Lichtenstein is a small country, the sixth smallest in the world. Its only 25 km long and has 38.000 or so inhabitants. It is tucked away in a valley between two mountain ranges and is not easy to get to. That is why it still exists and has not been swallowed up by bigger conquest driven nations. One thing it has in abundance is natural beauty. The Vaduz Castle dates from the 12th century and the upper Rhine River runs through the valley. We are booked in the Park Sonnenhof hotel which is just incredible. We are one of two rooms that are booked in the entire hotel. We had received an email three weeks prior to our arrival informing us that the hotel needed to close on Sundays and Mondays due to staffing issues. Unfortunately for us we had booked Sunday and Monday! We respectfully told them we could not reschedule so they let us stay here anyway. That was very nice of them. The onsite resturant was closed and so to were all of the restaurants in Vaduz. Sundays are day of rest for everybody. We got into the room and then got back into the car to seek out sustenance. The local supermarket was still open so we picked up a minimal dinner. Ramen and Cup O Soup took us both back to the college days but it allowed us to enjoy the sunset from our deck and still have some dinner.
Pulling off the highway
The sweet scenery begins already
Our Hotel!
Nicely decorated with an eye to great art
An overlook
Blue sheep and their eggs
A fountain right out in the front
The outside seating area for the restaurant
More sheep
The drive into the hotel
A green roof
Our room
the balcony is right out this door
Cool leafless trees
The restaurant will be open tomorrow
Inside bar area
This is the outdoor seating for the restaurant that is unfortunately closed
Race of the planes
Mountains all around
The last of the Veuve Cliquot
Over there is the end of the country
Getting some late October sun
The castle from our balcony
The Red Baron's biplane!
A fine Austrian Wine 93 from wine spectator
https://www.vinello.eu/hill-1-leo-hillinger
Trees, flowers, birds, butterflies, wine and my honey!
Smooches!
Enjoying my wine
I wonder if it plays?
More smooches.
Different slopes are now getting illuminated
Shutterbug!
The various shadows are from the different mountain peaks, this side of the river is Switzerland
Sunlight reflected off the windows and then making shadows from our champagne bottles
The butterflies here are fast and dark to collect the sparse sunlight
The Sun is down!
This chocolate dinosaur ate your chocolate bunny
Cop O soup for dinner!
Cup O Salad as well
The table is set and dinner is served
Really good and all we needed
Dig in with our fancy sporks
A bit of dessert and we are set
