Our day started with a big descent into Pfaffikon with great views of the Zurichsee the same route we'd taken the night before in search of food. The route then took us around the Obersee to the much quieter rural town of Smerikov before some beaut open cycling put us on the Wallensee a magnificently scenic body of water surrounded by Mtn peaks.
What a great cycle this section was running right beside but above the lake. The 15 or so Kms provided for stunning views of Swiss villages and mountain tops. The route even had it's own cycle tunnels - long & winding, barely enough room for 2 bikes and looking like it was roughly cut to give it a natural finish
Past the Wallensee we entered a valley surrounded by saw toothed peaks on either side. With pleasant cycle paths (seemed to be heaps of them including Mtn bike trails) we made our way through Sargans to Vaduz the capital of the tiny principality of Liectenstein a country that virtually exists on the side of a Mtn!
KH teed up the accommodation and then demonstrated his masterful understanding of Swiss by wheeling his bike through the restaurant thinking this was the bike storage area when it turned out the employee was in fact telling him that the place had no bike storage and the
bikes had to be left outside!
We wandered into to the towns main area lined with tourist shops and restaurants overlooked over by Vaduz's prominent 12th C castle
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Dinner was courtesy of yet another visit to the local supermarket although we did have enough to buy a couple of beers back at our hotel sitting out in the beer garden reliving the last 3 months cycling!
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