Blogs from Liechtenstein, Europe - page 4

It's not every day that I'm setting foot in a new country. I'm not that far from 80 countries visited...but it take some effort to add one more at each step. Well, for sure I could add few more by heading to the Balkans (2010), or the Baltic (hopefully 2011)...or Central America (soon...maybe...). Some of my friends will also tell you that I should not put Liechtenstein in my count as we did not sleep there. But same problem as for Luzern...here you pay a lot...for not much in term of sleeping "quality". So we ended up spending the night in Dornbirn, few miles north of Vaduz. Liechtenstein is a small country...and yes we did verify this.The is mainly one single main road connecting few villages. I had not much info in terms of what to ... read more

Four countries, two days, more walking than you can imagine. It's a beautiful thing. Monday morning, Libor and I were at the train station at the ungodly hour of 5:30am to catch our train at 5:45. At about 10 we pulled into Salzburg, though we were late in catching our connecting train since we weren't travelling with ÖBB , but die Deutsche Bahn. Let us be a little prejudiced, ok? We've lived in Austria for almost 6 months now, of course there's animosity between us and Germany :) Anyways, after waiting a half-hour in Salzburg, we boarded the train, took a small ride through Germany, went through Innsbruck, and at about 3:30 on Monday afternoon arrived in Feldkirch, one of the western-most cities in Austria, which only took us about 10 hours to get to. For ... read more

Today I had one of those spectacular travel experiences that makes people want to spend there whole lives traveling around and doing nothing else. In fact, today was above in beyond anything I could have thought about. In fact, I may have achieved a state of travel nirvana, and ruined traveling for everyone else. How? I went to Liechtenstein. But first I set out to explore Feldkirch. It didn't take long. But it was really nice. I also went on a short hike recommended by the hostel clerk where I got great views of the town and the neighboring countryside. At one point, I could see Austria, Liechtenstein, and Switzerland all at once. I like this place. The hostel is awesome, the scenery is great, the people are really friendly and helpful, and I would definitely ... read more

After an eventful drive from Interlaken, Switzerland to Triesenberg, Liechtenstein whereby we were caught in an avalanche and had to reclaulate our journey that last 5 hours.... we arrived in Liechtenstein weary but excited to be in a country thats probably smaller than most english towns. But we soon learnt that what Liechtenstein lacked in size, it certainly made up in spirit and atmosphere. If i'm truly honest, i fell in love with the place... we stayed in Triesenberg, On our 2nd day in Liechtenstein, we discovered a personal highlight of the trip... The most eastern part of the country hugging the Tyrol mountains on the Austrian border, a town called Malbun. We set off from our hotel in Triesenberg and weaved up the mountain roads through a town called Steg. 2 mins later (in Liechtenstein, ... read more

... only one step away. Like four - oh crap! No, this blog is supposed to be about four COUNTRIES in one day... not seasons. Oh well... :P Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another addition of Grotsky's Blog! This episode is brought to you by McDonald's Diam McFlurry "we think it's worth sitting on a fence for" Please however be advised that there is a slight delay on the 'susan's world (focusing specifically on particular regions of Germany, France and England) tour' blog service due to a signaling malfunction at laptop and card reader stations (can you tell that I've been hanging around in a lot of London tube stations?). Okay - when we last left our wonderful world watcher she had finally awaken from a deep deep sleep that she was put into by ... read more