Until today I never thought I could be so happy touring in a museum I would cry. Today I spent a whopping 2 Euros (total!) to spend the afternoon in two cool museums. The second was a bunch of crown jewels and pottery from the stone age (which was awesome), but it´s the first one that made me cry. It was a musical instrument museum! It wasn´t advertised anywhere, and the tourist info place had never heard of it, but a friend ran into it while she was here last week so I knew it existed. They had one of the first Tubas on display, a bunch of cool bassoons (or Fagotts in German), as well as every other weird and/or old instrument they have been able to get their hands on. The weirdest instrument was there only via photos, but it was still awesome! It was this music box on steroids contraption, which had 270 instruments attached to it to imitate a full orchestra. He literally was a One Man Band!
Tonight I am also staying in a private hotel room for only 29 Euros! It´s kind of nice not to do the dormitory thing for a night. It´s really nice, and is really close to everything here. Tomorrow I´ll be staying in Frankfurt, but I hope to visit the city of Luxembourg in the afternoon. It will probably end up like my adventure to Liechtenstein yesterday.
Yesterday had a lot of train/bus travel, but totally worth it to say I was there and have the opportunity to wander around the city/country a bit. While I was in Vaduz I did do the 'totally tacky tourist thing' and pay to get a stamp in my passport that says I was there. But, I am so happy I got it! I think it was the best souvenir I´ve gotten so far. I also found patches for every country I am going to on this trip (including Vatican City), at a really super cheap price, so I bought them all. The next time I am stuck with several hours at a train station, I might sew them on.
I have also finally found a place that will let me download the photos to the computer and then upload them to the net, so here´s the link to all of my photos since Berlin! I´ll try to add captions to them over the next couple of days.
I love you all!
Andrea
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