312. Big World, Small Country

Liechtenstein

Focused start as the campsite locks the gate from midday till two - just the incentive the Gaintarvaners need to get us going. As it was we slipped out a eleven fifty six with an easy four minutes to spare.

Stopped on the way for lunch in a rest and it was a baking thirty degrees but lovely flopping round making lunch with plenty of time on this two hour drive. The map above time is if we were doing the normal road speed of one hundred and twenty kilometres per hour but we only travel at two thirds that speed, eighty kilometres per hour.

Sent up temporarily as we are sited on a narrow strip and could get landlocked by campers either side of us. The intention is to back up into the motorhome space behind us tomorrow. The children were otherwise amused and Fyfe normally helps me uncouple the caravan by operating the Disco's height control for me. Not wanting to bother him I flicked it to low and rushed round to release the coupling which stuck due to the weight of the Disco now pressing down. With over two and a half tons of Disco bearing down on the drawbar the new jockey wheel took the strain and bent backwards, bending the releasable friction coupling that holds the jockey wheel. 😡, I am a complete🤡. Dismantled it and straightened things as best as i could but it will never be the same.

Popped to the nearest supermarket and the Disco's gps announced Welcome to Switzerland, then, obviously, returning to camp Welcome to Liechtenstein.

Liechtenstein is an amazing place, only thirty eight thousand people and sixty two square miles. The mountains are incredibly steep and covered with trees and the highest gdp in the world, no army and seventy eight police personal.