Lichtenstein is not what Frankenstein does with his tongue!

Lichtenstein is not what Frankenstein does with his tongue!
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OK – stupid title for a travel post. But let’s face it, Lichtenstein is a tiny and boring place. At least it is on a Trafalgar Costsaver tour.

Close your eyes so we can do a mental re-enactment with you as the protagonist.

Hang on, can’t do that. You won’t be able to read my wonderfully evocative words with your eyes shut. So you are just going to have to read them and do your best with the mental image.

First, imagine that you are dragged out of your tiny, cramped hotel suite at some ungodly hour of the morning. Zombie-like you stumble into the breakfast room, nibble some brains… I mean cheese, ham and cereal. Then stumble back up to your room to shove all your stuff into some suddenly shrunk suit cases which you push outside the door for porters to collects.

Somehow you wake up in a coach which is taking you away from the beauty of Lucerne. Except now you notice storm clouds gathering above the city and its surrounding Alps. You grin stupidly at your wife (yes, if you are a woman reading my words then no doubt you are having a sexually ambiguous moment – assuming I have any idea what that phrase means – which I don’t). Your grin is meant to express “Yippee, we’re getting out of here before the rains ruin our holiday.” It is probably interpreted as

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  1. All shops closed?! It looked like day time to me! You took wonderful pictures despite in your “zombie” state 😀


    1. My vague memory tells me that it was a Sunday, hence the shops being closed. My zombie-like state was probably an exaggeration, but I know that the early mornings left me tired each day. I am simply not the kind of person who easily copes with leaping out of bed at 5:30am or whatever 🙂


  2. I think our football team may’ve lost a match to the team of Lichtenstein once. They say their team consists of firemen and barbers who play in their free time…


    1. So when you say “our football team” do you mean the team that you follow or the team in which you play? I am curious as to whether you have another talent 🙂


  3. Oh Greg. I am so sorry that your trip through Lichtenstein was not positive. My first husband was from Lichtenstein. I loved it there and found it so picturesque. Has it changed so much in the last 40 years? It is pretty tiny, isn’t it. Loved your photos!!


    1. Hi Diane 🙂 I don’t think that it was Lichtenstein itself that was the issue; it was the tour. The tour seemed to stop off at a lot of places just for the sake of being able to say that it stops there. But the stop has little quality to it. If I were the tour designer I would remove one or two of the stops and extend another couple.

      And your first husband was from there? I’ve learnt something about you 🙂

      Glad you liked my photos 🙂 I just wish that I had seen more of the place so that I could take some really good ones 🙂

      Greg


  4. “Our” team means the national football team of Russia. I have no talents, Greg =)


    1. LOL @ “no talents” ? You are uber talented ?


      1. Well thank you, Greg, but you’re too kind. You just happen to like my sense of humour, and consequently you see me in a way more positive light =D

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