Soulfood

I spent the last week at a workshop in Montlingen, Switzerland. Somehow in all my travels to Europe (centered around school and work in Germany) I’ve never managed to visit Switzerland before. (I still didn’t get a Swiss stamp on my passport since I entered Europe through Amsterdam…bummer.)

But now I have! Montlingen is on the west side of the upper Rhine River. The other side of the river is Austria, though just south of it on the east side is the tiny nation of Leichtenstein.

When I told my German and Swiss colleagues that I wanted to visit Liechtenstein they did not understand. It is a tiny country, doesn’t even have its own army, nothing to see there….okay, fine. But it’s a country nonetheless and one I’ve never visited. And though it probably isn’t any nicer than any other part of the upper Rhine Valley, I spent an hour there on Friday afternoon exploring the ruins of an old fort and taking many pictures of the surrounding mountains. It was worth the trip!