We finally moved in to our house two weeks ago (after living in a temporary apartment for the past three months) and we’re busy exploring our new neighborhood. We live up on a hill, just southeast of downtown Basel, in a nice and quiet residential neighborhood. At the bottom of the hill, just three tram stops away (or about a ten minute walk) there’s an eclectic commercial district with stores, restaurants, and a huge outdoor ice skating rink that we just discovered last weekend. I was down the hill the other day and had passed by a Thai restaurant that looked pretty good, so last night I suggested to the family that we give it a try. We haven’t eaten out since we moved, and I’ve been wanting to try out some of the local joints. On the way to the restaurant, we went down a block we hadn’t been down before, and discovered a large group of industrial buildings with a bunch of establishments – an incredible arena with eight huge rock climbing walls, a local theater (live stage), a dinner show, a circus school (not kidding), and a few bars – all mixed in with some light industrial and manufacturing businesses. On our way out on the other end of the complex, right across the street from the Thai restaurant we were planning to go to, we saw an intriguing looking place called “Blindekuh”. Now, my German isn’t very good, but the logo was an outline of a cow wearing dark glasses and I came to the conclusion that Blindekuh was “Blind Cow”. The kids said Blindekuh is what they call a game of “Hide and Seek”. Curiosity got the best of us, so we decided to check it out. It’s a restaurant where you eat in a darkened room, and you’re served by blind waiters and waitresses. Now, when I mean a “darkened room” I don’t mean that it’s just dim in there ... it is completely, absolutely, and utterly pitch black. Before we went in, we were asked to remove anything that might emit even the slightest bit of light – we had to leave our watches, cell phones, everything, in a locker (plu...
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