And so the journey begins....

The journey there wasn't too bad, I had to a change of trains once I was on the border of France and Switzerland, the customs check there was look at your passport ask where you are going and you are on your way... no stamp though The custom/guard was a little taken back when he asked where I was going to and I said Liechtenstein. I guess it isn't a place that most people go to. The next train couldn't make it all the way there was something wrong with the tracks, so we were all shuffled onto a bus for the remainder of the trip. the country side in Switzerland is just amazing, we travelled along side a lake for awhile, it was just breathtakingly beautiful. I will have to come to Switzerland, but not this trip. I got to Liechtenstein and found the hostel. This place is small. That afternoon I walked into the capital...village... I guess it is too small to call it a capital city, it only has about 5000 people in it. The next day I headed out with a couple of Aussies I met at the hostel, they were from Noosa area in good old Queensland We headed up to have a look at the castle were the royal family still lives, unfortunatly the bad weather is still following me and it was very overcast and threatening to rain. After that we headed into the town to get a tourist stamp in our passports... for a price of course. Liechtenstein is expensive, they were telling me that they went to MacDonalds for dinner, thinking it would be the cheapest thing around, it cost them nearly 30 Swiss Francs, that is over 30 aussie dollors for a couple of Big Mac Meals. The rest of the afternoon I decided to just chill out at the hostel and read a book and hope that the weather cleared up some what, but the weather forecast was meant to be that the weather was going to get worse. The next morning the sun was shining and I took advantage of this to head to the South of Liechtenstein and walk the entire length of the country. And I am happy to say that I manged to do it in 5 hours, the country is about 25 something kilometres long. I think I gave the bus drivers a of a giggle, as they were all waving to me as I was walking, they all passed me atleast a dozen times while I was doing this. A few kilometres from the end I wanted to call it quits, my feet were hot and it looked like it was going to rain. Instead I headed down to the Rhine river and stuck my feet in there for a bit. The water so incredibly COLD!!! It was that cold it didn't even feel like water running over my feet, it felt more like thick gel, it was a really weird feeling. My feet were happy to be cooled off a bit and happy that I didn't subject them to the cold any more then a few minutes. I made it to the border. Well what a disappoint that was, I was hoping for a border crossing or something, but there is just a sign showing that it was the end of the town I had just walked through and that it was the start of Austria, and it was written in German Osterreich. Good thing I did that German course otherwise I would have missed it :P That evening I was quite happy just to relax, tomorrow I am heading back again to Germany.