Day 4: Basel, Switzerland

Hello, little princesses! Today Monkey and I took an early morning flight 
from London to Basel, Switzerland.  Do you know where Switzerland is?
It's in the middle of Europe squeezed between four European countries.
Can you name them all?  Here's a map for you to look:

The answers are:
Germany to the Northeast, 
France to the north and southwest
Austria to the east
and finally, Italy to the south

Try to find Basel on the map.  Basel is a beautiful city with cobble-stone streets and cute cottages. The city has the Rhine River running through it.

cottages of Basel

The Rhine River

As part of the activities for work, we split up into teams and had a scavenger hunt that took us to the many sights of Basel.  One historic thing I learned about Basel was that there used to be a strong rivalry between the Grossbasel (Great Basel) and Kleinbasel (Little Basel) part of the city.  Neither side liked the other so they used to stick their tongues out at each other!  There's even a statue sticking out its tongue at the opposite side of the city!

Can you tell that the statue moves? He sticks out his tongue 17 times per minute!

Next part of the hunt involved solving a riddle by looking at the German words below:

Clue contained here

Bella: Using the German picture above, fill in the missing letters below in the yellow spaces to spell out the location of your next prize. Hint: to find the missing letters, first find the row number, then the word number in that row, and then the letter in that word (ask dad for help if needed):

Maddie: Maddie your clue is to find the letters under the couch cushion.

Good luck!

Love,

Mommy xoxo