Two days in a row. Just don't expect this to be a regular occurrence. Once I have to pay for Internet access I won't be very diligent with the posting.

So, yesterday we went to Basel for the day. Our main purpose was to visit the Tinguely museum, which houses a collection of moving art. This guy made these huge found art pieces, many of which have motors. One of them fills an entire room and you can walk through it. He obviously had a dark personality because many of them are very morbid and threatening. One particularly morbid one was an 'altar piece' made from the remains of a race car his friend died in. Creepy!

Before heading to the museum though we took a couple of guided walking tours. You can get maps of the tours at the Information Office and the routes are marked with little signs through the city. Sites included the oldest university in Switzerland, Marktplatz, Rathaus (townhall), the munster, Martinskirche and the Tinguely fountain. It was very quiet since it was a Sunday which was nice.

Halfway through our tour through the Tinguely museum we went to the cafe to use the food vouchers we got with our tickets. This was a nice look at not only how expensive it is to eat, particularly out, in Switzerland but also how difficult it is likely to be for me to be vegetarian in Europe. I recently read that Vancouver is one of the most vegi friendly cities in the world so I've had it pretty easy.

It took me a while to decide what I wanted to do today but I eventually decided to visit Liechtenstein. Why not visit another country for the day right? I took the train to the Swiss border town of Sargans then got on a Liechtenstein bus. I got off in Balzars first to take some pictures of the castle then continued to the capital, Vaduz. It's kind of neat to be in a capital city that you can walk from end to end in a few hours.

I started off my hiking up the hill that Vaduz Castle sits on. Unfortunately the castle was covered in scaffolding but the views from the hill are great. After that I checked out the main square, which includes the Town Hall and other interesting buildings. I visited the Postal Museum, which was not only open (unusual on a Monday) by free. They have one a huge stamp collection. Seeing stamps like that though makes me question why we're expected to pay for these elaborate pieces of art when a plain old stamp would do just fine. After that I checked out the government building and St Florin Cathedral. The cathedral has a very nice courtyard that I sat in and people watched for a while and an interesting cemetery. I eventually meandered my way back to a bus stop and hopped on a bus back to Switzerland. This was the first journey that involved changing trains/mode of transport and I'm glad it was wrinkle free. Tomorrow I think I'm going to give my feet a bit of a rest and stay in Zurich. There are a few museums here that I'd like to see.

Ciao for now.

Love,
Megan