Archive for May, 2008
Swiss summary…
Standing in Sargans, on the slip road of the autoroute to Zurich, we thought a ride to the city would be a sure thing. Not so, by 2pm it was cold, starting to drizzle and half of Switzerland had ignored us except for one chap who risking someone driving into the back of him had stopped to tell us that he was only going about five miles down the road. Kind of wished we taken the lift just to see how far it would have got us, but he was insistent that where we were was better than where we would be if he took us.
Little ol’ Liechtenstein – all of it
Here’s an interesting little fact: there are more people in our single church in Korea than the entire population of the country of Liechtenstein. Have a think about that and, if you can really grasp that statistic, it will give you some perspective on both nations.
Like virtually everyone else who says they’ve been to Liechtenstein, we planned simply to pass through it. For one thing, it’s expensive to stay in. wikitravel.org recommends staying, as we did, in Feldkirch in Austria. For another thing, you’d be really hard pushed to find any real reason for staying more than a day anyway. There’s simply little here of interest. Don’t take my word for it. History reveals that, when the land for the country was originally given to the princes of Liechtenstein (originally Austrian), they didn’t bother coming to visit it for 120 years. We were curious to see what all the fuss wasn’t about.
Couchsurfing with Bettina
Despite the lack of attention we got on the side of the road outside Innsbruck as we desperately tried to get a lift to Feldkirch, we did make it there that day. We simply walked to the railway station and got on a train. And a very nice one it was with beautiful views all the way of mountains and streams and an autoroute that was virtually empty which might well explain why we never got a lift.
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