Bathing in Basel | The Arbuturian
Switzerland might not be considered one of the crazier countries in the world, nor Basel one of the crazier cities in Switzerland, but there can surely be few places where the sight of a naked man walking down a side street raises so few eyebrows. Or a woman doing the same in a dripping bikini. Or a man, for that matter, in damp swimming trunks. Where have they been? Where are they going? What are they doing? And why do they look so serene and content? The answer's very simple; the Rhine cuts right through the centre of the city and its population uses the river as a source of relaxation,...