Further pictures of Basel

Today I was walking through Basel and took some pictures. An old debt.

Here is the first picture taken of the Lohnhof, a part of the former town wall. It now contains the Museum of Musicical Instruments .



There is the statue of Dr. Rudolf Riggenbach, also known as "Dinge-Dinge", who was a monument conservator for Basel.



Only a few minutes walk away, there is the "Consulate Kingdom of Lepmuria", which of course is no real place just the head quater of a carnival group.



It is located in the alley of spices. Pepper and Ingwer.



On the other hill of Basel are the houses of two brothers building a white and a blue house next to each other. One of the two brothers wanted to have observatory built on the top of his house, which was not allowed by the government. So instead of complying to the rule or breaking any laws, he decided to change the use of one of the chimneys to an observatory. It is the one on the right marked with the red circle.



Here a bad picture from the front.



Next to the oldest sculptures of some elephants, not very accurate,



Here is the picture of a plate inserted into the street which can be translated to:

Here begun
on March 9th 1981
between
Harald and
Gabriele
the Love
to bloom.

I know, the translation is not too good.



I marked where you can find it here:



near the cathedral of Basel, which is constant state of repair.



There was a strange festival with stalls



and some bagpipers and some public bathing, kind of strange...



Next picutres are about a red glove is nailed to a ground near my favourite restaurant.



Here is a second picture to easier find the place.