To stamp or not to stamp?

Hello everyone!

      I did make it to Freiburg, although it took me two planes, a bus and a taxi. My flights and such were uneventful, thankfully, but my flight to Basel was late, which made me very worried about catching the bus on time. Upon arriving in Basel I rushed to get my bag and then through customs to make the bus, but I made it with half an hour to spare. I could not figure out why it took so little time. And then it hit me. No one had stamped my passport. I need the stamp to get a visa. So I went back to the information desk to see if I needed to go back through customs and the woman at the desk called the Police. The Policeman came, looked at my passport and said he would take it to get stamped. The whole ten minutes he was gone all I could think was: A. he going to make me go into one of those customs rooms and question me, B. arrest me, or C. just keep my passport and never give it back and then what would I do?!
        In the end, he came back with the stamped passport, and I left to go to the bus. I finally made it to my destination after 14 hours of travel.

I will be sure to post again as soon as something interesting happens, but as of right now I'm mostly just learning how to find my way around the city.

ciao!