After some confusion over what exact geographical position we had. We thought we had driven to Liechtenstein - but the Austrians certainly did not agree. A short GPS programming later, even the wild natives of this country agreed that it was Liechtenstein.
The border control wasn't very scary, they didn't even stamp our passports - but instead referred us to the Tourist Office for such requests. What to do in Liechtenstein... Well... boom boom.
After spending the night we found a castle, one of the two that they have. It was nice, old and only partially open to the public – ie you had to visit their driveway (long) and courtyard (short)…
After a short time, we jumped on to Switzerland, where the cows bumbled with bells and to our great astonishment - were not purple. Once we arrived in Lucerne, we could see that here, of course, you had money and nice cars.
Mount Pilatus beckoned on the horizon, but so did heavy rain clouds. It turned into a few extra days in the city, while we went to the Swiss Museum of Transport. Here you have the development of cars, boats, submarines, trains and all kinds of airplanes... as well as chocolate - chocolate is important 😉
And then came the good weather, as if sent from heaven. Off towards Mount Pilatus. Fortunately no connection to pilates as we were transported by ship, alpine train (cogwheel train with 48% climb) and cable car. If desired, you could also hike up to the top of the mountain - we didn't want that.
At the top of the mountain, we found that the ultimate climbing animal is a mountain goat with narrow hooves. How the cave they manage to stand firmly on an 80 degree rock wall, only at the very outermost edge of the hoof – is a great mystery. But they could, who demonstrated 50m above our heads on the footpath.
Mount Pilatus was a good experience, which made sure to quell the fear of heights. It's not that dangerous at all (only if you fall down)
Nerd hat on.
CERN – Particle accelerator is pretty much the most important scientific experiment today – and tour tickets are sold out in 10 seconds – 3 weeks in advance. The current accelerator track is 27km in circumference - they want one of 100km. Since we are not exactly world champions in predicting where we will be at a certain time - when it is holiday. Then it became a visit to their permanent exhibitions.
Extremely impressive, once they had switched on the electronics... Both ball-shaped computers and chairs told each about their subject in particle theory and the origin of the universe. Yes, the chairs speak wisely to you when you sit down, extremely fancy.