Redefining "Tiny"

You're going to love this. Ok, really I just love this, and I hope that you can love it too. Guess what I did on Sunday? I went to...

 

LIECHTENSTEIN!

Can you believe that one? The most fun part of the whole trip was dreaming up ideas about the country with the 3 other friends who traveled with me. What is this place? Why is it so incredibly tiny? What does it mean to be one out of roughly 35,000 Liechtenstein-ers? Does anybody else find it amusing that we walked from Buchs, Switzerland, into Liechtenstein, into the capital of Vaduz, up to the castle, back down, through the entire city of Vaduz and into another called Triesen? We covered 1/3 of the length of the entire Western border of the country by foot. For comparison, to walk from Havre, Montana to Cody, Wyoming, what I estimate as a third of the length of the US from Havre, would take just less than 5 days! Since we went on a Sunday, everything was closed. We found a few open restaurants right below the castle where the cheapest plate was 16 Swiss Francs, so we walked to McDonalds in Triesen where one can purchase a cheeseburger (89 cents in the US) for 2.50 Swiss Francs. A bus ride back to Buchs was 4.30 Francs. Holy guacamole! It's expensive to live the life of a Liechtenstein-ian, -er, -ite (?). But let me tell you, Liechtenstein might be laughably small, but they picked a great little piece of land in the Alps there. Truly gorgeous, and I highly recommend making the journey.

Preferred method of transportation? Tiny train through tiny country?