Basel Bad Bf

As I’m sitting in the train now until tomorrow morning 1 a.m. I have quite some time to write some stuff 🤪.

I don't know if you know this, but Basel, where I entered the train, has train stations for three nationalities. Swiss, of course, but also German and French.

The Swiss and French are in the same building on the left bank of the Rhine, the station is called Basel SBB. The German station is on the right bank and is called Basel Badischer Bshnhof. If I take the S-Bahn to my house in my valley, the Wiesental, I have to change trains. In doing so, I don't set foot on Swiss soil.

What? 😱
But the station is in Basel, and Basel is in Switzerland. 🤔
Yes, but this little piece of land on which this station stands is German territory, right in the middle of Basel. 🤓

Funny, isn't it? So I don't have to cross the border and am even in Europe, even though I'm outside of Europe✌🏽
Besides that: It was a great opportunity to grow up in a border triangle. ❤️En savoir plus