Day 2 - Speyer

A morning visit to Speyer Cathedral - the pattern was set - but each cathedral had its own special something. This one was huge but simple and monolithic.

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Rhine River Cruise #1 Basel to Speyer

May 23rd 2011
Now in San Francisco, so a little behind - takes about 2 hours to publish one of these blogs, even after selecting the photos, and we are sight seeing, furiously. Only a week to go. The cruise started unpredictably - river low due to lack of rain - found out on day of embarkation that boat was NOT at Basel, but downstream at Strasbourg - we had tickets so still caught train to Basel, then waited ... read more

Europe » Switzerland » North-West » Basel

The Swiss Confederation was founded in 1291 as a defensive alliance among three cantons. In succeeding years, other localities joined the original three. The Swiss Confederation secured its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. Switzerland... ... read more

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