Travel around the World

  Basel - A Swiss City Trip Part II   In February, I wanted to attend a concert of Bring Me the Horizon and A Day to Remember in Basel. Since I've never been to Basel before, I wanted to combine it with a sightseeing trip. At the end, the concert was postponed to next year and I was heavily thinking, if I still should go to Basel or not and luckily, I went there, having a great time. Since I already had a day of vacations on a Friday, I took the chance to take an early train to Basel to have enough time to explore the city.      Basel, which was ranked among the ten cities with highest quality of life in the world in 2019, showed up with many beautiful areas to relax on the banks of the Rhine, but also around the landmark of the city, the Basel Minster . The original Catholic cathedral was built in a Romanesque and Gothic style and it characterizes the cityscape with its red sandstone architecture and colorful roof tiles, its two slim towers and the cross-shaped...

  Zurich - A Swiss City Trip Part I   Last summer, I had the spontaneous idea to travel to Zurich for a weekend trip. It was one of the cities, I always wanted to visit and since it was just a two hours journey from Freiburg, I definitely had to take the chance. Most of Zurich's sightseeing places are located within the area on either side of the Limmat river, between the main railway station and the Lake Zurich , where I joined a boat trip around the river. Due to the high water level, it was only possible to join a short round around the lake and the cloudy weather prevented me from having a spectacular Alps view, but nevertheless, I really enjoyed it. The boat tour was worth to do and I was quite surprised, because it wasn't that expensive with 8.50 CHF.      The tour around the Lake Zurich was definitely the biggest highlight, but nevertheless, Zurich had many other wonderful places to see . Probably the most famous view of Zurich is the one fro...