Jan 13, 2011 - Belfort and Besançon

written mainly by Kirianne... We stopped for a few hours in Basel train station, but didn't get to see Doro. We continued into Franche-Comté region to Belfort just for a couple of hours to see the town’s main tourist attraction: a great red sandstone lion built on the cliff just below the citadel. Luckily we were able to leave our big backpacks at the train station, thanks to the kindness of the Chef de la Gare. (You can no longer leave baggage in a locker in any train station, due to the terrorist threat, but he was sympathetic to a...