basel

I visited my friends Karin and Peter in Basel. We met when our family lived in Ohio and they were in "the states" visiting Karin's family. Our children played "fairies, make belive and treasure hunt" and while we drank tea and created friendship. For several consecutive summers we continued the lovely ritual. Then our family moved and we lost contact. Fortunately, we've reconnected and had a lovely visit. Also in the photo is their cute little "Chico". The children, now all teens did not get to visit this time.

The photos are in Basel, along the Rhine. Karin took me for a ferry ride across the Rhine on a boat powered only by water. I was amazed by this no-energy form of transformation, which has been used on the river for hundreds of years. "One of Basel's four small ferry boats, which, hanging at a steel rope, are silently drawn by the current between the two banks of the river."