SwissChris55
August 17, 2024
My friend Theresa and I spent an entire week at the Hotel Teufelhof. Wait a minute: We obviously left the hotel for excursions so that I could present Theresa with the many objects from my past. She wondered - and later asked me - what had made me such a strange man. Now she has all the answers. Of course, the room Number Seven blew us away, because books, along with dogs and cats, are the best companions in life. Now it is time to leave and appreciate. Besides the love for all the wonderful details in Teufelhof, it is the many good angels who brought us food, drink, and joy. Everyone - really everyone - at Teufelhof exhibited a quality that is rather rare in professional service: passion and kindness. Now we leave Teufelhof with some melancholy, but with extremely many fond memories of a particularly devilishly beautiful hostel in Basel. As a Canadian now, I come to Basel once a year, unless there is a pandemic going on. As a former editor of the Neubadmagazin in Basel and now editor of THE LOFT IN SPACE NEWSPAPER in Newmarket, I want to gather all the information about Teufelhof, the Crooked Theater, and Café zum Teufel, including the Thommy family. The helpful people at the reception were able to fulfill my wishes with three books. I stick to this rather unknown, formerly Austrian muscle-bound man who once so aptly said: “I’ll be back.” Christian Wehrli A Swiss Storyteller in Canada