Hotel Parc Plaza Luxembourg City

We were on the road by 10 am, just as planned. Traffic is a bit heavier than we would like, but you work with what you're handed. It’s supposed to take about 6 hours to get to Luxembourg. We’ll see how it progresses.

We passed through Belgium at 1:15 pm. We passed through Luxembourg at 2:15 pm. We stopped along the way to have some lunch at 3 pm because I was very hungry. It was a very small town ...

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.

On Thursday I got up and walked the city of Speicher and looked at the whole town, it really isn't that big at all. It is a small city and most people either work on the Air Force Base or they drive to Bitburg or Trier to work. Anyways it was nice to see the small city and where my parents lived for a few years. After I was finished walking Richard and I went onto the base to look around ...

At last I finally arrive in Trier and meet up with Maureen and Richard. They are old friends of my parents and have agreed to put me up for the next few nights. They recognized me at once saying I look like my parents, of course I smiled and said you don't have to be mean. HAHA. Well after we got in the car we went to the top hill of Trier were we could see all ...

... was stationed here. Check off another entry on the old bucket list but one I really want to repeat before too long...only next time I would like to do an extensive tour over here on a bike.

Unfortunately, my main digital camera broke and nothing I can do to fix it. So I am on my iPhone today with the few uploads I have.

Tomorrow I need to be up early for an 8:30 departure from the ...

... cities at that time. The views from there were pretty impressive. The cathedral was really impressive, & looked quite different to the others we've seen, which made a nice change!

I'll add Germany on in a few days - we've been in this internet cafe for a couple of hours booking our accomodation for the next few weeks & printing off directions!!

... the tourist maps that everyone kept giving me with no road names or highway numbers. Apparently such a thing was not to be found. But everyone told me, don't worry, it's easy to get to Echternach. Just drive to the NW of the city and follow the signs. Which would help if there were signs. I figured out later that there were signs, but they didn't say Echternach. They said the name of some other small city that's on the way to Echternach, which apparently everyone knows. Except ...

... is not over. Not the physical part of it, at least. The learning and having faith part is, mostly. I still have my doubts. I wouldn't be human if it didn't. My Journey of Discovery ended with me finding what I set out for. That is. I did find what the meaning of life is. Grace. Peace. I did find that. That is why Paul's Journey blog ended so abruptly. I found what I had set out to find. That was my Journey of Discovery. I set out on this Expedition to experience life ...

... the hotel to meet Amber for dinner after she got out of her class. We decided to get online a little bit before going to dinner. We walked around to find a place for dinner, we went towards the train station because we were told that the places on that side of the bridge were cheaper. Turns out they were still 20 euro a plate. Ridiculous! So we found a subway which gave student a five euro six inch meal ...

From Amsterdam we headed to wealthy Luxembourg. Another long travel day and short stay. We arrived in beautiful Luxembourg early evening, toured the city on foot as it is quite small and manageable, walked the ramparts early the next morning and back on the train before noon.