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Photographer: Achim Mende Internationale Bodensee Tourismus GmbH

Photographer: Achim Mende Internationale Bodensee Tourismus GmbH

for the 2019/20 season might be a bit less provocative. Gliding weightlessly myself, I took the cable car up
While having lunch at the waterfront, something the local Pfänder Mountain from where I could see
resembling a yellow UFO (unidentified flying object) white clouds mirrored in the blue Lake Constance
came into view: a zeppelin! Forgetting all about the framed by the distant outlines of both Germany and
need to eat, I grabbed my camera and took snapshots Switzerland.
of this flying artifact which was a beautiful sight to The Principality of Liechtenstein was less than one
behold, in its wonderful stillness. I later found out that hour drive away, too convenient an opportunity to pass
Lake Constance was where the zeppelin was invented and if only to collect a stamp in my passport which
and took its maiden flight on July 2, 1900. the staff at the Information Center were more than

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