Yeah, I paid for this trip with my tax money and I find it preposterous.
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There are a lot of French words in SwissGerman, thats why you heard "Merci". Because words like this (Merci, Velo, Trottoir etc.) are used in all of Switzerland (its a wild mix).
Yeeeaahh! Finally a vid of my hood! It’s so weird seeing a yt video about the streets you walk and drive through everyday… but I’m glad you enjoyed your stay! 😊😊
Agreed, I'd even say the Aareschwimmen in Bern is more renowned than the Rheinschwimmen in Basel. But the Wickelfisch is unique to Basel and well designed indeed.
@@markusstudeli2997 The famous Aareschwimmen of Bern is known for its occasional drowning incidents. So always have travel insurance so your family can afford the repatriation
I live in Basel, and all I can say is congrats! You mention so many aspects and you have been to so many different places, culturally spoken, that you give people a really good and varied view of my city! No prejudices, no tunnel optics, just watching with open mind and telling us your personal experience- thx a lot 🙌🏼🩷
Im from Lucerne(Switzerland) and I didn't know that Swiss Cities do Sponsorships like that, I think that's great :D I hope you enjoyed your stay in Switzerland.
Basel is also famous for its Zoo, called "Zolli" by the locals, its the oldest in Switzerland and one of the oldest in the world, it holds several endangered and rare species like Okapis, Snow Leopard, indian rhino or pygmy hippo
It has also has wildly outdated enclosures like the sea-lion one, but they're slowly renovating them to be more animal friendly. They finished a really nice enclosure for the elefants a bit back, still a bit small, but they work with the space they have got in the middle of the city. Not so fun fact: The Zolli was one of the few European ones that held Africans at some point. There's still old fotographs of this. Luckily we're way past this level of ignorance and demeaning behaviour. (And omg, the pigmy hippos are so preciously cute!!)
I've been there, and it's a beautiful city. The architecture, the natural watery forestry scenery-it's all wrapped up in a small, walkable area. 10/10 stars.
I live on the French side and enjoy walking along the borders; it’s a wonderful place to be. It was great to see a video featuring all the places I've visited in the three countries, I really enjoyed it :)
I’ve been missing vlogs by expats in Germany like Seth in Berlin and HelloErika, who haven’t been posting much lately, so seeing a new travel vlog by Hello Erika has me excited.
Enjoyed your take on my beloved city a lot - thx. To put your question about the influences of the surrounding countries to a rest - it’s the other way around. Basel was the center of this region for more than 1000 years - so Basel has shaped the surroundings much more than any artificial politics or state’s boundaries where able to. That’s the beauty of this region where crossing borders is not going into a different country - it’s just a look at the border patrol with absolute surprise - what the heck you are doing here!
Usually the only 'bigger' city in Switzerland that gets attention is Lucerne. Most people outside of Switzerland think Grindelwald, St. Moritz and Jungfraujoch when they hear Switzerland, not realizing that the majority of swiss live in the "Lowland", from Geneva and Lausanne up to Berne and Basel to Zurich and St.Gallen. So it is lovely to see you go the lesser known route. Welcome to Switzerland, i hope you visit other cities too (Lausanne is very beautiful and often forgotten next to Geneva)
Didn‘t knew there is a botanic garden in Basel. Was living close there for a long time (in Lörrach and later Eimeldingen) and we have been in Basel very often. It’s a multi-cultural area. And if you work in Switzerland prices are not so much a problem. That video gave me great memories. Thanks. Btw, i life in Switzerland now. 😅 It is by far the best country in the world. If someone is visiting Switzerland Basel is one of the cities you should have on your list. The surrounding landscape there is nice too. And you can make trips to Germany and Alsace (France). The Rhine valley is very beautiful.
A few years back the botanical garden was in a major hubbubb and everywhere in the newspapers because they managed to make a special, tropical flower (the 'Titanwurz, no clue about the English name) bloom. Which was apparently a very big deal.
