Hotel Parc Beaux-Arts Luxembourg City

... heard some Luxemburgish music and I liked it. Conrad worked on the computer to map our route for tomorrow while Karyn and I chatted. Spoogy sat in her lap for a bit and then made his way to mine. He is a very sweet dog! We all went to bed at 11 pm. I stayed up for an hour more to upload pictures while making a tent with my blanket. I hid under it because it was warmer that way! I drifted off to sleep at midnight.<br>

Of course I needed to visit Luxembourg, hiding away there between France, Germany and Belgium. It is the fifith smallest country in the world. It is very hilly and surrounded by trees. The hostel is down at the bottom of a cliff, yay! The city of course is quite small, but it is surrounded by ruins and forest which makes it quite a unique city in amongst the hustle and crowds of all the other major cities. The people there speak French and their own language, Luxembourgish I suppose.

... Roman ruins and the churches up close. Trier was very nice and I love the feeling there, the Roman baths were also really cool to see. We also had a great dinner in the main square of town. I had Pepper Steak and spetzlah. It was so good. The seats outside were great and I was able to people watch and really just embrace in the culture. Plus a little wine probe, wine tasting, helped a lot.

... furnished as they had been for the last 700 years or so. This castle looked more comfortable and livable than many other old castles that we have seen. I mean these people installed toilets, 20 of them, in their rooms. They had lots of fireplaces to keep the place warm in winter. The Elz family may have been a little short of Versailles-style ceremonial rooms, but they had a place that one might actually care to live in.<br> After we ...

... around the old fortifications and an old abbey, saw an abstract art and sculpture exhibit, walked around the pedestrian district in the Haute Ville and did some shopping, saw a carnival, and ate some cheese (although not Luxembourg cheese - apparently there's nothing called that here). So, on to what I did today: as many of you know, I'm a huge fan of the Amazing Race. I've been having many of my own Amazing Race moments on this trip. Mostly, this involves me stumbling ...

... were located. After lunch, we headed to the Britania, a pub that Speedy said used to be his "living room" pre Kathy. The 6 Nations Rugby tournament matches were beginning and we went to watch England and Italy. We also hooked up with some of Speedy and Kathy's friends, F.A, Ken, Neil and others. A great afternoon, England won!! and we watched part of the next match before heading for dinner. We had dinner at a Balkan (Yugoslavian ...

... manoeuvring in traffic and makes the bike easier to park. I have also learned that my cycling gear is waterproof, but it's the inside layer and not the outside. So don't keep my passport in the outside pocket. I have noticed that even though I speak French and English, and have all my life, the English in the U.K and the French in France have different expressions to say the same thing. We speak the same language, the underlying form, but the words themselves, form, are ...

... our five glasses to the bar and get 5 euro back, which made me happy. Spain won, and there was a huge celebration. People got up on the stage and started dancing. They had their shirts off (including the women), and just had their bodies painted like the Spanish flag. They were doing some fire breathing and throwing some balls around on strings, some that were lit on fire. It was weird. We then went home to leave for Strasbourg tomorrow.

Our family travelled to Luxembourg for a week for a work conference. Was it just me or was there a bank on every corner? I think the trip was quite expensive for my parents. <br>Assuming it was because there are so many languages spoken in ...

... Casemates - tunnels and chambers dug to further fortify Luxembourg city. Saw Notre Dame church and walked along the park at the bottom of the valley where we found an old church built into the side of the hill. Luxembourg is a beautiful medieval valley.