For several weeks I’ve been writing about the
history of small towns in
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Texas. The next few blogs concern the much older
cities we visited on our trip from Basel, Switzerland to Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Basel is in northwestern Switzerland on the Rhine River. We arrived a couple of
days early to allow for jet lag and do some sightseeing on our own. Our first
surprise was that the EuroAirport Basel Mulhouse Freiburg is actually in
France, and if you go out the wrong door, you end up with taxis that only go
to France. However, the cabbies are used to confused tourists and kindly helped
us get to the Swiss transportation. Basel, essentially, is located at the nexus
of Switzerland, France and Germany with suburbs in each country. It’s not
surprising that although the official language is the Swiss variety of standard
German, many people speak French and English as a matter of course.