Haven't finished watching the video but I'm excited. I somehow never really connected the dots that its a tri-national city despite seeing it on the map, but this seems like a really great choice for a place to live in my future. I plan on living in germany for quite some time before moving to Switzerland, and the place I want to live in Germany would be very close to Basel anyhow.
Good timing to present Basel, as it has just been chosen to host the next ESC! I like that you uncover some hip places unknown to me as a GenX. There would have been some hotels fitting better your style, like the Nomad, for example.
I love this city, I went last year for the first time, and I can't wait to go back. I'll be moving to my native land of Alsace and learning Alsatian, and I've been told by many Basel inhabitants that they consider baseldütch and Alsatian to be the same language :)
When you compare Basel to other Swiss cities you should at least recognize the cultural and architectural orientation of Basel to the north into the upper rhine trench. So in cities like Frankfurt, Mainz, Mannheim and Straßburg you will find countless examples of commum evolution in the choise of building materials and architectural characteristic.
Basel, Zurich are among top 7 richest regions in Switzerland. And Hamburg-Basel train runs a lot everyday so you can expect many German go to Basel for work.
What a relaxing video! Really really nice, new subscriber here. Just couldn't help myself by being a brazilian and noticing that you put our national anthem instrumental to play hahah. Starting at 9:18
Basel is Switzerland only! The only exception is our airport which geographically is in France but legally a part of it is considered Switzerland. There is no German part of Basel (thank god)😂 But both countries (France and Germany) are close, 10-15min drive from the city and u are there
Great vlog and you’re so funny. Basel was hands down my least favorite visited place ever. Brought my mum for mothers day (we are not from Europe), got followed by security guards in shops, and when we asked a gentleman to take a souvenir picture in the city his girlfriend snatched the camera, gave it back to me and just said “no”. Was so weird and anticlimactic. The city sure is lovely though.
I live in Basel and that^s it. It's fun to get drag by the river in the summer and yes this summer was awful in terms of the Rhein river levels, so no getting drag by the river this year for me.
Your hotel was not just a hotel. In fact it is a christian mission which educated and then sent european missionars (for example the parents of Hermann Hesse) to Africa, since 1820. Today it's still an evangelikal charity organisation doing development aid in lots of countries.
Nice I’m moving out to that area from America soon. Thanks in part to your videos. Keep it up. Also going to start making YT vids because I need a creative outlet lol. Love the humor
Crossing the Rhine River by swimming is not recommended because of the ship traffic… The yellow Rivella is with Soja serum- it’s quite not the same as milk serum. To my knowledge Rivella blue was one of the first “Diet” drinks, since the mid-1970’s…
Restaurants in Switzerland have menus in French, German, and Italian. I have no real skills in these, but I know enough words amongst these to work out what was available. When the waiter came to ask if I had a problem. My reply was to explain my problem and solution, his response was that it would be a good idea to have a menu in English. I think that would help most travellers who had different languages.
thats not true, not all cities have menus in all 3 languages. Only in cities who are very close to other language regions like Basel, but in most restaurants in the german region of Switzerland (from my experience) only have it in german.
I always had this question about Basel. How does Basel Airport work? I mean that the airport of the city lies in France. But the citylimits are only on the swiss side. But it extends in France and Germany. How does it financially work there. Do you still have to purchase in Swiss prices or french prices. Is the airport only speaking french language because it in France or does it also do German, but its also not in Germany but the city extends in Germany. This city confuses me so much.
I'm no expert, but I've flown a few times from there. The airport is separated in a French part and Swiss part. I've never seen the French part, so I don't know how it is over there. There's one road leading from Switzerland to the Swiss part. The prices in the shops are in Swiss Francs, signs are in German (I think French and English as well) and I think announcements too. The staff is mostly French though, which can be a bit annoying because they often don't speak English. Other than that, it doesn't really feel like you're outside of Switzerland. When you arrive, there's two exits/customs, so you have to pick the right one or you end up in the wrong country.
