Yeah, I paid for this trip with my tax money and I find it preposterous.
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There are a lot of French words in SwissGerman, thats why you heard "Merci". Because words like this (Merci, Velo, Trottoir etc.) are used in all of Switzerland (its a wild mix).
Yeeeaahh! Finally a vid of my hood! It’s so weird seeing a yt video about the streets you walk and drive through everyday… but I’m glad you enjoyed your stay! 😊😊
@@tkautzor Not the city in a political sense, but look up Trinationaler Eurodistrict Basel for example. You can literally just walk by the Rhein and suddenly you are in France. You can cross a bridge from France and you are in Germany, where most people in the Rhein Center shopping mall will be Swiss. Look at a map, it's all very intertwined. Countless sources talk of the Basel metro area with more than half a million people. Also, Basel's public transport goes right across both borders and you don't even have to pay extra with the "U-Abo".
I live in Basel, and all I can say is congrats! You mention so many aspects and you have been to so many different places, culturally spoken, that you give people a really good and varied view of my city! No prejudices, no tunnel optics, just watching with open mind and telling us your personal experience- thx a lot 🙌🏼🩷
Agreed, I'd even say the Aareschwimmen in Bern is more renowned than the Rheinschwimmen in Basel. But the Wickelfisch is unique to Basel and well designed indeed.
@@markusstudeli2997 The famous Aareschwimmen of Bern is known for its occasional drowning incidents. So always have travel insurance so your family can afford the repatriation
As a French from Mulhouse, I absolutely love to come to Basel multiple times a year (it's litterally a 20 minutes train ride). I get to see the city all year round and it's numerus festivals and events. The start of the carnival is awesome for exemple and all of the museums were and still are captivating to me as an art student. The only downside is that is is insanly expensive espacially now that I'm not a student anymore. I'm glad you had fun there as I do when I visit!
Enjoyed your take on my beloved city a lot - thx. To put your question about the influences of the surrounding countries to a rest - it’s the other way around. Basel was the center of this region for more than 1000 years - so Basel has shaped the surroundings much more than any artificial politics or state’s boundaries where able to. That’s the beauty of this region where crossing borders is not going into a different country - it’s just a look at the border patrol with absolute surprise - what the heck you are doing here!
I've been there, and it's a beautiful city. The architecture, the natural watery forestry scenery-it's all wrapped up in a small, walkable area. 10/10 stars.
You have not plunged into Basel, until you have swum the Rhine, mastered the Leu, seen the sun set behind the Münster and exited the Rhine exhausted at a slippery slope, warmed up again and then grilled Stockbrot and Bartwurst on the buvette grill yourself, which you had in your fish bag. Best Basel adventure to be entered in the Rhine at the Tingueley museum. (The Baselers do this casualy after work. Basel is very hedonistic and art loving.)
I live on the French side and enjoy walking along the borders; it’s a wonderful place to be. It was great to see a video featuring all the places I've visited in the three countries, I really enjoyed it :)
Basel is Switzerland only! The only exception is our airport which geographically is in France but legally a part of it is considered Switzerland. There is no German part of Basel (thank god)😂 But both countries (France and Germany) are close, 10-15min drive from the city and u are there
Basel is just a swiss city. The buildings on the german and french side are different cities. (Saint-Louis in france and Weil am Rhein in Germany) They might look like the same, since they're right adjacent, but Basel ends at the border. Even the tram lines stop right before the border, and if you wanna head to france to Saint-Louis for example, you just walk over the border. You'll be able to tell when you leave the country, there's tolling boots on the roads. And the thing about swiss people saying 'thank you' in swiss german & french at the same time is a national thing. I live in central switzerland and I say 'merci' (or 'salut' as 'hi') all the time, just the same as I throw random english words in my vocabulary. Good video (I definitely have to check out that Alchemist place) but for a video sponsored by Basel I can't help and be a bit dissapointed by the apparent lack of research.
I’ve been missing vlogs by expats in Germany like Seth in Berlin and HelloErika, who haven’t been posting much lately, so seeing a new travel vlog by Hello Erika has me excited.
