I will go to Basel today. If the sky is fine, I am going to camp in Unanung, France. If it is heavy rain I plan to stay YMCA in Basel. but I do not make reservations.
I just now left the hotel. I went to the basement with the escalator and the supermarket in the underground shop was open, so I bought the lunch there, I went up the stairs and reached the platform of the station.
Everyone can get in and out of platform freely. For example, there are people like this. Some people "Empty Can, Empty Bottle Collector" will come into the platform and collect empty cans and plastic bottles. Everyone has a small portable light like a pen light, peeps through the garbage can and gathers empty cans. Sometimes, some people are waiting next to a plastic bottle that is still drinking.
After entering the second class car train, I placed the bicycle in the passageway of the entrance of the train and I will sit where the reservation lamp is not lit.
The ticket checker came twice. When he came for the second time, he knew that he checked my ticket already, so He passed by in front of me.
The face of the person in front of my seat changed one after another during the 3 hour ride. I had been tinkering with my smartphone for GPS recognition test, so I could not talk.
My smartphone did not recognize GPS at all. If it can not use GPS, I will not be able to achieve this trip.In parallel with testing the smart phone, I gradually became quiet.
It is Basel SBB station which is one of several Basel railway stations.
This train stopped also at the Basel station in Germany in front of the SBB station, but that was not the station I should get off.
You can confirm by photograph that it is far from Basel station.
This is the entrance of Eliza Vettenan Lage Park.
I brought my bicycle on my shoulder for about 100 meters.
I am going to start assembling the bicycle here.
Now the sky is cloudy. It is not raining now. When leaving Basel station, if it was raining and it seems to continue, I planned to stay at YMCA on the other side of the station.
Today is Saturday but YMCA seemed to have room available.
If it began to rain while I was assembling a bicycle, I planned to move to a place with a roof in the park.
It began to rain while I was assembling the bicycle,as I feared.
I evacuated to under this roof and I continued working. The assembly time took 1 hour.
The GPS recognition of the smartphone was done normally.
It seems that smart phone in the train was unable to recognize the GPS because it was in a closed room.
I am very thirsty, but I have no Swiss money.
I have only euro and I have heard that the price of Switzerland is very expensive,
I am going to Germany. And I am planning to shop.
Is it because Switzerland is not a member of the euro because it is a financial country?
The Rhine is long.
The river is a major obstacle to land transportation. Although a bridge is necessary, it was not easy to make a bridge over the Rhein river .
For crossing a natural river, the width of the river is narrower as we go upstream, the amount of water is small, and it is easy to cross.
To build a bridge upstream is easier to make than downstream.
In the middle of the 14th century, Until a bridge was built in Strasbourg, the Mitterrele bridge was the most downstream bridge on the Rhine river. In order to go from Italy to Germany, there was no way to cross the Rhine except crossing here or using a ship.
That's why I heard that Basel developed.
Basel is now the town of financial, the chemical industry, the town of medicine industry.
Basel is the town where the three countries abut.
Compared to Switzerland, prices in France and Germany seem to be extremely cheap.
It is said that it is 1/3 or less depending on things.
This is a story I heard.
I can not look it compared actually. I do not have the Swiss franc right now, and it is difficult to go out through the cash register without buying anything in super-marcket.
I have not made a reservation.
I asked " I have a tent.Can I camp here."
" I came from Japan by bicycle" I add.
she expressed "unbelievable."
Japan is very far from here.
How did you come here.
First of all, I used an airplane from Japan to Frankfurt.
And it is railway to Basel in Switzerland. That's all.
She seemed satisfied enough.
8.72Euro
I choose the setting place of the tent.
Campsite guests are mostly camping car.
I choose places where there is no camping car, no people.
When the tent set is over, I will go shopping.
Tomorrow is Sunday and all supermarkets are closed.
I heard that all other shops are also off.
GPS position information is as follows
n47.35.27 e7.34.28)
It is 47 degrees north.
The latitude of Tokyo is 35 degrees north latitude. This place is quite north compared to Tokyo. It is the same latitude as per Sakhalin.
The most south position of this trip is here. I will go north from here to every day everyday.
Today is Saturday, so we need to buy some food for tomorrow.
Passenger ships pass under Passerelle des Troys Pays bridge.
Everyone dances and eats happily.
Today is Saturday.
The ship that went down the river while sounding the beat sounded back now.
Every AugustThere is a Basel Line Swim event.
They look like they are swimming in a floating bag, but they are not.
They are only pulling the floating bags.
In other words, this is a baggage bag.
They move in a river, like this in a stream. , After finishing the swimming and going up to the shore, I have to walk back to the place where my baggage is located. So it seems that an air-bag combined bag which can be carried without wetting the baggage was developed.From Mis Ikiyo Hirakawa's blog
Yes, Switzerland is a maritime nation.
Switzerland, Germany, France and so on circling twice, but neither border inspection nor tax inspection was done. A completely free pass.
Basel people live in a border town. They live with the good of the three countries.
Tomorrow is Sunday, all the stores seem to be closed.
I have bought food, so I am safe tomorrow.