Swiss here (from basel) I'm confused, you "obviousely" went to a lidl? You have to go to a coop or migros when in switzerland ;) Coop has the headquarters in basel and migros in zürich, so coop would have been the most basel supermarket. And yes, I work for coop :D But that has nothing to do with this haha
What would there be a lot of French influence? It is not France, it is not Germany. In fact, what you see as a three national city is 3 cities having decided to ally as they are next to each other. The Swiss are very concerned about the well-being of the people. There are a lot of socialists in local and federal government. We use foreign words: merci, ciao, as you do: pardon, garage.
Getting sponsored by an entire city
We professionals now folks😂😂
we are 😎
Yeah, I paid for this trip with my tax money and I find it preposterous.
There are a lot of French words in SwissGerman, thats why you heard "Merci". Because words like this (Merci, Velo, Trottoir etc.) are used in all of Switzerland (its a wild mix).
und 's kelhoertli!
@@annepoitrineau5650 seit das würk irgendwer? Ich kenns ih de Theorie aber has ned emal Apezeller Urgstei verwende ghört lol
@@GregIsBoring isch uralts Baaseldyytsch, hörsch also höchstens no vo e paar usem Daig.
Yeeeaahh! Finally a vid of my hood! It’s so weird seeing a yt video about the streets you walk and drive through everyday… but I’m glad you enjoyed your stay! 😊😊
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Its not a hood
Basel is located 100% in Switzerland. Not France, nor Germany.
Yes
It just that the metropolitan region reaches over the border
Yup, that's why its airport is located across the french border.
@02:04 FYI You can swim in the river like this in other Swiss cities like Zurich, Geneva, or Bern too.
Agreed, I'd even say the Aareschwimmen in Bern is more renowned than the Rheinschwimmen in Basel. But the Wickelfisch is unique to Basel and well designed indeed.
lucerne also in the reuss
and Schaffausen, Luzern...
@@markusstudeli2997
The famous Aareschwimmen of Bern is known for its occasional drowning incidents. So always have travel insurance so your family can afford the repatriation
I live in Basel, and all I can say is congrats! You mention so many aspects and you have been to so many different places, culturally spoken, that you give people a really good and varied view of my city! No prejudices, no tunnel optics, just watching with open mind and telling us your personal experience- thx a lot 🙌🏼🩷
please give me greencard 😺 From U.S.A
Im from Lucerne(Switzerland) and I didn't know that Swiss Cities do Sponsorships like that, I think that's great :D I hope you enjoyed your stay in Switzerland.
@@Itimux yess, was a great time 🤗🫡
sponsored by our tax money*
@@rekkoon-hd5vo For encouraging tourism? Btw if you don't live there, it's not your taxes :)
Some Swiss influencers get paid by the most expensive hotels to stay over
yeah, enjoy paying for Stacy's city trips.
Basel is also famous for its Zoo, called "Zolli" by the locals, its the oldest in Switzerland and one of the oldest in the world, it holds several endangered and rare species like Okapis, Snow Leopard, indian rhino or pygmy hippo
It has also has wildly outdated enclosures like the sea-lion one, but they're slowly renovating them to be more animal friendly. They finished a really nice enclosure for the elefants a bit back, still a bit small, but they work with the space they have got in the middle of the city.
Not so fun fact: The Zolli was one of the few European ones that held Africans at some point. There's still old fotographs of this. Luckily we're way past this level of ignorance and demeaning behaviour.
(And omg, the pigmy hippos are so preciously cute!!)
yay sponsored trip!! Looking forward to more travel vids :)
Nothing like independent reporting. Influencers are sure known for that.
Just started watching, but I already know it´s a banger, thank you for another video.
I've been there, and it's a beautiful city. The architecture, the natural watery forestry scenery-it's all wrapped up in a small, walkable area. 10/10 stars.
I live on the French side and enjoy walking along the borders; it’s a wonderful place to be. It was great to see a video featuring all the places I've visited in the three countries, I really enjoyed it :)
Your commentary is just amazing, worth watching every second
Basel is near the borders of Germany and France, but it’s only in Switzerland.
I’ve been missing vlogs by expats in Germany like Seth in Berlin and HelloErika, who haven’t been posting much lately, so seeing a new travel vlog by Hello Erika has me excited.
