ADVENTURE ON A BUDGET | TRAVEL BLOG
In Summary... We didn’t really plan on going to Switzerland after our time in Thonon-Les-Bains. But when we scored a one-week housesit in Zurich, which made little neighboring Liechtenstein feasible, we figured we’d take it for a ride again. This was our first time in the country together, though we had both visited on separate trips in our twenties. It’s a…
Road Trip!! Getting from Zurich to Liechtenstein Twenty-four hours…3 countries!!! Eins, zwei, drei….los!!! From Zürich, we had one big goal we wanted to accomplish…have a first meeting and quickie rendezvous with Liechtenstein…a mysterious micro-state that is not only little, but quite notably…loaded. Of course we could have easily gotten to Liechtenstein’s capital of Vaduz by train, but, by the time we…
Annecy: the "Venice of the Alps" The area surrounding Thonon-les-Bains, where we stayed for our May housesit is simply loaded with day trip opportunities. Annecy, pronounced Ahn-see, is a petit alpine city located near the border of Switzerland, and commonly tagged as the “Venice of the Alps.” However, it seems significantly calmer, tidier and quieter without that overrated Italian label.…