Before we traveled to Morocco, we spent a few days in Germany with my dad to celebrate his 83rd birthday. He lives in our family’s ancestral region of Baden in the very south-west of Germany. The region includes the Black Forest mountains and the Lower Rhine valley.
The view of the Rhine valley from the castle in the Black Forest town of Badenweiler with the Baden flag proudly displayed. In the distance, the Vosges mountains in Alsace are clearly visible.
This was the first time we had taken the new non-stop Lufthansa connection between RDU and FRA, and it worked out very nicely for us. The flight arrives very early in the morning in Frankfurt, so immigration is not as backed up as later in the day.
Read more: GermanyOnce we got our baggage, we walked to the train station to catch an early train to Freiburg, where my dad picked us up. We spent 5 days in the area, going on day trips into the Black Forest and to Freiburg. On Sept. 1, my dad took us to the Basel/Mulhouse airport (via France) where we took our Air Arabia flight to Casablanca. On the return trip, we exited the airport to Basel Switzerland and spent the day there, before hopping on the train back to Frankfurt to catch the flight back to RDU the next morning.
Below are some of the photos we took on our day trips in Germany and that afternoon in Basel.
The Black Forest, Badenweiler, Müllheim
Freiburg im Breisgau
One Afternoon in Basel, Switzerland
That’s it. Let’s go to Morocco!
