Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me Simon Calder. It's Tuesday the 18th of March.

Today I am hearing about a country that gets mentioned a lot, but not properly talked about.

It is Liechtenstein, a splinter of central Europe, like Monaco, San Marino and Gibraltar, it's one of Europe's

blink and you miss it countries, a mountainous crumple of territory measuring just 15 miles by four.

To find out more about this place, which is always mentioned in the context of the Schengen area,

which includes almost all the European Union plus Switzerland, Iceland, Norway and

Plucky Liechtenstein, I have been talking to Claudia Anjolata. She is the project manager

for marketing for Liechtenstein tourism.

Lichtenstein is between Switzerland and Austria.

It's a very small country.

We have about 40,000 inhabitants.

What am I going to see there?

Since we are in the middle of the Alps, we have a lot of mountains to see, a lot of hiking to do. And we also

have our capital city for Dudes. And there is, for example, the castle of the Prince Lee family

you can see from outside, a lot of museums. And of course, we like to eat there. We have some

culinary delights as well. What sort of culinary delights will

I find? Well, our national dish is Kerskneppfle, translated in English something like

cheese dumplings with Liechtenstein cheese and it's very famous and it's very good. We often eat it

with apple mues and onions, yes. Getting to Liechtenstein is quite difficult because if I've got this right, there is a railway going through the country, but it doesn't stop or it certainly doesn't stop at the capital of Vaduz.

Yes, Vaduz doesn't have a train station.

So the easiest way to get to Liechtenstein is by train from Switzerland or Austria

and then take the bus directly to Liechtenstein.

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