Vaduz, Liechtenstein and Zurich, Switzerland

A while back we set ourselves the goal of visiting 60 countries by the end of 2015. Our definition of 'visiting' is aligned with this country-ticking objective - cross the border and it counts!
So when we noticed that Vaduz - capital of the small Principality of Liechtenstein was directly accessible by train and bus from Chur, Switzerland (our location from the last blog post); we couldn't resist the trip to see it. Then after just two hours of sightseeing, we were back in Switzerland, on route to Zurich for the final stop on our four day Swiss rail journey.

Zurich, Switzerland

Our time in Zurich was spent over a two day period from the 18th-19th of August, arriving via train from Paris Gare de Lyon station where we spent about 2.5 hours in cafe, eating steak tartare and people watching.
The train ride was Zurich, is a beautiful city that is fringed by a lake and the outline of the Alps is visible from a fair distance. We were quite amazed that the tops of the mountains still had snow, although the central city was baking at close to 30 degrees Celsius - could we improve our tan in Switzerland?