Reulein Hotel Lindau

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>

... quick sites and then jumped back to Switzerland, crossed through Austria for an hour or so, and bam, were back in Germany, hehe....<br><br>Now I'm at Sebastian's brother's house, where we will go to sleep soon and visit München tomorrow...<br><br>abrazos!<br>

After a week in Basel we jumped on the train to visit my Uncle and Aunt (Heinz and Elsa) in Gossau &#8211; a small town in the north east of Switzerland. On the way we spent a few hours in Zurich where we just wandered around the city centre, had lunch and sat by the lake. Heinz and Elsa met us at the train station and walked us back to their place &#8211; about 2 minutes away! They took us for a drive up to a place which gives a great view over St Gallen ...

... hour. <br><br>Dinner in the hotel was awesome...a wienerschnitzel that was almost larger than the plate and french fries ro die for. The only way it could have been better would have been if they had some celery salad to go with it. Geman celery salad is made not from the stalk but from the root It is the best stuff going. Oh well, another day and I will find some..

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 ...

Our next stop was St Gallen, home of a beautiful abbey with a medieval library and neighbouring by a charming Old Town. We walked around the abbey exterior before everyone went inside, with the exception of Lincoln and I. I have been here before and know it is a very ornate baroque design inside.<br><br>Next, we walked to the abbey library which houses the largest medieval collection of books in the world, basically. There was an admission to go in and my ...

... houses or the white ones with the brown trim with flower boxes...more fat cows...we saw some black sheep...some chickens...a couple of places where they had pumpkin stands...and the conversations in the car have been great...the best sharing takes place at mealtimes...fun stuff! We drove on west on the Autobahn part of the way and on the little country roads that we enjoy so much to Landau, Germany where we ...

Today was a driving in the rain day, it was raining and we didn't want to just stay at the hotel so we ventured out to a place Norman and I had been to before. Lindau, a beautiful city on the lake. We took wrong turns and the 2 hour trip there took us 4 but we still had fun.. We walked the streets, saw the lake and then had our picnic in the car and headed back, only took us 2 hours back ...

... Gottlieben, Switzerland. One of Rick's business associates had made reservations for us at the Hotel Drachenburg. Quite a nice place! Our room seemed very French with a bidet and a chaise lounge. We had lunch there and had dinner with Helmut. I don't have the name of the restaurant, but we had possibly the best poached salmon ever!!

<br>Today we drove up into the mountains to see the fairy tale castle, Neuschwanstein. This is another of Ludwig's castles, this one unfinished, and served as the inspiration for Disney's Sleeping Beauty Castle. It ...