Basel is also famous for its Zoo, called "Zolli" by the locals, its the oldest in Switzerland and one of the oldest in the world, it holds several endangered and rare species like Okapis, Snow Leopard, indian rhino or pygmy hippo
It has also has wildly outdated enclosures like the sea-lion one, but they're slowly renovating them to be more animal friendly. They finished a really nice enclosure for the elefants a bit back, still a bit small, but they work with the space they have got in the middle of the city. Not so fun fact: The Zolli was one of the few European ones that held Africans at some point. There's still old fotographs of this. Luckily we're way past this level of ignorance and demeaning behaviour. (And omg, the pigmy hippos are so preciously cute!!)
Good timing to present Basel, as it has just been chosen to host the next ESC! I like that you uncover some hip places unknown to me as a GenX. There would have been some hotels fitting better your style, like the Nomad, for example.
Haven't finished watching the video but I'm excited. I somehow never really connected the dots that its a tri-national city despite seeing it on the map, but this seems like a really great choice for a place to live in my future. I plan on living in germany for quite some time before moving to Switzerland, and the place I want to live in Germany would be very close to Basel anyhow.
Usually the only 'bigger' city in Switzerland that gets attention is Lucerne. Most people outside of Switzerland think Grindelwald, St. Moritz and Jungfraujoch when they hear Switzerland, not realizing that the majority of swiss live in the "Lowland", from Geneva and Lausanne up to Berne and Basel to Zurich and St.Gallen. So it is lovely to see you go the lesser known route. Welcome to Switzerland, i hope you visit other cities too (Lausanne is very beautiful and often forgotten next to Geneva)
What a relaxing video! Really really nice, new subscriber here. Just couldn't help myself by being a brazilian and noticing that you put our national anthem instrumental to play hahah. Starting at 9:18
Didn‘t knew there is a botanic garden in Basel. Was living close there for a long time (in Lörrach and later Eimeldingen) and we have been in Basel very often. It’s a multi-cultural area. And if you work in Switzerland prices are not so much a problem. That video gave me great memories. Thanks. Btw, i life in Switzerland now. 😅 It is by far the best country in the world. If someone is visiting Switzerland Basel is one of the cities you should have on your list. The surrounding landscape there is nice too. And you can make trips to Germany and Alsace (France). The Rhine valley is very beautiful.
A few years back the botanical garden was in a major hubbubb and everywhere in the newspapers because they managed to make a special, tropical flower (the 'Titanwurz, no clue about the English name) bloom. Which was apparently a very big deal.
I love this city, I went last year for the first time, and I can't wait to go back. I'll be moving to my native land of Alsace and learning Alsatian, and I've been told by many Basel inhabitants that they consider baseldütch and Alsatian to be the same language :)
Im from Lucerne(Switzerland) and I didn't know that Swiss Cities do Sponsorships like that, I think that's great :D I hope you enjoyed your stay in Switzerland.
Hello from Basel. I guess the reasons why there is little German and French influence is partly because it’s too expensive to live in Switzerland. It is said you should work in Switzerland, live in France, go shopping in Germany. If you have a lower paid job that is definitely a way to save money. And then also I feel like Switzerland in general has a strong sense of own identity. And btw, Merci is just used in Swiss German everywhere in the country. Also, good video. You were in Basel at the wrong time, you were too early for ‚Herbstmesse‘ which is a large fairground in late october spread over five places in the city: Messeplatz, Barfüsserplatz, Münsterplatz, Kaserne and Petersplatz (at the University). Also too late Fasnacht in spring is very traditional.
Basel, Zurich are among top 7 richest regions in Switzerland. And Hamburg-Basel train runs a lot everyday so you can expect many German go to Basel for work.
i used to work at the border region (german side) so Basel was always literally 1 train station away, i am so used to it that i sometimes forget how special this area really is also ovomaltine is not chocolate lol, it's malt
The neighboring Alsace (France) and Baden (Germany) are part of the same cultural region, which is Allemanic. We all speak a similar German dialect when speaking our mothers tongue. This might explain why you did not feel french or german influences. If you really cross the border, you might feel a difference though.
I live in Basel and that^s it. It's fun to get drag by the river in the summer and yes this summer was awful in terms of the Rhein river levels, so no getting drag by the river this year for me.
Do not cross the river when swimming! It is not only prohibited but also a bad idea. You most probably will not make it to the other side (before the river bends) and put yourself at risk to collide with a cargo vessel that can not give you way, if they notice you at all. Stay in near the riverbank and enjoy.
