Boarding the ship, and a walk around Basel

Tuesday, November 19, we boarded our ship, the Viking Sigyn, docked in Basel, Switzerland.

These long ships are long ... when standing on shore beside it, it took two photos to capture most of it:

After having lunch on the ship, we headed out for a walk around Basel.  There was actually a guided tour of Basel from the ship that afternoon, but we didn't know about it, but our own walk was pretty nice!

Here is our ship, as we crossed a bridge over to the eastern side of the river:

Looking north on the Rhine from the bridge, the Sigyn is on the left:

Houses along the eastern bank of the river:

Looking at the west bank of the river:

At the bridge where we crossed back over to the western bank, there was a park with this strange sculpture:

Next 3 were taken from the bridge.  The cathedral towers are visible in the first:

Looking south on the Rhine from the bridge:

Construction site on the eastern bank, not sure what they are building but that's a lot of cranes:

We next visited what remains on the southern end of the old town of the old wall of the city:

This is the inner side of the wall:

This is the outer side:

This is a canal that in the old days powered a paper mill:

An old church near the paper mill:

Grave stones in the yard of the church:

Streets as we started heading back towards the centre of town:

Basel has lots of old fountains in the many town squares:

Coming up next, we climb the tower at the Munster (cathedral).