For having the longest post title of the trip, this will nonetheless be one of the shorter posts.  Leigh covered our morning in the hills of Liechtenstein, so once we finished our llama walk, it was time to take the bus back down the mountain to the bustling urban capital of Vaduz.

We made our way to the nearest bus stop, where we were presently joined by a local woman to wait for the bus.  When it arrived, we all boarded, the doors closed, and then the woman suddenly started saying something to us that seemed extremely urgent, despite our minimal command of German.

Then we looked out the window and saw our bag of bars from the chocolate making class sitting on the bench of the bus stop.

Much frantic gesticulating and shouting at the driver ensued, and I did manage to get released before the bus left to jump out, grab the chocolate, and hop back on.

When we arrived in the capital, we stuck our luggage in a locker and went for a walk about the downtown area to see what we could see.  There’s a few interesting sights, but we didn’t remember to take pictures of many of them.

You can look up the hill at the Prince’s castle, but since he lives there, you can’t go inside.  We decided to just look at a model instead. (You can see both in this shot.)

We went to the postage stamp museum, that was cool.  Pity we didn’t take any photos.  There’s also a statue dedicated to Liechtenstein’s most famous composer, Josef Rheinberger.  (Who I initially confused for the ever so slightly marginally more famous Jaromir Weinberger, author of Schwanda the Bagpiper. I am not making this up.)

I did manage to remember to take one picture of this exhibit in the modern art gallery above the postage stamp museum.

The shoes were part of a different work, but I was really taken by the collection in the back.  While they may seem to be a number of different objects, the entire set is actually a single work of art, designed to look like a cultural exhibition on the history of a fictitious country.  It includes artifacts and artworks from the Neolithic period up to the present day, but all from a place that doesn’t really exist.   Neat.

However, at that point it was starting to rain pretty hard, so we decided it was time to depart the principality and head back to Switzerland for our last stop on the tour – Zurich!  But here’s one last shot from the train station in Sargens that encompasses a pretty substantial chunk of the entire country.

In Zurich, we were staying in our first AirBnB for the entire trip, above a jazz club in a busy downtown neighborhood.  It was pretty nice – it had vinyl records, a French press, a whiteboard to write messages to future guests.  Needless to say – we weren’t anything LIKE hip enough for this room.

We walked around the neighborhood a bit, had some tapas, then walked around some more.  Saw this dude in a crypt:

And this lady at the train station:

And then we went and crashed.  One day left!