Hotel Restaurant Acacia Esch-sur-Alzette

Wow what a family adventure. The 6 of us cousins packed our bags and headed to Stansted for a great adventure across Europe. From the huge slices of birthday on the plane to the bumpiest landing ever Hols and I were feeling more than little sick. An exciting 2 hour journey on a coach reminding one of school trips with the back seats. Arriving at 2am it was an advernture making our way to our shared dorm. 6 people in one room for the first time in 8 years. Ear ...

... to see Ashley and have Thanksgiving with her and her husband. Another one of my good friends, Jessica Cavazos's, younger sister happened to be in the area so she came out for the event as well. I'm not sure that her original plan included coming to Luxembourg (or Belgium which is the country that I'm actually in although I can see the border from the window) but when she arrived in Paris last week she immediately fell down a flight of stairs and broke ...

This is an incredible place...but I don't have any pictures... when I got there my camera stopped working :( But I really think it was a blessing because I just saw everything and didn't worry about getting pictures of everything for later, I just saw and took it all in. It was a much needed get-away and it really blew me away, especially the Cathedral! Mass there was unbelievable...and I have a new-found love of French...and their pastries :)

... 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.

05 augustus Het spookt hier Gisteren vertrokken uit Verdun, na kennis gemaakt te hebben met de Staffordshire knot (drievoudige knoop om drie mensen tegelijk te kunnen ophangen...!). Tevens zijn we nu volledig ingelicht omtrent Asperen (spreek uit "aspirine") en de overvloed aan Turken aldaar (zijn in de plaats gekomen van Molukkers en hebben allemaal een schotelantenne); de kwaliteiten van Maggie Thatcher (zal tzt terecht een staatsbegrafenis krijgen), het gebrek aan ...

16 juli On the road again We zijn weer op weg. Eerste stop was niet zo'n succes: akelige camping ergens in België, niet ver over de grens, richting Hasselt. We hadden het kunnen weten, Nederlandse leiding... Afijn, het was wel mooi weer dus gingen wij moedig in het zonnetje voor ons busje zitten. Nou dat viel niet mee. Het wemelde van de giga zwaargewichten, die in nauwelijks verstaanbaar ...

On Thursday I went to see Jean-Michel Jarre with Melanie and Severine from work. He played at the Rockhal which is the biggest music venue in Luxembourg - they get some great artists here. It was an expensive ticket but Jean-Michel is a bit of a legend and I thought it would be a good experience. Apparently the main hall can take up to 6500 people and Severine was telling me that when it opened (2005 ...

... was time to leave, so we entered into Germany one more time. This time it was Koln, or Cologne in English, but disaster was to strike us. Luckily, it was not the Chooky, but whilst Lucy was making a tea, she spilt boiling water onto her bare foot and it burned and went into a blister the size of a tennis ball. We dowsed it with cold water and she slept with her foot in a bucket !!!! The next day in Koln, we did try to get divine ...

... small country, all the cartoons on TV and in the newspaper seemed to not have words, just gestures and sound. The weather was kind of grey, the food was good. We discovered Croque Monsieurs (like grilled cheese sandwiches with ham -delish!)

... 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.