Dec 10 – Flight to Basel and Mulhouse France

We were up at 3:45 to catch our 4:30 transfer to the Casablanca Airport.  The trip was uneventful, as was check in and boarding.  However, Air France changed our flight from Paris to Basel/Mulhouse and we now have an extremely short connection, so we are sweating it as to whether or not we will make our connection.  Paul spent much of yesterday trying to sort it out with Air France but they were adamant that we (and our luggage) should make the connection.  However, just in case, we both packed a change of clothes, our cold weather coats and essential toiletries in our carryon bags.

We had to change terminals at Charles De Gaulle airport and had to go through both security and passport control.  However, we made it to the gate with about 10 minutes to spare (and our luggage made it too). 

It was rather cold when we arrived at the Basel/Mulhouse airport and had been raining, but we got our wet luggage and headed out for the bus to the train station.  We had about a 10 minute wait for the train and then a 14 minute train ride to Mulhouse (pronounced muloos).  We considered taking a taxi to our hotel but after getting a map and finding our street it turned out the hotel was only about a 2 ½ block walk from the station.  Well located for us.

This evening we wandered down to find the Christmas Market.  It is small but rather magical with most of the shops in the main square in front of the church.  There was also a rather large white ferris wheel in front of the church as well.

For dinner we had a walking meal.  Hot chocolate in one of the pop-up restaurants, soup at one of the shops, and a hot cheese sandwich from another.  Very satisfying.