A rather tiny country!

On the long, easter weekend Roy and I took a road trip through four different countries. We travelled along the extensive motorway network of Switzerland to Liechtenstein. The tiny country is nestled between Switzerland and Austria and is one of two doubly landlocked countries. It's also a fifth of the size of Logan City in Queensland. A novelty to say the least. We had lunch in the capitol city, Vaduz and had a wander around afterwards (It didn't take us long to see the city - it's very small).

Liechtenstein is a principality and the Prince and his family live in a castle on the side of the mountain which overlooks the city of Vaduz (and majority of the rest of the country).  On our way up to our accommodation we stopped off for a look at the castle. Because the royal family live there you can't go inside the castle but it was nice to look at from the outside.

The hotel that we stayed at was perched on the side of a mountain in the town of Triesenberg which offered views of a lot of the country and the nearby mountains in Switzerland. In the last couple of weeks Martigny had started to shed it's winter coat and adopt a more spring feel to it but I think this part of Europe was still holding onto winter for a little while because it was rather cold. Luckily we had checked the weather before leaving and packed our winter woolies.

Sampling the local beer. We didn't have a fridge in our hotel room so we used the good, old outdoor fridge - I guess it was lucky that it was still cold outside, otherwise we would have been drinking warm beer.

Eating a tasty Easter tart.

Waiting for dinner to arrive in the hotel restaurant.

Even though Liechtenstein is a lot like Switzerland it was still really nice to see. I really wanted to post myself a letter so I could get a postage stamp from there but unfortunately because it was easter weekend the post office wasn't open. Perhaps next time we're over that side of the country.