Best Western Hotel Sommerau Chur

We were planning to go to Liechtenstein but thought we may as well as it was sort of on our way. It's the worlds 6 smallest country so it would have been rude not to go..haha.<br><br>We didn't drive to the main town but to another.. where really there wasn't anything. I did get a photo with the tourist sign though. Had to somehow prove I'd been there!<br>

... Feldkirch I got lost. Actually I was just trying to get to McDonald's because the group wanted a bathroom break and the public toilets here were not to our standards. Anyway, I drove past the McDonald's twice - once my fault and once the navigator's - and drove down a pedestrian only section of road before we gave up and continued on our journey out of town and deeper into Austria.

... I think when I get back home I will throw a "European Breakfast" one weekend to share with you all.  Anyone want to come?<br><br>After breakfast Judy wanted to mail a package home, so we found the post office.  We had to walk there once to find it and get a shipping box.  Then we walked there again to take the package to actually mail it.  It ended up being over the standard shipping weight, so she had to fill out customs forms but found success in the end.  Now Judy had less stuff ...

... get on the bus I watched southern Liechtenstein roll past on the way to Vaduz. Cute villages with quaint houses, cows grazing in green pastures, and a castle sitting on a high hill surrounded by vineyards.<br><br>Vaduz is a very nice city. The royal residence, a castle of course, sits on a high cliff directly above the city centre. The main street is a pedestrian street with shops and restaurants, museums, the tourist office, the ...

... t do much, as there was an intense thunder storm, which I watched from my window. The thunder was so loud, and the storm was right above us, you could feel the electricity in the air. This was a great excuse to stay in bed, read, nap, and just watch the ipod (thanks mar!). I do wish I had of made it out to visit Chur, as it was a lovely little village, and one of the oldest, continuously inhabitated places in Switzerland. I didn't go to ...

... seemed rather quaint after so many quite huge set-ups. The train set off out of Chur Station, then took a quick left off the main rail into the city's traffic, passing close to the City Gates and up beside a raging torrent that, with the train line and the road, filled the tight little valley up to the little resort called Arosa after first crossing one of the oldest concrete viaduct/bridges in the Swiss rail system c1910. We alighted ...

... wrought iron design. The Abbey was completed in the 18th century and the whole looks hardly changed since then including the floor to ceiling pipe organ. The library was in another building...part of the boys college. Another hard to find doorway, Up some stairs and, after paying a small fee and donning slippers over our shoes, we entered through a small wooden door into the most magnificent library I have ever seen. The floor was of polished inlaid wood (which explained the ...

... was tough to appreciate the top-angled windows of the panoama coaches until you travel alongside hills and mountains and can see the top of the treeline out the windows over your head. The entire journey travels a few hundred bridges and tunnels. Unfortunately, I do not believe my segement had as many as the two I did not ride. However, this was not to say the scenery was not spectacular. Sometimes, we were following a ...

8/31/99 Tuesday<br><br> Davos to St. MoritzWe woke up this morning to a beautiful, clear, cool morning. We didn't have any large clouds hovering over the mountains like we have had. (NOTE: Today we are off to the winter playground of the rich and famous&#8230;St. Moritz, via the Glacier Express. I am really looking forward to this trip.) We have been on the road for about 1/2 hour and the view is "to die for". We are not taking the motorway, instead the mountain roads that wind through ...

... Hotel Europe, we stopped for some ice cream. I see why Europeans like their ice cream so much. It is really rich, smooth and delicious. <br><br>Once we were back in the room, we started to get ready for dinner. We were heading up the Jakobshorn Mountain for dinner, via cable car (two of them, actually) to the top. I can&#8217;t wait to see the view from the top at night. The view from the cable car was incredible...you could see the entire valley. However, the restaurant was ...