: England and Ireland... am I allowed to put them together in a post after Brexit? hmmmm ?
Ps: so SO SOO grateful to both my lovely hosts... so grateful to have you as friends !! thank you thank you thank you for showing me around your picturesque, beautiful and friendly towns...
Pss: you may find me knocking on your doors again :) hehehee #selfinvite ahahaha
PSSs: apologies for krappy spacing- In the create place it looks good! on your screen it goes krappy I apologise-no actualy blogspot should apologise.. I take it back ;)
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