20th July 2012

Here are some photos of where we went yesterday, which was our youngsest son's birthday. We had a really good day and I hope you did too Ryan. The photo above was the first red squirrel we have seen. It was on the ground when we first saw it, and it collected a nut and went up the tree with it to eat. We were able to get lots of photos of it.

Here is Malcolm at the Basler Papiermuhle, that is the Basel Paper Mill. Here he is seen marbling a sheet of paper. This mill was interesting as it still uses the water wheel to power some of the machinery. It also had captions in English which helped. All the machinery was old, the tubs they soaked the pulp in was chipped out of a block of limestone.

Uta took us to Dornach for tea. The top photo is the view from the restaurant and the second is the restaurant as seen from the road below. I tried a local barley soup, was it good. I have taken note of the name and will try to find a recipe for it. While we were sitting here we could see the planes coming in to land at the airport. Shame we have to move along again on Sunday as it is really nice here.

 

This is Schloss Dorneck, a ruined castle we passed on the way to the restaurant. After tea we walked back down to it and had a look. The views here were just superb, you could see right over Basel and to the Swiss alps.