Explorer Genes

(May 31/June 1) 24 hours…3 countries!!! Eins, zwei, drei….los!!!

From Zürich, we had one big goal we wanted to accomplish…have a first meeting and quickie rendezvous with Liechtenstein…a mysterious micro-state that is not only little, but quite notably…loaded.

But we’ll get to that in the next post.

Of course we could have easily gotten to Liechtenstein’s capital of Vaduz by train, but, by the time we compared the prices, we realized it was almost the same price to rent a car from the airport for $65 and return it the following day before we jetted off to our next destination.

Plus, this also gave us a lot more flexibility to see more beautiful things along the way, and stay in a cheaper hotel option across the border in Austria.

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(May 24) After our grab-and-go dash of Evian-Les-Bains to fill our water bottles with the swanky stuff, we hopped a stupidly expensive ferry across Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) to Switzerland.

This is a country both of us had previously been to independently but never together. I went in 2008 on a ski trip with some girlfriends to Geneva/Chamonix, and Greg in 2001 on his whirlwind post-graduation backpacker trip through Europe.

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