{"id":4187,"date":"2025-09-01T19:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circumnavigate.blog\/?p=4187"},"modified":"2025-09-01T19:14:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T19:14:03","slug":"20-october-2023-basel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circumnavigate.blog\/en\/20-october-2023-basel\/","title":{"rendered":"20 October 2023 \u2013 Basel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1216.8px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>Yes, I did it: I travelled around Europe, all by water, in a rigid inflatable boat, the ArgoFram! After three stages, I arrived here in Marseille, closing the circle \u2013 happy, but exhausted. R\u00e9mis recognised this (without knowing me) and brought me to my senses. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>This has brought this work of art \u2013 portraying all the important encounters at all the ports during the third stage, highlighting what connects us and placing it in a continuous context \u2013 to a successful conclusion. It was a good idea; 64 times I took out the red pentagon, listened attentively, asked questions to clarify my understanding, and wrote down what I found in brief, without judgement. The pentagon has served its purpose and can now remain folded up &#8230; I will continue to practise the basic principle of approaching people without prejudice.<\/p>\n<p>I used my mooring in the ancient, magnificent harbour here in the heart of Marseille as an oasis of calm. \u2013 How should I proceed? Should I have the ArgoFram picked up and travel back to Basel by land? Or should I continue this circumnavigation of Europe and travel via the Canal du Midi to the Bay of Biscay, around Brittany to Dover and Rotterdam, up the Rhine to Basel?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s crazy, somehow, how nonchalantly I&#8217;m thinking about a voyage at this moment, once again \u201con the outside\u201d, alone and in the rather stormy autumn &#8230; I ask myself this as someone who, just three years ago, as a nautical novice, hardly dared to venture out to sea &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here in Marseille, it&#8217;s pleasant (although the city itself seems to be completely out of control; the omnipresence of the police speaks volumes) \u2013 I visit individual neighbourhoods on foot (I&#8217;ve disposed of the clattering scooters), go swimming at the public bonsai beach, eat well, sleep a lot. And yes, I am filled with pride.<\/p>\n<p>Having the ArgoFram picked up now and simply disconnecting my project here is somehow not possible. I&#8217;ll give her and myself a little more run! \u2013 My new training consists of fetching a few cans of petrol every day in a shopping trolley from the (nearest) petrol station about two kilometres away and filling up the ArgoFram while the strong wind and bad weather outside the coast clear up.<\/p>\n<p>On 20 September, after five days, I say goodbye to R\u00e9gis and speed across to Narbonne in about four hours \u2013 I want to enter the Canal du Midi&#8230; but that&#8217;s not possible because the canal is closed here due to a lack of water. So back to the sea, another hour north to Adge, and from here into the canal. Now begins a journey that initially feels painfully slow (8 km\/h) via Carcassonne to Toulouse, where I arrive on 26 September and stay for three days because I like this city so much.<\/p>\n<p>On 29 September, I continue towards Bordeaux, where I arrive after another four leisurely days of sailing \u2013 during which I have really recovered well \u2013 and immediately continue on to Royan, where I already stopped on my first stage two years ago. The harbour master&#8217;s office remembers me, provides me with all the support I could possibly need and puts me in touch with an experienced mechanic to change the oil and filters in the engines one last time. Conclusion: I feel perfectly comfortable again and ready to tackle the tricky circumnavigation of Brittany at this time of year.<\/p>\n<p>On 5 October, I set off via Lorient, around the fast-flowing western tip of Brittany at Le Conquet to Roscoff, and on to Guernsey. \u2013 Once again, I am extremely lucky with the weather, and the ArgoFram masters the fast-flowing passages between the many rocks and lighthouses with bravura.<\/p>\n<p>After Guernsey, I continue through the English Channel to Dover and back across to the continent towards Rotterdam\/Stellendam, where I enter the Rhine via just one lock. \u2013 Now I&#8217;m heading up the Rhine (in Germany, there&#8217;s no speed limit on that river!) &#8230; In Worms, I meet Franz and Mechtild, a sailing couple I got to know two years ago on my maiden voyage in Sweden \u2013 and who invited me to visit them if I ever came to Worms! I stay for a few days, give my first travel talk at the clubhouse of the Wiking Worms sailing and motor sports club, and say a big thank you &#8230; And on 20 October, one month after my departure from Marseille, I arrive in Basel, passing the cathedral!<\/p>\n<p>Just one day later, Marko picks up the ArgoFram in Weil am Rhein. It goes back to Tallinn, I stay in Basel. 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