There is a major misunderstanding. Basel is not trinational (maybe except for the airport and the train stations, somehow, but these special "trinational" places are missing in your video). You also did not visit what you meant to see as French or German "parts of Basel". But it is valid to say that Basel is a center of an urban agglomeration as the cities close to it in Germany and France have very close economic, cultural, and historical relationships, despite the borders. Basel and the foreign cities around it would not exist this way without each other.
When you compare Basel to other Swiss cities you should at least recognize the cultural and architectural orientation of Basel to the north into the upper rhine trench. So in cities like Frankfurt, Mainz, Mannheim and Straßburg you will find countless examples of commum evolution in the choise of building materials and architectural characteristic.
Really depends what you look at. The agglomeration or metropolitan areas can be defined to encompass Weil am Rhein and Huningue and count over half a million residents.
@@blackibexWell, Basel metro area is a real term, but yeah, politically the city itself is within Switzerland. In the video itself she says that again and again, too.
@@DankAudioStash24 0:20 "this part of the city is in Switzerland". All parts of the city are in Switzerland. 4:12 No part of the city of Basel itself is outside Switzerland. Politically and geographically, the city is entirely within Swiss borders. The title of the video claims "BASEL a city in Switzerland, Germany and France". This is plain wrong, as it says "city" not metropolitan area, agglomeration or anything like that. By the way, I live in Switzerland, close to Basel.
Great vlog and you’re so funny. Basel was hands down my least favorite visited place ever. Brought my mum for mothers day (we are not from Europe), got followed by security guards in shops, and when we asked a gentleman to take a souvenir picture in the city his girlfriend snatched the camera, gave it back to me and just said “no”. Was so weird and anticlimactic. The city sure is lovely though.
Nice I’m moving out to that area from America soon. Thanks in part to your videos. Keep it up. Also going to start making YT vids because I need a creative outlet lol. Love the humor
Crossing the Rhine River by swimming is not recommended because of the ship traffic… The yellow Rivella is with Soja serum- it’s quite not the same as milk serum. To my knowledge Rivella blue was one of the first “Diet” drinks, since the mid-1970’s…
Restaurants in Switzerland have menus in French, German, and Italian. I have no real skills in these, but I know enough words amongst these to work out what was available. When the waiter came to ask if I had a problem. My reply was to explain my problem and solution, his response was that it would be a good idea to have a menu in English. I think that would help most travellers who had different languages.
thats not true, not all cities have menus in all 3 languages. Only in cities who are very close to other language regions like Basel, but in most restaurants in the german region of Switzerland (from my experience) only have it in german.
Your hotel was not just a hotel. In fact it is a christian mission which educated and then sent european missionars (for example the parents of Hermann Hesse) to Africa, since 1820. Today it's still an evangelikal charity organisation doing development aid in lots of countries.
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Getting sponsored by an entire city
We professionals now folks😂😂
we are 😎
Yeah, I paid for this trip with my tax money and I find it preposterous.
There are a lot of French words in SwissGerman, thats why you heard "Merci". Because words like this (Merci, Velo, Trottoir etc.) are used in all of Switzerland (its a wild mix).
und 's kelhoertli!
@@annepoitrineau5650 seit das würk irgendwer? Ich kenns ih de Theorie aber has ned emal Apezeller Urgstei verwende ghört lol
@@GregIsBoring isch uralts Baaseldyytsch, hörsch also höchstens no vo e paar usem Daig.
Als deutscher hat mich das wort glacè komplett verwirrt
@@blackvicekings8632 euch verwirrt alles
Yeeeaahh! Finally a vid of my hood! It’s so weird seeing a yt video about the streets you walk and drive through everyday… but I’m glad you enjoyed your stay! 😊😊
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Its not a hood
Fr Same here
Basel is located 100% in Switzerland. Not France, nor Germany.
Yes
It just that the metropolitan region reaches over the border
Yup, that's why its airport is located across the french border.
It really depends what you mean, the metropolitan or agglomeration areas can absolutely be defined to reach across the borders to Weil am Rhein etc.
@@DankAudioStash24 Basel stops at the border, there is no place in Germany or France called Basel.
