Hotel Drei Koenige 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>

... Höfen / Weilern. Es hat nur etwas mehr als 800 Einwohner, aber 1400 Ferienwohnungen und Ferienlager. Noch heute gibt es 10 Kapellen und die grosse Kirche im Hauptort Meierhof. Auf der gegenüberliegenden Talseite liegt Waldensburg, Andiast, Brigels und Panix. Über den Panixerpass oder den Kistenpass (Kistenstöckli) gelangt man ins Glarnerland.<br><br>Vor allem Familien ...

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.<br><br>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 ...

... I tried to never look down.  It wasn't difficult because the mountains and villages were fantastic.  As we traveled the villages and town became more quaint and typical Swiss with chalets and small churches and fields of grazing cows and sheep.  I expected Heidi or the Sound of Music family to come running down a steep slope at any moment.  There was still a lot of snow on the mountains, but hundreds of waterfalls were everywhere due to melting snow.  <br><br>We were fed dinner ...

... the trail through the forested area, up switchbacks with short stops at lookouts in small clearings to the city below. It didn't take long to reach the castle. It is closed to the public but sits right next to a public road so I walked along the road to get a good look, then continued along the road up a hill a bit further so I could get a nice view.<br><br>I navigated my way back down to the city below and checked out some of the shops ...

... that Chur is a main destination for outdoors activities such as mountain biking and hiking. That night we ate at a restaurant that was located in our hotel. The main dish we ordered was fondue, which seemed appropriate since we were in Switzerland. It was actually a little disappointing because we had expected a variety of things to dip in the molten cheese but it was only served with cubes of ...

... the Hotel's quite firm beds. We had to make the beds less firm by adding a duvet each, under rather than over us! <br>We awoke early the next morning as our itinery had us catching an early train for Poschiavo. The Bernina Express no less! <br>From Chur Station the Bernina Express took a different route that the one we travelled on the day before. Noticably a much narrower gauge track, but the carriage was no more narrow, and the seating was firm but comfortable ...

We have spent the night in Chur pronounced Koor, which is why when we went to buy the train ticket, she didn´t know where we meant. Switzerland is very pretty, the sawtooth mountains of the Alps are incredable, sorry about my spelling, but spell check for english doesn´t work on a german speaking computer. We went out for dinner last ...

... go all out for desserts, and it shows&#8230;but they also walk a lot, so they can eat like this. When we returned from dinner, it was quite late and we have an early start on Monday... we are off for Lucerne. (Before I forget, the music during dinner was absolutely wonderful. Two young fellows were playing local Swiss mountain music on accordions and my feet just couldn&#8217;t stay still. Maggie was the only other one of Our Group who went with us.) We had a great time.<br><br>