Best Sights To See - Basel Zoo, Best Places to Eat in Germany - Drei Könige Lörrach

Our Basel tour guide Madeleine Wamister told us about one of the Best Sights To See in Basel: the zoo! We've heard a lot about the Basel Zoo lately. Last week was no exception, as they welcomed a baby gorilla, born on May 19th. A bumper crop of baby animals now inhabits the zoo, well worth the price of admission. Come out and see the baby giraffe, goats, gorilla, storks, and more!

In our ongoing Best Places to Eat series, Sue Style took us just across the border to the Restaurant Drei König in Lörrach. It's a hotel, café/deli (ground floor) and restaurant (first floor), whose owner was nominated Best Restaurateur 2012 by Gault Millau Germany, on the market square in Lörrach. The café/deli is perfect for lunch - it’s always busy, so best to book if you’re more than just 1 or 2. Otherwise, just find a place at one of the large, bleached wood Stammtisch (communal) tables and observe the tempting arrays of top-end (mainly Italian) cold meats served on greaseproof paper, cheeses, salads and sandwiches that whirl past as you make up your mind, plus wines (Hanspeter Ziereisen, Hermann Dörflinger) and beers by the glass.

Our music theme this week was California sound from the 1960s, and we played:

The Mamas & The Papas - California Dreamin'

The Beach Boys - Surfin' USA

The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn

Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild

Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City

Scott McKenzie - San Francisco

Zager and Evans - In The Year 2525

Jan & Dean - The Little Old Lady From Pasadena

The Turtles - Happy Together

The Bobby Fuller Four - I Fought The Law

Love Affair - Everlasting Love

Sonny & Cher - I Got You Babe