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February 13th 2009

Published: February 13th 2009

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 live... Read Full Entry

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Vaduz

The city's church.

Balzers

The castle of the former Southern Kingdom of Liechtenstein. Roughly 4 minutes from Vaduz with the bus.

Balzers

The castle again.

The Alps

These Alps form the southern and eastern borders of Liechtenstein.

Balzers' Church

We ended up by the church of Balzers.

Bazlers' Church

From the front.

Balzers

Picturesque, if I do say so myself.

The Alps

The eastern border of Liechtenstein

Schloss Balzers

Not as impressive as in Vaduz, but the prince of the country also doesn't live here.

Balzers

Small, but nice.

Two Countries

Taken from Triesenberg. On the left is Liechtenstein, on the right is Switzerland, and the Rhein divides the two.

Swiss Alps

Taken from Triesenberg. Again, two countries in this picture.

Triesenberg

The little city? village? built into the side of the Alps.

Triesenberg

Triesenberg in the foreground [ie, Liechtenstein] with Switzerland on the other side of the Rhein.

Triesenberg

One more time, for good measure.

Triesenberg

This picture is cool 'cause all the domes of the churches we saw came to a point, except in Triesenberg, where it was more of an onion-type dome, which is what you see most often in Austria.

Bodensee

In Bregenz, Austria.

Bodensee

The natural divider between Austria, Switzerland, and Germany.

Bodensee

Not exactly the most comfortable beach.

Bodensee

Rare patch of sky between the white-out snow. That's Germany on the other side.

The Sky

It kept changing every 10 minutes between being cloudy and dark and snowing ridiculously hard, to blue skies and sun.

13th February 2009

Hillary
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Federer (my "exception" a la Friends)
Thanks for the Federer thing. It kind of looked like him on the money you had a picture of. Second, I don't think you should be going places without your passport on you. Doesn't seem smart.

13th February 2009

MooseIsLoose
Matthew Greene

I don't need to carry my passport, I have a card that I have with me that replaces my passport, 'cause it lists me as an inhabitant of Austria, so I only need my passport when I'm in another country...it's a pretty sweet deal haha

13th February 2009

Mom
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One lucky guy!

14th February 2009

Barbara
non-member comment

Awesome pictures, Matthew

14th February 2009

kristy
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I can't believe how beautiful and storybook Switzerland is! You are some lucky guy! I am so jealous!!! I'm sure you've sent my swiss chocolate valentine - it's probably in the mail! You look fabulous and so happy! Miss you! xok

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