Well, nothing is ideal and even I was able to find something bother on Basel. This post summarizes list of things found in a month here. Only the first one I find really annoying, the others are fine, but I wanted to mention them. Smoking Like a Chimney Really a lot of people smoke here
Very Exhausting Week
This week was really very exhausting, fortunately is over and I survived. Till Wednesday it was at ease, but especially Thursday and Friday were really hard. Perfect Thursday My company scheduled social event on the Thursday’s evening for whole company. Our meeting point was in front of Basel Minster. We met there for our guide,
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Basel has population of approximately 173,000 people, which is nice, because it’s almost the same as Pilsen with population about 170,000 people. Similar is also geographic location and elevation above sea-level. So, I can compare these two cities quite objectively. Basel Stadt Area of Basel is much smaller than Pilsen – 23.91 km2 × 261.47
First Date
It’s not a date in conventional meaning. I wasn’t dating some pretty Swiss girl – my girlfriend wouldn’t be so pleased by it, but it was my first day in my new job. I rather personally checked where is the exact location of the entrance to my new company, because there was no name of
Sight-seeing of Basel’s authorities
The next day after my arrival, I needed to manage all important issues related to my stay. I went with one of Basel’s AIESEC members and she was really very helpful and everything went much easier and faster than if I would go alone – especially because I don’t speak German. Well, I can understand
Big Bang in Practice
I went to Basel several days earlier than my apartment in the center of the city was ready. It’s necessary to arrange several things before I can start working. If you want to stay some time in a cheap hotel in Basel, I can definitely recommend you Hotel Alfa. You can also find my hotel’s
Looking for a Needle in a Cosmic Haystack
I’d like to pick up where I’ve finished in previous post about looking for a particular internship. What I was imagining as fairly simple task wasn’t as easy as I hoped. Majority of offered internships were about coding in PHP. I wouldn’t say I hate PHP, but I like compiled languages with strong typing much
Tough Decision
I live in Pilsen (Czech Republic) for almost 10 years; I found here many great friends and wonderful girlfriend. I also have interesting full-time job, where I started as a temporary worker more than 7 year ago. So, I could say, I have everything I want and I need. One day, AIESEC’s advertisement came across
