Hotel Restaurant Heintz Vianden

Mr. Mrs. Vernaud and Daniel joined me for breakfast at 6:30 am. I had still suffered the effects of jet-lag during the night, so the strong Swiss coffee was very welcome! After our good-byes, Mr. Vernaud drove me to the Nyon train station and bought me a ticket to Geneva. I hopped on a train just before it pulled out and ended up standing in the entry area with my luggage since the train was full of morning commuters. Also in the entry were three American kids, one teen and two of primary ...

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&#8217;s supposed to take about 6 hours to get to Luxembourg. We&#8217;ll see how it progresses.<br><br>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.

I apologise again for taking so long to release the pics and for not giving a good write up of Luxembourg. I seem to draw a blank when I want to put things down on paper or on computer as the case may be.<br><br>Briefly I'll say Luxembourg was cute! Similar achitecture &amp; feel to German speaking countries ...

... kinds of beer during the past three weeks. This brand was the same as I had in Heidelberg, Löwenbräu Oktoberfest bier. Very smooth! Anyway, to say the least, the next day I had a headache! But we explored the casemates (the old battlements) and the city in great detail. Ken joined us halfway through the day. It was an amazing day, very warm and sunny too! Luxembourg is easily in my top three of visited cities so far. Today (Sunday) we took a day trip to the north of Luxembourg (though ...

Excuse my poor writing..bit tired and trying to catch up with what I've been doing...running out of time! On Sunday we went to Vianden Castle - the furthest north I have been in Luxembourg so far. It was an amazing view as we turned the corner and the castle stood proud on the top of a hill - I'm sure there are too many photos but it was an awesome sight! Actually at this point I should also say that a lot of the photos from this weekend were taken ...

... 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.