What's going on everybody this is Island Hopper TV and today we are coming to you from Switzerland
But this here is Basel, Switzerland. Basel. We're starting out here in the Old Town
One of the things I want to show you is we cross this bridge here
You'll see there's people swimming in the river. enjoying that fresh glacial melt off the Alps from one of the many rivers here in the country
One of the things you notice, see you'll see them over here, they're kind of swimming down
Lots of public transport. Switzerland is like top, definitely top three public transportation in the world
So I actually just came down here from Paris to Luxembourg and I went to Strasbourg
And then I went to, I was going to go to Colmar, but I ended up coming over here
in Scotland and Edinburgh and I've been taking trains the whole way haven't touched an airport all the way down to Switzerland
And don't really plan to go to an airport anytime soon Looks like I'm going over towards
Either go from here I go towards Spain or I go towards Italy It's kind of the route well if I go towards Italy
It depends what route but there's the longest tunnel in the world I've never actually gone through that's in
There's the route down here Walk down there I've never actually been to
That longest tunnel that would take me through like Lake Garda Turin some of those destinations
But right now I think I just need to focus on Switzerland
I mean, it's one of my favorite countries. And when you're in Switzerland, why rush it
It funny because sometimes you feel like you up against the winter
You want to see so many places, but you don't want to see it when it's winter time
So I was going to go to Zurich, but I'm really happy I came to Basel because this is actually
one of those places that I would post up and chill as like a digital nomad for a little
bit of time. It's nowhere near as expensive as Zurich. Zurich hotels versus Basel, double the price
you want to save money come to Basel you want to pay top dollar go to Zurich and
they're very similar Zurich's a bit bigger of course but it's got all of the things you could possibly want and need
But yeah, today I plan to go hopefully to Zurich and then on to Liechtenstein
I got Luxembourg. That was my first time there. That'll be my first time to Liechtenstein
Everyone was telling me, oh, Luxembourg, it's got the highest GDP in the world
And it's pretty nice. but it's not quite as nice as I had thought
They have a lot of people that just kind of hang out along the train station
get drunk and kind of create a little bit of a dangerous atmosphere
around the train station, at least in Luxembourg. You would have thought
Luxembourg would be real safe just because of what you hear about it
but maybe it's Lichtenstein that's the one that's supposed to be, like this one feels safer than Luxembourg
I haven't seen any riffraff here. I've seen it in Geneva though
Geneva's not too bad, but Geneva, what I'm saying is, you know, people like
going to the bathroom, you know, 10 in the morning right there on the side of the road
Instead of using a toilet, but they're drinking beer, throwing bottles around
France honestly deals with a lot of that. I kind of noticed that about France I like France but we got a bit of a problem with behavior Don get me wrong I
the type of guy who likes to go out and have a good time myself, so I get it, but
10 o'clock in the afternoon is not the time to have a bunch of people out
with idle hands. That's what it is. They're idle hands. They're not working
so they're drinking a lot, and that's all across France, people who just drink all day and don't work
Here in Switzerland, very calm, very nice, very good. The people here are nice, friendly, easygoing atmosphere
So the area I just walked across that bridge there is the Old Town
The area I'm walking towards not only you could call the New Town
It's actually where the hotel is, the Marriott. And look how many trains, trams they got
You guys should be making recommendations to me where you want me to go
Anytime you see the elderly out, being active, living like a young person, that's pretty good
And, uh, yeah, that's, um, something you see in Singapore a lot
It's good to be very youthful outside. I think that's what I've realized through my travels is places where people stay active in their daily life
You don't have to do like gym or anything like that. You just have to be moving your body just out and about outside
Unfortunately, in the U.S., our cities are designed for cars, not really walking
Some of the East Coast cities you can walk around and enjoy like that, but you won't
really see. Here's a Pullman. You won really see people you know doing activities unless you in like a coastal place I guess It hard to explain You have to go to Singapore
See, the reason I say this is because the places that I go where I acknowledge that there's a lot of people
I'll do research and I'll say top ten places with the oldest population
or life expectancy. And then I hear Japan, Okinawa, Singapore, Switzerland
And then I observe, I become more observant of the people around to see if there's something that they're doing or eating that could be leading to that
And a lot of it is just outdoor activity. like the food quality is a factor but it's not like the food quality is incredibly
or like a lot more better it's just the outdoor stuff being outside being active walking you see
that's the key so if you're someone who's trying to do longevity hacking
one big factor that you've got to start incorporating is going to be walking a lot
That's why I love travel is because it gets me out there walking. I think stress reduction is good, and travel does have stress related to that
But, yeah. By the way, about the Switzerland currency, it's very strong
It is the Swiss franc. So I got a lot of coins on me
From the euro. A lot of euro coins. But they won't take those here, so I'll have to find a place to put those until I go back into France or Italy
The Europeans love their coins. I don't really like coins because they fall out of my pocket when I'm sitting on the train or sitting at lunch
They just fall out of my pocket. I don't really like to carry like a handbag just to hold coins
I've got a 2 euro coin and a 1 euro coin. Anyways, this is mostly Basel
I just wanted to show you guys so you guys get an idea
They have a train station over there. And they have like two train stations here
So I think this might be one of the train stations. Not sure exactly. Anyway, see you guys on the next one
I've done Luxembourg, Strasbourg, going to Zurich. Check some of the more recent videos
You can watch those and see what's going on. I'll put a link to two of them right now and you can pick one