Opting not to spend my last full day actually in Austria, I made a quick trip to Liechtenstein, purely for the novelty value.What is there to say about that tiny little state? It seems that the nation comprised of avid stamp collectors. At least, there were stamp collections everywhere, on postcards, even on the floor of the main street. Quite the sign that there's not much going on there. They also seem to have a slight identity crisis, selling far too many souvenirs and things that are for Switzerland.
I thought Vorarlberg had a range of architecture, but Liechtenstein wins hands down for the pure craziness of some of the buildings.
The odd thing was the groups of athletes and East Asian tourists wandering around. Turns out that every 2 years the small states of Europe (less than 1,000,000 inhabitants) have their own Games and these just so happened to be taking place in Liechtenstein last week. Well that explains the athletes at least.
Wednesday, being my last night, was not to be a dull one. The evening started by going for dinner with Maral and then for a few drinks. As well as Thursday/Friday being a national holiday, there seemed to be some big event going on across town so it was very, very busy! Later, Raffi joined us. Maral went home at a fairly reasonable time and Raffi and I continued the partying. We had our last Long Island Ice Tea für Erwachsene before heading to Calypso. I happily danced the night away, although it was very weird seeing the sun come up and then walking home in daylight.
The late night meant I was rather tired on Thursday so lugging my belongings on and off various modes of transport was not so much fun, especially with my hand luggage weighing in at over 20kg :S I was extremely grateful for the various people who helped me with them.
And so that was it, the end of my time in Austria. Auf Wiedersehen Oesterreich, cheers for the lovely send off. Heellllllooooo bonnie England.
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