This page was entered manually from memory, starting on 27 April 2017. I was aged 8 at the time. It's clearly inaccurate, and may change
significantly. Items in italics, like this, were added during this time.
For some reason I have a firm recollection that this was the correct date, but looking
at the itinerary suggests that it should have been up to two weeks later. Unfortunately
my memories of this trip were not sufficient to fill out the time between the known dates
12 April 1957 and 4 July 1957.
Coming out of Innsbruck we were greatly
amused by the names of some of the villages in the
vicinity: Mutters
and Natters.
We arrived in Vaduz in the evening. I have
a recollection of us rolling in the grass and wildflowers on the side of an east-facing
hill, but either it wasn't east-facing or it
wasn't Liechtenstein, which is a
west-facing country, here seen from across
the Rhein
in Switzerland:
I had understood that my father was the only representative
from Malaya, but it seems that
there were 7.
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