Ibis Luxembourg Aeroport Findel

... 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.

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 ...

... 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 ...

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 ...

... they only take cash not cards - that seems to happen a lot here. Friday After work, I went to Happy Hour with a couple of girls from work, and then on for a very quick drink in the Pyg before going home. I had planned to do go out a bit more with Melanie but the weather really changed - after work we sat outside on the terrace in Eats Time enjoying some sun but by about 10pm a storm had started with rain and lightening and neither of us ...

... church service this Sunday. I am also hoping I get to go to the protestant church service too. After our tour, we went to class. Class is seriously sucking right now. None of us understand the guy and he doesn't seem to understand our level of German. He basically teaches to blank stares. I have been so frustrated that I started crying in class today. I feel like crying all the time now and I have decided it is not from being sad. It is because of ...

... and they managed to drag this out for several hours! It was horrible! In addition, we were all so tired from waking up that early and being perpetually sleep deprived that everyone in the group was falling asleep....but trying to conceal it so that the ushers wouldn't come by and wake us up. It was really rough. The provided us with ear pieces so that we could hear the live translation of any of the parts of the case that were in languages other than English. My saving ...

... 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.