@@tkautzor Not the city in a political sense, but look up Trinationaler Eurodistrict Basel for example. You can literally just walk by the Rhein and suddenly you are in France. You can cross a bridge from France and you are in Germany, where most people in the Rhein Center shopping mall will be Swiss. Look at a map, it's all very intertwined. Countless sources talk of the Basel metro area with more than half a million people. Also, Basel's public transport goes right across both borders and you don't even have to pay extra with the "U-Abo".
Whole bunch of eurovision fans are gonna need this video next may
I live in Basel, and all I can say is congrats! You mention so many aspects and you have been to so many different places, culturally spoken, that you give people a really good and varied view of my city! No prejudices, no tunnel optics, just watching with open mind and telling us your personal experience- thx a lot 🙌🏼🩷
please give me greencard 😺 From U.S.A
i live in Basel and every week i go shopping in Germany and fishing in France
Hey, I live like next to Basel and worked there for years :) Its nice seeing my place in a Video
@02:04 FYI You can swim in the river like this in other Swiss cities like Zurich, Geneva, or Bern too.
Agreed, I'd even say the Aareschwimmen in Bern is more renowned than the Rheinschwimmen in Basel. But the Wickelfisch is unique to Basel and well designed indeed.
lucerne also in the reuss
and Schaffausen, Luzern...
@@markusstudeli2997
The famous Aareschwimmen of Bern is known for its occasional drowning incidents. So always have travel insurance so your family can afford the repatriation
As a French from Mulhouse, I absolutely love to come to Basel multiple times a year (it's litterally a 20 minutes train ride). I get to see the city all year round and it's numerus festivals and events. The start of the carnival is awesome for exemple and all of the museums were and still are captivating to me as an art student. The only downside is that is is insanly expensive espacially now that I'm not a student anymore. I'm glad you had fun there as I do when I visit!
Just started watching, but I already know it´s a banger, thank you for another video.
Enjoyed your take on my beloved city a lot - thx. To put your question about the influences of the surrounding countries to a rest - it’s the other way around. Basel was the center of this region for more than 1000 years - so Basel has shaped the surroundings much more than any artificial politics or state’s boundaries where able to. That’s the beauty of this region where crossing borders is not going into a different country - it’s just a look at the border patrol with absolute surprise - what the heck you are doing here!
I loved your hunt for the ugliest postcard and agree that the one you found was very endearing!
I've been there, and it's a beautiful city. The architecture, the natural watery forestry scenery-it's all wrapped up in a small, walkable area. 10/10 stars.
You have not plunged into Basel, until you have swum the Rhine, mastered the Leu, seen the sun set behind the Münster and exited the Rhine exhausted at a slippery slope, warmed up again and then grilled Stockbrot and Bartwurst on the buvette grill yourself, which you had in your fish bag. Best Basel adventure to be entered in the Rhine at the Tingueley museum. (The Baselers do this casualy after work. Basel is very hedonistic and art loving.)
I live on the French side and enjoy walking along the borders; it’s a wonderful place to be. It was great to see a video featuring all the places I've visited in the three countries, I really enjoyed it :)
So cool to see my city advertised and enjoyed!
Basel is Switzerland only! The only exception is our airport which geographically is in France but legally a part of it is considered Switzerland. There is no German part of Basel (thank god)😂
But both countries (France and Germany) are close, 10-15min drive from the city and u are there
Basel is just a swiss city. The buildings on the german and french side are different cities. (Saint-Louis in france and Weil am Rhein in Germany) They might look like the same, since they're right adjacent, but Basel ends at the border.
Even the tram lines stop right before the border, and if you wanna head to france to Saint-Louis for example, you just walk over the border. You'll be able to tell when you leave the country, there's tolling boots on the roads.
And the thing about swiss people saying 'thank you' in swiss german & french at the same time is a national thing. I live in central switzerland and I say 'merci' (or 'salut' as 'hi') all the time, just the same as I throw random english words in my vocabulary.
Good video (I definitely have to check out that Alchemist place) but for a video sponsored by Basel I can't help and be a bit dissapointed by the apparent lack of research.
I’ve been missing vlogs by expats in Germany like Seth in Berlin and HelloErika, who haven’t been posting much lately, so seeing a new travel vlog by Hello Erika has me excited.
Wonderful video, make me wish I could go back there now. You make such a great and spicy video host.