Wonderful video, make me wish I could go back there now. You make such a great and spicy video host.
Enjoyed your take on my beloved city a lot - thx. To put your question about the influences of the surrounding countries to a rest - it’s the other way around. Basel was the center of this region for more than 1000 years - so Basel has shaped the surroundings much more than any artificial politics or state’s boundaries where able to. That’s the beauty of this region where crossing borders is not going into a different country - it’s just a look at the border patrol with absolute surprise - what the heck you are doing here!
3:01 this toblerone is EXPENSIVE holy
yeah that cant be right?? what the hell? in my city one of those giant toblerone are like 20
I saw it yesterday in Coop supermarket 4,5 kg = 139Fr. Around 150 € 🤯 that’s crazy
cool that you made an video about my city
Very honest, funny, and cute...as always :)
The brazilian national anthem playing in the background in the alchemist bar part lol
POIS É NÉ FIQUEI MALUCO
É um dos hinos mais bonitos do mundo! Não digo isso por ser brasileiro haha
Mano... do nada! 😂
Usually the only 'bigger' city in Switzerland that gets attention is Lucerne. Most people outside of Switzerland think Grindelwald, St. Moritz and Jungfraujoch when they hear Switzerland, not realizing that the majority of swiss live in the "Lowland", from Geneva and Lausanne up to Berne and Basel to Zurich and St.Gallen. So it is lovely to see you go the lesser known route. Welcome to Switzerland, i hope you visit other cities too (Lausanne is very beautiful and often forgotten next to Geneva)
"Klarrrrrr....a"
I was not expecting that. I would have choked on my drink if the timing was worse.
yayyyyyyyyy, i have been waiting for your video since forever!!!!
Always great videos that make me chuckle, and also make me want to visit.
Didn‘t knew there is a botanic garden in Basel. Was living close there for a long time (in Lörrach and later Eimeldingen) and we have been in Basel very often. It’s a multi-cultural area. And if you work in Switzerland prices are not so much a problem. That video gave me great memories. Thanks. Btw, i life in Switzerland now. 😅 It is by far the best country in the world. If someone is visiting Switzerland Basel is one of the cities you should have on your list. The surrounding landscape there is nice too. And you can make trips to Germany and Alsace (France). The Rhine valley is very beautiful.
A few years back the botanical garden was in a major hubbubb and everywhere in the newspapers because they managed to make a special, tropical flower (the 'Titanwurz, no clue about the English name) bloom. Which was apparently a very big deal.
I live here in Basel and belated welcome to our city and i hope you had a great time.
@@stephaniechbakingtraveler4262 thank uu 🤗
@@helloerika you are always welcome
Haven't finished watching the video but I'm excited. I somehow never really connected the dots that its a tri-national city despite seeing it on the map, but this seems like a really great choice for a place to live in my future. I plan on living in germany for quite some time before moving to Switzerland, and the place I want to live in Germany would be very close to Basel anyhow.
your videos are so soothing I can't stop from watching them keep up (love from Algeria)
lol I have binged watched so many of this girl's videos. Love this kind of humor. Hopefully more cities sponsor her!
Hotel....naa
Gets a water bottle: this iss sickkk!! 5/5!
Good timing to present Basel, as it has just been chosen to host the next ESC! I like that you uncover some hip places unknown to me as a GenX. There would have been some hotels fitting better your style, like the Nomad, for example.
I just hope they don't take the Messe-Area as the location. My school is located like 50 meters from there and the chaos will be absurd.
I love how the ovomaltine variations went out of control lately 🤣 Everytime, they come up with a new one I'm so glad to try out.
I love this city, I went last year for the first time, and I can't wait to go back. I'll be moving to my native land of Alsace and learning Alsatian, and I've been told by many Basel inhabitants that they consider baseldütch and Alsatian to be the same language :)
I wouldn't say the same but we understand each other without many problems 😄
Very cool video, very cool city.
I love your videos!!!!
