Switzerland for lunch? Why not?

Switzerland has always been on my travel to do list and with our German Rail Passes we can get into Basil Switzerland for free. Naturally, we had to take up the opprounity; however, we only had a few days left in the month to do so. Basil is just under 3 hours from Heidelberg with the ICE train, so we knew we could use our final pass and make the trip in a day. Matt, Lauren and I had to be back for class at 5 so we decided why not just hit up Switzerland for lunch? Gotta love the life of a study abroad student!

Wonderful idea...however, we never got lunch.

Thursday October, 20th: We arrived in Switzerland around ten and went off to explore town. Basil is a really cute little city, but there was not a whole lot to see. Fall was in full force so we got to see all the beautiful trees, but aside from that and a few churches, we were ready for lunch pretty quick. Sadly, we didn't put much research in Basil and didn't even think about currency. Should have figured Switzerland would be different and not apart of the European Union, but no...we didn't. Swiss Franks is the only currency accepted so instead of enjoying a nice meal, we walked around the city starving for a few hours. We were not about to lose money just to exchange a few Euros for Franks...it was not worth it.

After a few hours, we decided just to head home. Although the country was beautiful and we had a fun little day trip, I really would not recommend Basil to other travelers unless you have alot of time. I wish I could have seen Zurich, but we couldn't use our pass to get that far.

Overall, a wonderful way to spend a Thursday.