Whee! An OskarCard, with free admission to most of eastern Switzerland? Where should we go? Up Säntis of course!
Left the hotel, and puttered around on some trains and some bus and a cableway to get to the top of Säntis. Nice and clear, and what an odd mountain, some huge uplifted limestone block left over from the Tethys Sea of 100 million years ago. On top, brrr, it was a few degrees above freezing, and we enjoyed a 26 SF brekkie buffet (each, ouch, but those multigrain croissants were fantastic) and the views down over a mountain range that looked like a Toblerone bar, serrated.
Down into Appenzell, with a free museum entrance to stare at the odd sci-fi looking local costumes. Once again the art museums both had tedious opening hours, closing at noon, so we missed them both and decided to just head to the hotel in Vaduz and figure out our day. The Appenzeller Bahn train was cute as it went down, steeply, into the Rhine Valley... on a geared train track.
A bit of a train and a bus and a walk and we were at the hotel. Lichtenstein doesn't have much, it's a small little domain without a train station or an airport, but it does (probably) have more money per person than Switzerland. We decided we'd do that first little part of the Via Alpina, downhill from Gaflei Klinik into town, just because why not and we were feeling completist and didn't have much else to do that afternoon. I also thought: maybe a nice 10km walk would improve my jetlag? Maybe.
The hike itself was meh, lots of walking through a tall forest, little views until we got very close the castle where the prince lives. Then walk back through town, stop at Coop for a sandwich to eat in the park, and sleeeeeep.