After a short night, despite getting up later than intended, we all got cleaned up and had the free toast breakfast offered by the Hostel. Then we got on the road again. Our first intended stop was the Neuschwanstein Castle. This is the castle that Walt Disney based the castle at Disneyland after. The It was built for the King of Bavaria at the time. However he only lived in it for a few weeks. The castle was never completed but turned into a Museum only a couple weeks after the Kings premature death. The inside was absolutely unbelievable the entire castle was not decorated to celebrate the king but to be a story of plays written by a playwright the king was fond of. We arrived at an unfortunate time missing the English tour right before us. We did decide to wait the two hours to see the next tour which happened to be at two. This however did cut our daylight hours for the rest of the car trip a little short.
We were not allowed to take pictures of the inside of the castle but we could take them of the view from inside.
After the Castle we continued on our way to Liechtenstein. It was dark before we hit Vaduz
When we actually got into Liechtenstein we drove through the better part of the country (it is only 12miles long in its longest direction). While driving through a mountain road we found this huge private castle. Unfortunately it was too dark for any of our pictures to turn out very well but it was a nice view of the city as well from up on the hill. After driving around for a little while we decided to grab dinner in Vaduz. We stopped at a little restaurant and I had my first hamburger since being gone. We also ordered Riviella which I would not suggest. It is some sort of carbonated drink that was hard to get down. It was pretty late when we finished dinner so we headed straight on to Zurich. When we got in to Zurich around midnight we were greeted by Malcolm who was kind enough to let us stay at his flat. The flat was very nice, especially for student accommodation. It is a four bedroom place with two bathrooms a big kitchen a spare side room (where they had put out the sleeping pads for us. And the whole front of the flat is just these huge sun windows. We were all exhausted but somehow managed to stay up for a good while talking, and making plans for the next day. I think we went to bed around two.
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