We’re off on another European Family Travel Adventure. This time we’re travelling from our base in Basel Switzerland to the northern reaches of Europe. First stop is the beautiful old University town of Heidelberg Germany. This a town of some 150,000 people, of which 1/4 are students! And it is home to the Germany’s oldest university, which was founded in 1386.
Catching the Flix Bus to Heidelberg
In this VLOG we travel from Basel in Switzerland to Heidelberg in Germany aboard a Flix Bus. This is the first leg of our new European Vacation, where we plan to spend 3 days in Heidelberg checking out the sights, including Heidelberg Castle.
Basel to France
The day started off well with a Uber to the Basel SBB train station. It was easy enough to find the bus stop, and sit back for a 5 hour bus trip. The bus had a toilet on board, an lasted for 5 hours. Whilst we thought the bus would go from Switzerland into Germany, we were surprised to learn that half the trip was in France.
We went to the east of the Rhine River up to Strasbourg and saw literally dozens of spectacular castles along the way. We followed a mountain range, and perched on many hilltops were grand medieval French castles, this was a real treat for us. It quickly became the theme of our trip, to find castles near the road on Google maps, then to spot them in the hills.
Arriving in Heidelberg Germany
When we arrived in Heidelberg we discovered that Uber hasn’t reached Heidelberg yet. So we caught a taxi from Heidelberg Central station to our hotel. The cost was 13 Euros for about a 10 minute drive, not bad. Once at the hotel it was time to relax. Finally in Germany!
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Germany! I would want to go there someday. I have only been to edinburgh, london, budapest,shenzhen,bangkok,paris (when i was small).
Love travelling. Thanks for this.
Nowadays uber makes it easy aight with all the technology.
Sounds like a fun trip. However, I never made my way to Germany it always fascinated me. I’m addicted to Uber when I travel.
My dream has been to spend time in Germany and visit as many castles as possible! The landscape is breathtaking! Never been outside of the US but plan to soon. This is great information!
This looks like it was a fun trip, never been but just shows me how I need to start travelling.
Germany is one of those places I would love to see. My brother went there while in the military and loved it.
This is awesome! Pictures are great but Vlogs are super cool and feel like
you are there too. I’d love to visit, sounds like you had a great time
Sounds like a fun trip. Great photos.
5 hours sounds like a long time. I would love to see all of these countries. It would be nice to take a drive to see the countryside along the way. Seeing multiple castles sound’s fun!
Very nice post. I would like to go to Germany some day. Sounds like you had a great time.
Your trip looks amazing. Traveling all over Europe is on my bucket list.
This looks like it was quite an adventure that you had. I am sure I will love to see and read more about all of your other adventures. I really do need to make it to Germany someday.
Sometimes I think that it’s so great to be able to live in one of the European countries. You get to travel to other countries in the continent easily and be able to go on your adventures in a snap. It’s a bit difficult to do that on North America.
I haven’ been to Germany yet but I would like to see those castles in person.
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