The principality of Liechtenstein is its own little thing. It's not Switzerland (although they use the Swiss Franc as currency) and it's not Austrian (although they speak a mutated version of German).I went there on a day trip. I saw the whole capital city, Vaduz in, errr...1 hour or so. Sure, it took 3.5hours to get there (faster than getting to the Italian part of Switzerland - it's a small country, but those mountains tend to get in the way) but I wanted to see it, and I wanted to max out my GA while I could. The journey wasn't bad. I got to go through Zurich train station one last time (love it!) and the scenery was great. A little nap time and mind wandering, the SBB is where it's at.
So yeah, Liechtenstein. I'll sum it up rather quickly. It's pretty. It's quaint. It looked like the equivalent of a European suburb. Cute, well kept houses, well maintained gardens and a very expensive car in the driveway.
The royal family lives there, so you can't visit the inside. I did walk up the hill to get closer to it (you never know, I could have run into one of the princes...never mind, the youngest one's already married and is kinda old) and get a great view of the town below. 
Yes, this is the whole town. To the right of the picture is Austria. To the left is the Swiss alps where Heidi lives. No joke. She's from there.There really wasn't much to do there. I walked around, even took a little train tour of the town. Wasn't particularly interested in going to the Royal wine cellar (I had to look up that word in the dictionary. I knew the French word, but couldn't remember the English - yikes!) to do a tasting. I did buy stamps though. How typical.
There were quite a lot of tourists there. I was surprised. I guess it's an easy stop on a tour or while driving through Europe. Even though there isn't much to do, it's really pretty, and that I think is worth the visit.
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