Nhampton

I was there for a week a couple of years ago. It is an expensive city
but you can eat in the pubs there for pretty cheap. I also bought
sandwichs or noshed on chestnuts for lunch (it was november and the
chestnut roasters were everywhere).

It is a beautiful city. The rhine river runs through the old town.
Lovely cathedral up on the hill above the old town. Good museums. A
nice markt plaz with farmers market everyday. Lots of easy cheap
public transportation.

Have fun.


    > I will be going to Basel Switzerland in September for an event. I'm
    > wondering if anybody has ever been there and can offer any comments about
    > your trip. I heard that the city is very expensive and would like to hear
    > about some inexpensive places to eat.
    >
    > Clint

Sascha

<[email protected]> schrieb:
    > (Miss L. Toe) wrote:
    > > > > That said
    > > > > Schweiz limitations, high wages and duty on meat imports
    > > >
    > > > So that's why it is so much more expensive in the supermarket
    > > >
    > >
    > > Is Europe going meat-free ?
    > Cow-nt on it!
Yes, we won't be chicken-hearted.

Clint

Thanks everybody for your comments on Basel. One more thing I would like to
ask is about the communication there. I speak English and a little rusty
French but no German. Will I have a problem in Basel with regards to
communication?

Clint


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Miss L. Toe

"Clint" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
    > Thanks everybody for your comments on Basel. One more thing I would like
to
    > ask is about the communication there. I speak English and a little rusty
    > French but no German. Will I have a problem in Basel with regards to
    > communication?
    > Clint

No, shouldn't be a problem, but IIRC they speak more German than French, but
slow English should be fine in 95% of situations, as in most of the world.

Lennart Petersen

"Henry Moravec" <[email protected]> skrev i meddelandet
news:[email protected]...
    > Clint, I was in Basel 5 weeks ago. By using the Tourist Office
    > in-town, I tried to get a single room for one night, in town. Price =
    > 220 Euros. A single room "out in the countryside" was 150 Euros. Nice
    > city, but apparantly a little short of numbers of beds.
    > Hank
Must have been something very special.
A search for tomorrow
http://www.hrs.de/se/bahn?L=uk&KDNR=...Y=2004&lang=uk
provided 22 hotels from 64 Euro up to 120 Euro for a single.
Hilton at 234 E was the only one above.
Think there are some smaller establishments and pensiones at lower prices
than so.

Agena 2003

non-smoking restaurants in Bern, not far from Basel
http://smokefreeplaces.net/en/CH/BE/bern

Martin Bienwald

Emilia schrieb:

    > That is surprising. I thought Geneva was bigger than Basel.
    > Has this changed recently or have I had it wrong all along?

1990: 178,400 inhabitants in Basel, 171,000 in Geneva,
according to http://www.statistik.admin.ch/ch150/dfrach1.htm

... Martin

Emilia

Martin Bienwald <[email protected]> wrote in news:celnm5$iir$1
@news1.wdf.sap-ag.de:

    > Emilia schrieb:
    >
    >> That is surprising. I thought Geneva was bigger than Basel.
    >> Has this changed recently or have I had it wrong all along?
    >
    > 1990: 178,400 inhabitants in Basel, 171,000 in Geneva,
    > according to http://www.statistik.admin.ch/ch150/dfrach1.htm
    >
    > ... Martin



That's interesting. I found stats for 2002 from the same website:
GVA: 177000
Basel: 165000

Also I found stats for GVA at 185000 and Basel 186000. Well, this could
be the confusion but these numbers didn't come from the same site....

Is there nowhere we can get reliable stats??

Ultimately it doesn't really matter to me personally but my friends in
GVA are convinced they live in the second city! ;o) Maybe they'll have to
recruit another 2000 people!

Martin Bienwald

Emilia schrieb:

    > That's interesting. I found stats for 2002 from the same website:
    > GVA: 177000
    > Basel: 165000

Found about the same stats now: Geneva 175,998 - Basel 164,850.
(http://www.statistik.admin.ch/stat_c..._text_2002.pdf)
So it seems Geneva is indeed somewhat bigger.

    > Also I found stats for GVA at 185000 and Basel 186000. Well, this could
    > be the confusion but these numbers didn't come from the same site....

I may be able to explain that number for Basel, but not for Geneva:
the document mentioned above states 186,871 inhabitants for the
canton Basel-Stadt ("Basel City"), which contains not only the city
of Basel but also the towns of Riehen and Bettingen.

(The canton Genf (Geneva) has 414,259 inhabitants.)

    > Is there nowhere we can get reliable stats??

I think the Swiss Federal Statistics Office is about as reliable as we
can get.

... Martin

Jesper Lauridsen

On 2004-08-03, Martin Bienwald <[email protected]> wrote:

    > I may be able to explain that number for Basel, but not for Geneva:
    > the document mentioned above states 186,871 inhabitants for the
    > canton Basel-Stadt ("Basel City"), which contains not only the city
    > of Basel but also the towns of Riehen and Bettingen.
    > (The canton Genf (Geneva) has 414,259 inhabitants.)

But that covers a considerably (8x) larger territory than Basel-Stadt,
with several other towns. A comparison at canton level should include
Basel-Land with 265,500 inhabitants (twice the area of Geneve the Canton).
And then we aren't comparing cities anymore.

Emilia

Martin Bienwald <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:

    > Emilia schrieb:
    >
    >> That's interesting. I found stats for 2002 from the same website:
    >> GVA: 177000
    >> Basel: 165000
    >
    > Found about the same stats now: Geneva 175,998 - Basel 164,850.
    > (http://www.statistik.admin.ch/stat_c...df/badefespop_
    > text_2002.pdf) So it seems Geneva is indeed somewhat bigger.
    >
    >> Also I found stats for GVA at 185000 and Basel 186000. Well, this
    >> could be the confusion but these numbers didn't come from the same
    >> site....
    >
    > I may be able to explain that number for Basel, but not for Geneva:
    > the document mentioned above states 186,871 inhabitants for the
    > canton Basel-Stadt ("Basel City"), which contains not only the city
    > of Basel but also the towns of Riehen and Bettingen.

Aha! That's the piece I was missing! Thanks.
Now I can renew my faith in the swiss fed. stats office! ;o)