Hotel Stand Inn Foetz

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 :)

... hike and we took the dogs with us. It was very nice. It was a small cascade and it was very quiet and peaceful there. She said in the summertime it is very crowded. I imagine it would be like the waterfalls in North Carolina in the summer.<br><br>We got back home and I started working on uploading pictures. I had 5 days to catch up on. We chatted with Karyn while she prepared a dinner of pasta with broccoli ...

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.

... my parents worked for those years. It was pretty awesome to see where my dad was a firefighter so many years ago. Also it was weird because the base brought me back to my youth were I spent lots and lots of time on the base in Great Falls. It was really cool to have that feeling again. After we were done with Spangdhalem we meet up with Mo and went to Trier to walk around and look at ...

Our second day in Luxembourg City started off with a visit to Cathedrale Notre Dame. Seems like a lot of cities have a church with this name. Neither Mila or I are very religious but for some odd reason we love walking into churches. Old churches. The older the better. Especially when it's empty. I once walked into a church that was completely empty. It had gothic architecture and was lit only by candles. Only a few rays of sunlight was able to peek through the stained glass ...

... sure why, but I went along with it. It seemed like the right thing to do. I guess because of the cold war and everything. In the end, Spain beat Russia 3-0. Spain will now play Germany in the finals on Sunday. After the game, we stopped for ice cream sundaes at McDonald's and went back to the hotel. Up early again for class. Today we had four hours of class. It was brutal, but with the help of spider solitaire, I made it through ...

Left the ****** UK weather behind and embrace the apparently global Euro-Warming. Arrive en Hesperange campsite, 5km from Luxembourg city and head straight to the pub. Its only fair having driven for 5 hours with a hyperactive excited 14 year old! Somehow, the said 14 year old managed to ...

... had found, however, is the second city in Goa state, 'Margo'. We continued on through the dusty city centre battling with the increasingly busy traffic. Every person and school kid that we passed waved us a cheery 'Hello'! We were obviously a novelty to them, particularly the sight of herself, wearing a string t-shirt, pedaling away furiously in a country where a woman's place is still seen as very much in the home, The traffic was now heavy with snarling trucks passing ...

... 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.