The Gauntlet Common Misconceptions about COVID Hold Strong as New Variant Spreads Media has the public talking about the "razor blade" COVID variant, but years of inaccurate public health messaging have taken their toll Julia DoubledayJun 05, 2025 COVID is in the...
Open House Basel May 25th
by Hava Fleming | Jun 2, 2025 | General
Open House Basel May 25th, 2025 “Open House Basel is architecture for everyone—for the curious, the enthusiastic, the skeptical, the design-loving, the tech-savvy, the newcomers, and the veterans!” Here in the Schiff we participated in the open day, and welcomed...
English Conversation Group
by Wohnen+ Basel | Jun 1, 2025 | General
Starting this Fall, practice your English with native speakers in a relaxed, informal setting. Participation is free. Learn more at our Open House in the Quartierzentrum Iselin.
How to save a life …
by Wohnen+ Basel | May 24, 2025 | General
A member recently shared this article about "How to save a life" with our community. The PDF version of the article is provided and the link to the internet article is also provided below so the videos can be viewed. Refresher emergency training is being addressed for...
Fitness in the Park
by Hava Fleming | May 1, 2025 | General
In the Park sounds really wonderful. Especially if it is in our park in late Spring. I mean, the best kind of fitness in the Park involves gentle walking with a fair amount of sitting in the sun built in, doesn’t it? Then there is what I would call acrobatics...
A Dance of Two Cranes
by Wohnen+ Basel | Mar 14, 2025 | General
Not one but two cranesResting at night timeAlone, dark, silent, stillScarcely swaying, towering By dawn a single small figure appearsThe early bird in orange finery,Then another, then another:Men in hard hats. Then up go the crane driversTo their lonely eagles’...
The Swiss don’t want to downsize
by Wohnen+ Basel | Nov 1, 2024 | General
Switzerland has one of the world’s tightest housing markets, with vacancy rates (1.15%) even lower than tightly packed New York City. City planners have long hoped that our ageing population would prompt parents would downsize after children had grown up and moved...
Sparing a thought for those less fortunate
by Wohnen+ Basel | Jun 22, 2024 | General
The W+ B Common Room served as the venue on 18 June for a presentation about a charity making a sustainable difference to the lives of underprivileged girls and women in a city suburb in Senegal, West Africa. Virtually every seat in the living room was taken up by...