Day 15
Day 15
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Basel, Switzerland
After getting up and eating a buffet breakfast in the club X-tra we walked down the street to the bahnhof and as it turned out our train was on the very first platform that we got to. We took the train to Basel and walked to our hotel which was located in a renovated prison. Although the prison ambiance had been almost completely lost in the renovation, there were still very small doors. We then followed Corey to a Herzog apartment building that had a heavy cast steel screen that resembled the gutter drains around town(I thing Herzog probably did those as well). We found some lunch at a food court like place on the main shopping street and then walked to the Cathedral and monastery. We took a ferry ride from the across the river on an ingenious little boat which uses the flow of the river to push it across the river on a cable. We walked along the river on a street that was about 20 ft above the river. And searched all over in vain for a way too get into a courtyard ant the University that had a Herzog apartment building in it. We gave up and went to the train station to buy stomp tickets which turned out to be very expensive.
Joe and I bought some beer instead and headed back to the hotel. The place we bought it at had some 15 franc forties of Old English which was pretty ridiculous. After a couple beers at the hotel Corey, Chedder, Josh and I went to a Swiss restaurant full of some very strange and mix matched characters. At dinner it was decided that tonight would be a poker night and we collectively spent all of our change to clean out all of the peanut M&M’s out of a candy machine to use for chips. The game started off in Corey’s room where we were informed that we were too loud and were disturbing the other guests. We moved the game to Sky and Ali’s room where things got a bit out of hand, due to other people trying to tell me how I play poker. I showed them by proceeding to place several bad bets and came in second place to Ali, winning the pot of American dollars from the people who were lacking in francs. Being thoroughly drunk at that point, I offered to buy Cheddar a Döner if he came with me to find one, and so we did.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
Basel, Switzerland
After getting up and eating a buffet breakfast in the club X-tra we walked down the street to the bahnhof and as it turned out our train was on the very first platform that we got to. We took the train to Basel and walked to our hotel which was located in a renovated prison. Although the prison ambiance had been almost completely lost in the renovation, there were still very small doors. We then followed Corey to a Herzog apartment building that had a heavy cast steel screen that resembled the gutter drains around town(I thing Herzog probably did those as well). We found some lunch at a food court like place on the main shopping street and then walked to the Cathedral and monastery. We took a ferry ride from the across the river on an ingenious little boat which uses the flow of the river to push it across the river on a cable. We walked along the river on a street that was about 20 ft above the river. And searched all over in vain for a way too get into a courtyard ant the University that had a Herzog apartment building in it. We gave up and went to the train station to buy stomp tickets which turned out to be very expensive.
Joe and I bought some beer instead and headed back to the hotel. The place we bought it at had some 15 franc forties of Old English which was pretty ridiculous. After a couple beers at the hotel Corey, Chedder, Josh and I went to a Swiss restaurant full of some very strange and mix matched characters. At dinner it was decided that tonight would be a poker night and we collectively spent all of our change to clean out all of the peanut M&M’s out of a candy machine to use for chips. The game started off in Corey’s room where we were informed that we were too loud and were disturbing the other guests. We moved the game to Sky and Ali’s room where things got a bit out of hand, due to other people trying to tell me how I play poker. I showed them by proceeding to place several bad bets and came in second place to Ali, winning the pot of American dollars from the people who were lacking in francs. Being thoroughly drunk at that point, I offered to buy Cheddar a Döner if he came with me to find one, and so we did.
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