Basel; Monday, 31 August, 2015

I checked out of the hotel and then headed over to the station to pick up the train a couple of stops down the line to the station at Kaiseraugst to visit the Roman remains of Augsta Rurica.

Given it was a Monday I was quite surprised to find that the whole site, including the museum, was open to look round – though with some difficulty as an event at the weekend meant that a large number of marquees and kiosks were in the process of being dismantled.

I looked round the key parts of the site, including the temples and carefully restored theatre, before heading across to the far side of the site to visit the Amphitheatre.

The temperatures were even hotter than the previous day, and by the time I made it back from the Amphitheatre I was exhausted so I stopped off for a quick drink in a café in town before heading back to the station to pick up the train back into Basel.

I walked back to the hotel, picked up my bags, and then headed out to the beautifully air-conditioned airport for the journey home.