Your commentary is just amazing, worth watching every second
I live here in Basel and belated welcome to our city and i hope you had a great time.
@@stephaniechbakingtraveler4262 thank uu 🤗
@@helloerika you are always welcome
yay sponsored trip!! Looking forward to more travel vids :)
Nothing like independent reporting. Influencers are sure known for that.
your videos are so soothing I can't stop from watching them keep up (love from Algeria)
3:01 this toblerone is EXPENSIVE holy
yeah that cant be right?? what the hell? in my city one of those giant toblerone are like 20
I saw it yesterday in Coop supermarket 4,5 kg = 139Fr. Around 150 € 🤯 that’s crazy
Basel is also famous for its Zoo, called "Zolli" by the locals, its the oldest in Switzerland and one of the oldest in the world, it holds several endangered and rare species like Okapis, Snow Leopard, indian rhino or pygmy hippo
It has also has wildly outdated enclosures like the sea-lion one, but they're slowly renovating them to be more animal friendly. They finished a really nice enclosure for the elefants a bit back, still a bit small, but they work with the space they have got in the middle of the city.
Not so fun fact: The Zolli was one of the few European ones that held Africans at some point. There's still old fotographs of this. Luckily we're way past this level of ignorance and demeaning behaviour.
(And omg, the pigmy hippos are so preciously cute!!)
The brazilian national anthem playing in the background in the alchemist bar part lol
POIS É NÉ FIQUEI MALUCO
Mano... do nada! 😂
@@O_Necromante of course not🤣🤣
lol I have binged watched so many of this girl's videos. Love this kind of humor. Hopefully more cities sponsor her!
Good timing to present Basel, as it has just been chosen to host the next ESC! I like that you uncover some hip places unknown to me as a GenX. There would have been some hotels fitting better your style, like the Nomad, for example.
I just hope they don't take the Messe-Area as the location. My school is located like 50 meters from there and the chaos will be absurd.
@@AurirangSince it's big concerts, it will probably be at the St. Jakobshalle.
Always great videos that make me chuckle, and also make me want to visit.
"Klarrrrrr....a"
I was not expecting that. I would have choked on my drink if the timing was worse.
It's a good day when HelloErika posts a new video 🎉❤
Haven't finished watching the video but I'm excited. I somehow never really connected the dots that its a tri-national city despite seeing it on the map, but this seems like a really great choice for a place to live in my future. I plan on living in germany for quite some time before moving to Switzerland, and the place I want to live in Germany would be very close to Basel anyhow.
Very honest, funny, and cute...as always :)
Usually the only 'bigger' city in Switzerland that gets attention is Lucerne. Most people outside of Switzerland think Grindelwald, St. Moritz and Jungfraujoch when they hear Switzerland, not realizing that the majority of swiss live in the "Lowland", from Geneva and Lausanne up to Berne and Basel to Zurich and St.Gallen. So it is lovely to see you go the lesser known route. Welcome to Switzerland, i hope you visit other cities too (Lausanne is very beautiful and often forgotten next to Geneva)
What a relaxing video! Really really nice, new subscriber here. Just couldn't help myself by being a brazilian and noticing that you put our national anthem instrumental to play hahah. Starting at 9:18
Didn‘t knew there is a botanic garden in Basel. Was living close there for a long time (in Lörrach and later Eimeldingen) and we have been in Basel very often. It’s a multi-cultural area. And if you work in Switzerland prices are not so much a problem. That video gave me great memories. Thanks. Btw, i life in Switzerland now. 😅 It is by far the best country in the world. If someone is visiting Switzerland Basel is one of the cities you should have on your list. The surrounding landscape there is nice too. And you can make trips to Germany and Alsace (France). The Rhine valley is very beautiful.
A few years back the botanical garden was in a major hubbubb and everywhere in the newspapers because they managed to make a special, tropical flower (the 'Titanwurz, no clue about the English name) bloom. Which was apparently a very big deal.
I love this city, I went last year for the first time, and I can't wait to go back. I'll be moving to my native land of Alsace and learning Alsatian, and I've been told by many Basel inhabitants that they consider baseldütch and Alsatian to be the same language :)
I wouldn't say the same but we understand each other without many problems 😄
I always love watching your travelogs. Cheers.
