Hotel Allegra Isla Arosa

... ber diesen Blog werden wir unsere Familien und Freunde über den Verlauf unserer Reise auf dem Laufenden halten und Eindrücke und Gedanken teilen.

Also dranbleiben! Am 27.1.2010 gehts los und wir werden euch hoffentlich mit abenteuerlichen und spannenden Geschichten unterhalten - hoffentlich auch alle mit happy end :).

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.

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!

... Gebiet Obersaxen mit dem Stein und dem Piz Sezner und dazu von der Südseite her aus dem Val Lumnezia (Lugnez) das Gebiet um den Hitzeggen. Heute sind die 3 Skigebiete miteinander verbunden, obwohl das Lugnez politisch nicht zu Obersaxen gehört.

Geschichte

Vor den Walsern war es jedoch bereits durch die Romanen besiedelt. Im Testament des Bischofs Tello ...

... apparently been trying to call us, but had the phone number of the team's technophobe, so he didn't realise!! They had a bit of a problem with working out where the maps we all had joined up, and following the roadbook backwards was almost as bad as going along it the correct way!! We had a Europe Road atlas in our car, so we gave it to them, on the basis that they give a donation to our charity.

Landquart, Switzerland dirtyweekenders

Our third stop of the day was our first in Austria. Now I was entering undiscovered lands! Feldkirch is right on the Switzerland border. The old town centre is surrounded by towers, and a castle sits on a hill above.

We explored Feldkirch and a few of its towers. The old town is quite charming with its colorful buildings, trickling fountains, and small shops. When we tried to ...

... 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.

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 ...

... occurrence of swiping came from Tamara taking my new ski cap. Tamara and I finally took a day off from skiing on New Year's Eve and spent a bit of time reading and relaxing and some time exploring the village - we enjoyed a couple of heiße schokolade and beers before meeting everyone for happy hour and a dinner at the hostel. The plan was to then head out to a bar to celebrate the end of 2008 but by 10pm the four American/Canadians had lost their spark. The three ...

... with Switzerland, yet it is officially a country of its own. It's so small that I stayed about a third of the way down the country from the capital (with one town in between), yet could still walk to the centre in about an hour. After investigating the "capital" for all of a couple of hours and not really discovering much of interest (aside from a couple of scupltures and a castle being renovated) I went to bed (well, tent) early with the intention of getting an ...

8/31/99 Tuesday

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…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 ...

8/28/99 Saturday

Zurich to Davos

We arrived in Davos (the Hotel Europe, a 4 star hotel) at 12:37 pm. Davos is much bigger than I had expected. It looks like it would be easy to get lost, but the view is spectacular.

We had a get together dinner at 6 p.m. On our way down to dinner, we heard someone knocking on their door from the inside. Sure enough, it was Shirley. Seems that their door lock was stuck and they couldn't get out. We had to get the hotel ...