Visiting the north of Switzerland

In Basel it is really nice to hang out at the Rhein river, especially at the Klein Basel site. There you can find places to change your clothes and many people swim down the river. So I did too, but you can see people even put their clothes in a bag to carry them along and to keep them dry (also on their way to work). I did a walk through the old city center, and we went to an old castle, but sadly it was raining. On the way back, we met some people who are part of a collective, who heat up the fountains in the city in winter and where people can bathe in warm water. When we met them they offered us to participate to make self-made pasta on the street (under a bridge) and invited us to join, so we did our own pasta and enjoyed a meal in the end together with some other people which passed by. In the evening we cooked together, and one time went to a party in a house nearby, where we danced and sit at the fire.

For the trip to the nature, we took a train, which passed by Dornach, where the Goetheanum is, the center for anthroposophy. Then we took another bus and hiked up a mountain to the rocks of Pelzi, a known climbing area near Basel. There we met some really friendly Swiss people, who recommended us several climbing routes, and we took turns in climbing and lead climbing to manage the routes of various difficulties. For the night we had bought some food to cook on the gas cooker, but we had only very little gas left, so the 10 of us were a little afraid off starving, and so we soaked the pasta in cold water and heated it up slowly with very little gas. In the end, it was not the nicest meal, but actually pretty much. After a night camping in a tent at a spot we quickly searched before it got dark, we hiked down to the train station the next day and went back to Basel.