When you compare Basel to other Swiss cities you should at least recognize the cultural and architectural orientation of Basel to the north into the upper rhine trench. So in cities like Frankfurt, Mainz, Mannheim and Straßburg you will find countless examples of commum evolution in the choise of building materials and architectural characteristic.
It's a good day when HelloErika posts a new video 🎉❤
Ach ja Basel. Yeah Basel is great. Greetings from Thun.
Erika , I truly wish for you greater wealth and success in every possible way.
I love your video
Basel, Zurich are among top 7 richest regions in Switzerland. And Hamburg-Basel train runs a lot everyday so you can expect many German go to Basel for work.
i live in Basel and every week i go shopping in Germany and fishing in France
I'm definitely coming to visit this city! Thanks!
Greetings from Slovakia, very lovely video
Awesome backpack
@@marcel6448 thank uu 😊
awesome video. Thank you🙏🏼💛
What a relaxing video! Really really nice, new subscriber here. Just couldn't help myself by being a brazilian and noticing that you put our national anthem instrumental to play hahah. Starting at 9:18
hallo Erika!!
Been waiting soooo loong
keep going. make more videos. i love your videos. maybe more vlogs. a day in the life kinda videos maybe
Lidl and pindakaas sponsorship next! ;) Enjoyed the video. Thanks peanut.
I always love watching your travelogs. Cheers.
awesome!
nice video, at the cocktail part, you put a brazilian anthem, I'm from brazil and this suprised me kkkkkk
You can swim in the river in Zurich, and lots of other places.
No, you can also swim in the river in bern actually (and probably other places). Water in switzerland is pretty clean
Basel is Switzerland only! The only exception is our airport which geographically is in France but legally a part of it is considered Switzerland. There is no German part of Basel (thank god)😂
But both countries (France and Germany) are close, 10-15min drive from the city and u are there
...Lidl is a german shop...spreading out in Switzerland... swimming in rivers...
Aare, Rhein, Limmat and many more...😊
Great vlog and you’re so funny. Basel was hands down my least favorite visited place ever. Brought my mum for mothers day (we are not from Europe), got followed by security guards in shops, and when we asked a gentleman to take a souvenir picture in the city his girlfriend snatched the camera, gave it back to me and just said “no”. Was so weird and anticlimactic. The city sure is lovely though.
Gentleman and his girlfriend must have been tourists or expats for sure ;-)
I live in Basel and that^s it. It's fun to get drag by the river in the summer and yes this summer was awful in terms of the Rhein river levels, so no getting drag by the river this year for me.
Basel is 100% in Switzerland.
Love your videos Erika! (Greetings from Manchester, UK 🇬🇧)
@@JessicaDonnelly-he2kj thank uuu 🤗
Yes cities tend to be clean and safe here 😄 (Zurich a little bit less lol)
AND MERRY CHRISTMAS 🤓😎
The video was great!!!
They probably sponsored her because they knew a lot of ESC people will want to know more about Basel.
That really is an ugly post card, it makes your eyes kind of hurt to look at, they are not sure what to focus on.
I went to Basel for the Tattoo Parade and man, now I want to go back for the things you did
leonhard euler"s city
How do you get a city to sponsor you? That seems like a dream to me (I'm a photographer, that's why hahaha)
I would anyway say "Switzerland, Germany and France"... 🇨🇭🇨🇭😉
Great tour! I didn't know this city existed.
Finally another video 🎉
My favorite UA-camr ❤
6:30 fun fact, Tom Scott did a video about those ferries a couple of years back -> ua-cam.com/video/b6utGZQ9Sks/v-deo.html
@@elgrazo82 i didnt know :D that is so interesting!
