The choice of cold pizza, cheese bread and a custard flan was maybe not such a good idea as upon exiting town the headwind seemed to pick up 3 fold in the open fields !
A dead straight path took us through national parkland for 30 + kms giving us little scenery relief until we struck an off shoot of the Rhone canal heading down to Kemps and then into Basle.
Our entry to Basle on a cold drizzly afternoon was just a little less than spectacular as we first found our way over the Rhine into Switzerland and then struggled to find the main railway station and our hotel.
With self about to explode we asked what we thought was a local for directions and after her attempting to help we realized that she too was new to Basle
With much cursing we finally arrived at the Basle Ibis at 6.00 pm. Cold, wet & hungry.
After a warm shower (H stood under his for 20 minutes) we chased up Kiwi Ross (Peru 2012) who`d journeyed in from Auckland with his bike to spend 3 weeks with on the trail with us
Ross was kind enough to take us out to dinner for some magnificent pasta as wed yet been able to hit an ATM.
It will be a delight to finally have a day off cycling tomorrow, sleep in and suss out the cycle route of town on our next leg as we head from Basle through Switzerland on to Grenoble in France and then the magnificent Camino trail.
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