The day was beautiful and sunny and Tina met me at 11.30 for us to do some sightseeing. We went into the city Centre and walked. Firstly to the Cathedral and in the square outside they were preparing for a big festival which would happen the next weekend. The Ferris wheel was huge. We caught the ferry across the Rhine and walked along the bank to a restaurant where we had a salad for lunch. Walked back across the bridge and went to the Basel Historical Museum in the Barfusserkirche and saw the Cathedral Treasury collection, as well as other exhibitions of Basel's history.
We then walked to the MUSIK Museum which is housed in the former Basel prison. A simply wonderful place with large musical instruments displayed in the 3 hallways and the cells contained other exhibitions of different types of instrument. There was an interactive panel in each room which gave a history and played the music of the particular instruments . Fabulous.
Off to a place for coffee and the to Basel's oldest hotel where Tina insisted we had champagne -Moet - and watched the sun set over the river. Off to a restaurant then and I had veal liver- a traditonal Swiss dish. Life can't be bad...
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