Hi all, my name is Ramiro and I'm just arriving in Basel from Mexico with my family of 4 (my wife and two children 8 and 6). Hopefully we can meet new friends on this forum, we'll need some company in this adventure.
Happy new year!

Welcome to the Forum.
Hope all goes smoothly with the settling in. I love Basel and hope yo'll be happy there too.

Welcome to Basel Ramiro. There's a cluster of Mexicans here in Basel and a big bunch of Spaniards and Latinos, sometimes we hang out. Send me a PM if you want to meet some day. I'm sure you will like it here.

You may want to check out the events from AMEX Basilea.

We have some board gamers around as well as the usual collection of social drinking events, I also "run" the forum wall climbers (there si a good gym in Gundeli) and there are keen runners as well.

Are you referring to Fitness Plus?
It's a bit pricey though... ~1500CHF for a one year membership, but they'll break that down into 3 payments for you.

Welcome to Basel, are you a Chilango autentico by any chance?
Speaking of which. Has anybody tried out that Taco-Shack near Kinderspital?
Memo to me: "must try taco`s at Taco-shack"

Nope Kletterhalle 7, also around 1200 per year but par for the course in Switzerland, and they do single entry or vignette entry

Welcome to Basel! If you are already here by Feb you (nad fam) can join us at the next curry night Basel Curry- February 1st 2012!!!. Cheers!