From Basel I went back to Deutschland to Weil am Rhine to visit the Vitra campus and design museum. The architecture was amazing. It felt like a whole different world. The campus is set back from the rest of the city - It took 22 minutes to walk there and it was incredibly confusing. It is built in a circle with interesting buildings and functional sculptures. One of the pieces is a huge spiral slide, which was a lot of fun. You pick up a sliding carpet at the b...

When I arrived in Basel I was hungry so I went to walk around the city to find something to eat. I ended up running into a little fair, and learned that it was the first week of the Basel Autumn Fair (Basler Herbstmesse), a huge multi-site fair with food and rides that starts on the Saturday before October 30th every year, and is on for about two weeks. This will be the 546th Herbstmesse in Basel. No that’s not a typo – the first Basel Herbstmesse took pl...