My one exception to avoiding spending money in Liechtenstein is souvenirs. There’s a WH Smith type shop selling books and toys on the main square in Vaduz that has lots of cheap souvenirs. You can tell someone massively over-ordered in the 80s or early 90s and they’re still trying to shift them. I have one of the giant pencils and I’m sure it would crumble if I ever tried to write with it. Everything is just a couple of pounds. I have so many Liechtenstein items at home now.
The cow bell actually came from a supermarket in Vaduz. The cow puppet came free with some cheese in Austria.
I’ve also got a Tintin book in Liechtensteiner dialect. Worryingly it’s completely understandable and doesn’t seem strange to me. I have ruined my German wandering around the mountains. “Am Ottokar his Szeptre” is a very, very hickish way of phrasing it in German.
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