Dining with the horses

On Friday night, our landlord took us out to dinner. She is a wonderful woman who owns the house we live in, and lives upstairs from us. She took us to one of her favorite places, the Schlosshof Dornach, and it's now one of our favorite places too. It was a beautiful, albeit hot, night so we were able to eat outside on the terrace. One of the many things I love about living in Basel is that you can drive just 10 minutes out of the city and you feel like you are in the middle of the country. The restaurant is atop quite a high hill overlooking Basel and other surrounding towns, just next to some old castle ruins. (Hence the name-- Schloss is a castle) It was a perfect night to eat dinner outside, to enjoy some good conversation, a refreshing Swiss white wine, and some food vom Grill (it must be grill season in Basel, because I'm constantly seeing signs saying "Grill Zeit!"). As we were eating our dessert, out came the horses. The restaurant is located just next to a farm, and apparently they have horses. The 5 of them frolicked in the field that was adjacent to our terrace until it was dark. What a sight! I'm not sure you can see them because this picture is so dark, but I'll post it nonetheless.





As an added bonus, we had a beautiful sunset. Sunset pictures are always good.