Hi Erika! I can't wait to watch your stream with max yoko
@@Zorox435 hello! Yes me too :D
Your hotel was not just a hotel. In fact it is a christian mission which educated and then sent european missionars (for example the parents of Hermann Hesse) to Africa, since 1820. Today it's still an evangelikal charity organisation doing development aid in lots of countries.
they run the building as a hotel though and a very nice restaurant as well
I'd say any fountain is a bathing fountain if you're brave enough
Nice I’m moving out to that area from America soon. Thanks in part to your videos. Keep it up. Also going to start making YT vids because I need a creative outlet lol. Love the humor
Crossing the Rhine River by swimming is not recommended because of the ship traffic…
The yellow Rivella is with Soja serum- it’s quite not the same as milk serum. To my knowledge Rivella blue was one of the first “Diet” drinks, since the mid-1970’s…
U have to visit basel in 13th may - 17 th may 2025. Cuz you can be the audience of the biggest music competition in the world 😊
As someone who lived and worked in Basel, it is not uncommon for people to "float" to work using the Rhein
yes! I ve heard that and thta s super cool! :D
I IOVE Switzerland 🎉🎉✍️🇨🇭🛀🛌🫅🌧🌧🌧☃️☃️☃️🛫🏩🏡🥐🥖🫓🥨🥯🎂🍫🍰🍕thanks Erika new Germany stay with you 🤓😎🤓
9:59 Why is the brazilian national anthem being used as background music? LOL
For those wondering it is more noticable at 10:35
Where can you find the best dumplings and tacos? In Basel, of course!
I fly in to Basel to go to family in Freiburg, always funny flying back to the UK & being I. 4 countries in one day 🤣
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I like to watch her video so much
Restaurants in Switzerland have menus in French, German, and Italian. I have no real skills in these, but I know enough words amongst these to work out what was available. When the waiter came to ask if I had a problem. My reply was to explain my problem and solution, his response was that it would be a good idea to have a menu in English. I think that would help most travellers who had different languages.
thats not true, not all cities have menus in all 3 languages. Only in cities who are very close to other language regions like Basel, but in most restaurants in the german region of Switzerland (from my experience) only have it in german.
Too bad you didn't get to use the Wicklefisch. It really is fun and relaxing on a hot day when there are hundreds of people floating
You can swim in every river in Switzerland and in every lake. our water is highly controlled and protected.
basel represent
The Brazilian anthem was playing while they were inside Alchemie
To avoid high roaming costs just get an e-sim!! ;)
I always had this question about Basel.
How does Basel Airport work? I mean that the airport of the city lies in France. But the citylimits are only on the swiss side. But it extends in France and Germany. How does it financially work there. Do you still have to purchase in Swiss prices or french prices. Is the airport only speaking french language because it in France or does it also do German, but its also not in Germany but the city extends in Germany.
This city confuses me so much.
I'm no expert, but I've flown a few times from there. The airport is separated in a French part and Swiss part. I've never seen the French part, so I don't know how it is over there. There's one road leading from Switzerland to the Swiss part. The prices in the shops are in Swiss Francs, signs are in German (I think French and English as well) and I think announcements too. The staff is mostly French though, which can be a bit annoying because they often don't speak English. Other than that, it doesn't really feel like you're outside of Switzerland.
When you arrive, there's two exits/customs, so you have to pick the right one or you end up in the wrong country.
@@AmarthwenNarmacil I think the shops and restaurants accept Euros as well.
it's a small airport. Very nice, no long queues.
@@fiedelmina Probably, I never really payed attention to that. But I'm pretty convinced they don't accept Swiss Francs in the French part.
Great video! Will you be making a video about living i Switzerland? I want to live and work in the beutiful Schweiz :))
Hey I live there 🎉
I found Basel a bit underwhelming. Although swimming in the Rhine was really a great experience:)
Swiss here (from basel)
I'm confused, you "obviousely" went to a lidl? You have to go to a coop or migros when in switzerland ;) Coop has the headquarters in basel and migros in zürich, so coop would have been the most basel supermarket.
And yes, I work for coop :D But that has nothing to do with this haha
I recommend buying a gimbal for your camera it will make the quality better and filming easier
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What would there be a lot of French influence? It is not France, it is not Germany. In fact, what you see as a three national city is 3 cities having decided to ally as they are next to each other. The Swiss are very concerned about the well-being of the people. There are a lot of socialists in local and federal government. We use foreign words: merci, ciao, as you do: pardon, garage.
Welcome to my country 😃