Vaduz, Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 2023

Date: 3rd September 2023

Travelled: 130 kms from Memmingen to Vaduz in Liechtenstein  

Visited: Vaduz  

Stayed: Stellplatz Vaduz, free, N47.13860, E09.51050  

Budget: 104 days @ €90 per day

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We say goodbye to Memmingen but before we leave I pop around the corner to the beer shop (there’s a beer shop on every corner) for a few of my new favourite lager. Sadly weight restrictions on our flight home will not allow me to return to Aus with a life time supply. Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night until the morrow.

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Fifty kms later we sadly leave Germany for the last time as we cross the border into Austria. Travelling along an Austrian motorway requires a Vignette (toll pass) and there’s no escaping the motorways as we pass from Germany through Austria and on to Liechtenstein.

We stop at the first service station on the Austrian side of the border (that no longer exists) purchasing a vignette for €9.90. It’s a small sticker you attach to your windscreen giving your vehicle passage through Austria for 10 days. It could be more accurately described as a gouge on travellers passing through Austria for an hour or two.

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No sooner than we have an Austrian Vignette on the windscreen and we pass through a couple of 10 kms long tunnels, when we suddenly find ourselves in Switzerland, which requires another bloody vignette.

It’s a relatively short drive to Sevelen on the A6 and we cross from Switzerland over the Rhine River to Vaduz in Liechtenstein. We’ll worry about the Swiss vignette tomorrow.

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Why are we going to Liechtenstein, the sixth smallest nation on earth, well because we travel in a motorhome and can go where we please and today we are pleased to visit Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein. No longer considered a tax haven it has one of the highest GDP in Europe and seems well to do.

There’s no stellplatz in Vaduz, but the paid carpark next to the soccer stadium is approved for motorhomes, even better it’s free on the weekends, and today is Sunday.

We’ve settled in to the 20 acre car-park as best we can before walking off to explore Vaduz. It’s only a 10 minute walk and four minutes of that is walking across the car-park.

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Sunday in Switzerland or Liechtenstein is take the Porsche out for a spin day. Or if your a member of Liechtenstein Classic Car Club your take your pride and joy down to the mall for show and tell.

There where probably 50 cars on display and 20 motorcycles.

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Just off the mall in a market square they had a marque set up as a foodies venue. Looked great but we soon learnt there was a €50 buy in, which seemed expensive so we kept looking.

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Eventually we come to the Cathedral of Saint Florin. It’s not a gigantic gothic or romanesque cathedral as we’ve seen elsewhere in Europe. If this is the Bishop’s of Liechtenstein’s Church then it’s entitled to be called a cathedral.

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We wander back to the Hymer to have leftovers for a late lunch. The car-park is now full and a soccer match is underway. It’s a noisy affair and emotions seem to be running hot in what we a told is a local derby between Vaduz and Sevelen, the Swiss town on the other side of the Rhine.

Later in the afternoon we walk up the river a km to explore the covered wooden bridge, linking Liechtenstein with Switzerland. Apparently it was the first bridge across the Rhine in the valley.

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The soccer fans all go home around 5 pm and the car-park becomes quiet again, more motorhomes arrive to join us for the night. That was our day in Vaduz.

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Michael + Pam