I'm definitely coming to visit this city! Thanks!
yayyyyyyyyy, i have been waiting for your video since forever!!!!
Im from Lucerne(Switzerland) and I didn't know that Swiss Cities do Sponsorships like that, I think that's great :D I hope you enjoyed your stay in Switzerland.
@@Itimux yess, was a great time 🤗🫡
sponsored by our tax money*
@@rekkoon-hd5vo For encouraging tourism? Btw if you don't live there, it's not your taxes :)
Some Swiss influencers get paid by the most expensive hotels to stay over
yeah, enjoy paying for Stacy's city trips.
cool that you made an video about my city
Hello from Basel. I guess the reasons why there is little German and French influence is partly because it’s too expensive to live in Switzerland. It is said you should work in Switzerland, live in France, go shopping in Germany. If you have a lower paid job that is definitely a way to save money. And then also I feel like Switzerland in general has a strong sense of own identity. And btw, Merci is just used in Swiss German everywhere in the country. Also, good video. You were in Basel at the wrong time, you were too early for ‚Herbstmesse‘ which is a large fairground in late october spread over five places in the city: Messeplatz, Barfüsserplatz, Münsterplatz, Kaserne and Petersplatz (at the University). Also too late Fasnacht in spring is very traditional.
I love how the ovomaltine variations went out of control lately 🤣 Everytime, they come up with a new one I'm so glad to try out.
...Lidl is a german shop...spreading out in Switzerland... swimming in rivers...
Aare, Rhein, Limmat and many more...😊
Greetings from Slovakia, very lovely video
Hotel....naa
Gets a water bottle: this iss sickkk!! 5/5!
Basel, Zurich are among top 7 richest regions in Switzerland. And Hamburg-Basel train runs a lot everyday so you can expect many German go to Basel for work.
Erika , I truly wish for you greater wealth and success in every possible way.
I love your video
awesome video. Thank you🙏🏼💛
i used to work at the border region (german side) so Basel was always literally 1 train station away, i am so used to it that i sometimes forget how special this area really is
also ovomaltine is not chocolate lol, it's malt
The neighboring Alsace (France) and Baden (Germany) are part of the same cultural region, which is Allemanic. We all speak a similar German dialect when speaking our mothers tongue. This might explain why you did not feel french or german influences. If you really cross the border, you might feel a difference though.
No, you can also swim in the river in bern actually (and probably other places). Water in switzerland is pretty clean
4:54 that's because Strasbourg was part of Germany before WW2
Ach ja Basel. Yeah Basel is great. Greetings from Thun.
I live in Basel and that^s it. It's fun to get drag by the river in the summer and yes this summer was awful in terms of the Rhein river levels, so no getting drag by the river this year for me.
Lidl and pindakaas sponsorship next! ;) Enjoyed the video. Thanks peanut.
YOOOOO MY NAME IS BASEL
Basel it self is 100% in Switzerland. But the suburbs expands also into Germany and France.
I went to Basel for the Tattoo Parade and man, now I want to go back for the things you did
I love your videos!!!!
I see Basel, I like.
I IOVE Switzerland 🎉🎉✍️🇨🇭🛀🛌🫅🌧🌧🌧☃️☃️☃️🛫🏩🏡🥐🥖🫓🥨🥯🎂🍫🍰🍕thanks Erika new Germany stay with you 🤓😎🤓
Do not cross the river when swimming! It is not only prohibited but also a bad idea. You most probably will not make it to the other side (before the river bends) and put yourself at risk to collide with a cargo vessel that can not give you way, if they notice you at all.
Stay in near the riverbank and enjoy.
keep going. make more videos. i love your videos. maybe more vlogs. a day in the life kinda videos maybe
Love your videos Erika! (Greetings from Manchester, UK 🇬🇧)
@@JessicaDonnelly-he2kj thank uuu 🤗
Very cool video, very cool city.
Basel is 100% in Switzerland.
There is a major misunderstanding. Basel is not trinational (maybe except for the airport and the train stations, somehow, but these special "trinational" places are missing in your video). You also did not visit what you meant to see as French or German "parts of Basel". But it is valid to say that Basel is a center of an urban agglomeration as the cities close to it in Germany and France have very close economic, cultural, and historical relationships, despite the borders. Basel and the foreign cities around it would not exist this way without each other.
