Lichtenstein is distinctly different to Austria. The castle is the first thing you see, it is the home of the royal family and sits atop a wood covered hill. It is in the middle of the Alps and surrounded by snow covered mountains, like something off of a castor sugar packet. We arrived extremely early and were very cold. Although Vaduz is their biggest city it is basically one main street and a castle. We walked along the main street, and then sat in a church to keep warm for an hour, while dust coated cleaners did the floors. The church was surprisingly warm and although Catholic was not very ornate, perhaps because now we were further west. As we left we remembered to cross ourselves in front of the alter, for show. And we hoped we crossed ourselves in the right direction - Orthodox cross right to left and Catholics left to right - or the other way around!
We came across a beautiful mosaic covered building being used as a police station. I took a photo as part of my more-photos-plan. Once 8am hit we returned to the Tourist Info to discover it was closed for the day. Saturday. But it didn't really matter as we had our "Let's Go" and at least, unlike some countries, the info was accurate.
Photo by Kyselak on Wikimedia
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