Basel post, from Oakland.

I finally dumped photos from my digital camera onto my computer today, and found some delightful things from my last night in Basel. 

This is my Chard.  I cut it, finally, and made it into this:

and it was so delicious.

After dinner, Maria and I went down to the Rhine to drink prosecco and eat these little strawberry tarts she had brought us for dessert.  It wasn't as warm as it had been, by which I mean I wasn't tempted to go swimming, but we were out in shirt sleeves until 11.  This is particularly sweet-sounding now that I'm in the Bay Area and freezing by 6 PM.

Dreirosenbrucke in the background. This is in the NW corner of the city, close to Germany/France.