When you compare Basel to other Swiss cities you should at least recognize the cultural and architectural orientation of Basel to the north into the upper rhine trench. So in cities like Frankfurt, Mainz, Mannheim and Straßburg you will find countless examples of commum evolution in the choise of building materials and architectural characteristic.
Yes cities tend to be clean and safe here 😄 (Zurich a little bit less lol)
hallo Erika!!
Been waiting soooo loong
They probably sponsored her because they knew a lot of ESC people will want to know more about Basel.
nice video, at the cocktail part, you put a brazilian anthem, I'm from brazil and this suprised me kkkkkk
You can swim in the river in Zurich, and lots of other places.
Basel is near the borders of Germany and France, but it’s only in Switzerland.
Really depends what you look at. The agglomeration or metropolitan areas can be defined to encompass Weil am Rhein and Huningue and count over half a million residents.
@@DankAudioStash24 Erm... No.
@@blackibexWell, Basel metro area is a real term, but yeah, politically the city itself is within Switzerland. In the video itself she says that again and again, too.
@@DankAudioStash24 0:20 "this part of the city is in Switzerland". All parts of the city are in Switzerland.
4:12 No part of the city of Basel itself is outside Switzerland. Politically and geographically, the city is entirely within Swiss borders.
The title of the video claims "BASEL a city in Switzerland, Germany and France". This is plain wrong, as it says "city" not metropolitan area, agglomeration or anything like that.
By the way, I live in Switzerland, close to Basel.
@@blackibex Did you watch the video or just read the title?
Great vlog and you’re so funny. Basel was hands down my least favorite visited place ever. Brought my mum for mothers day (we are not from Europe), got followed by security guards in shops, and when we asked a gentleman to take a souvenir picture in the city his girlfriend snatched the camera, gave it back to me and just said “no”. Was so weird and anticlimactic. The city sure is lovely though.
Gentleman and his girlfriend must have been tourists or expats for sure ;-)
Great tour! I didn't know this city existed.
i like to call it the city of a thousand construction sites, they are everywhere and theyre multiplying
Nice I’m moving out to that area from America soon. Thanks in part to your videos. Keep it up. Also going to start making YT vids because I need a creative outlet lol. Love the humor
Awesome backpack
@@marcel6448 thank uu 😊
leonhard euler"s city
AND MERRY CHRISTMAS 🤓😎
How do you get a city to sponsor you? That seems like a dream to me (I'm a photographer, that's why hahaha)
Crossing the Rhine River by swimming is not recommended because of the ship traffic…
The yellow Rivella is with Soja serum- it’s quite not the same as milk serum. To my knowledge Rivella blue was one of the first “Diet” drinks, since the mid-1970’s…
Restaurants in Switzerland have menus in French, German, and Italian. I have no real skills in these, but I know enough words amongst these to work out what was available. When the waiter came to ask if I had a problem. My reply was to explain my problem and solution, his response was that it would be a good idea to have a menu in English. I think that would help most travellers who had different languages.
thats not true, not all cities have menus in all 3 languages. Only in cities who are very close to other language regions like Basel, but in most restaurants in the german region of Switzerland (from my experience) only have it in german.
Your hotel was not just a hotel. In fact it is a christian mission which educated and then sent european missionars (for example the parents of Hermann Hesse) to Africa, since 1820. Today it's still an evangelikal charity organisation doing development aid in lots of countries.
they run the building as a hotel though and a very nice restaurant as well
My favorite TH-camr ❤
Where can you find the best dumplings and tacos? In Basel, of course!
I like to watch her video so much
U have to visit basel in 13th may - 17 th may 2025. Cuz you can be the audience of the biggest music competition in the world 😊
I would anyway say "Switzerland, Germany and France"... 🇨🇭🇨🇭😉
Finally another video 🎉
sponsored trip travel… hold my pizza
The video was great!!!
I fly in to Basel to go to family in Freiburg, always funny flying back to the UK & being I. 4 countries in one day 🤣
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Too bad you didn't get to use the Wicklefisch. It really is fun and relaxing on a hot day when there are hundreds of people floating
As someone who lived and worked in Basel, it is not uncommon for people to "float" to work using the Rhein
yes! I ve heard that and thta s super cool! :D
To avoid high roaming costs just get an e-sim!! ;)