A walk in the woods

Awoke to glorious sunshine and stunning scenery. Was plenty warm in bed so was surprised to find it was about 5C in the shade even by 11 am when we set off. Spent a while exploring the small forest roads by car and had a lovely wee walk into the incredibly maze like immense spread of forest paths that run over the whole region. Had a lovely surprise encounter with the chocolate box village of Ribaeuville on emerging from the forest and couldn’t resist taking a long walk round, buying postcards and eating my first pretzel (tasty but not hooked).

We decided to camp in a surprisingly attractive and green campsite in the suburbs of Basel so as to be able to go to the Jean Tinguely Museum tomorrow. He is a kinetic sculpture artist who works with scrap and who sounds surprisingly like Edward Bulsky (sp?) of the Sharmanka Gallery, Glasgow though with a more comic outlook than the dark brooding work of the latter that reflects his life behind the Iron Curtain.
New Currency today- almost a novelty for travelling in Europe, a Swiss franc really doesn’t go far though does it? Think I’ll wait until Austria before we go food shopping again.