L'auberge de Marville

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 ...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Hope everyone is having a great time eating turkey and watching football back home :). I'm in a country where we aren't subjected to the awful sport of football fortunately. Unfortunately they don't typically celebrate Thanksgiving either. Luckily I am reasonably close to one of my best friends from the states and we were able to celebrate turkey day in typical American fashion. This morning I travelled for 4 hours by train to ...

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 ...

... most was visiting the National Museum of History and Art. Not so much for what was on display but mostly because of the way it was displayed and the building itself. The museum had a ground floor and went up five floors. But it also went down five floors. Each floor down was a period of time back in the city. What made it amazing was they way they displayed this. Imagine a large square hole, say 75 yards wide and 75 yards deep. Now imagine a see through building placed into ...

(47 miles) Today we were definitely slowed down by the rain. I guess it's just not that fun to ride a bike in the rain. So we stopped in Sedin. A town with the largest medieval castle in Europe. We ate an Americain, which is a sandwich eaten in Belgium and the north of France. It's hamburger patties and french fries stuffed into a Baguette with some tasty choices ...

... served and even convinced himself that the 99 year old bar woman fancied him as she gave him extra large vodkas! Apres Bier, i cooked a wonderful campstove goulash, drank more and more, and played a bit a volleyball with some weirdo french guys and an overfriendly family from Finland.

... a dump I don't know but i didn't wait to find out. I leg it out of his out door jax and back up the lane.........still nursing a full bladder!!!! Herself was none too impressed with my story. We set off on the return journey and it took several more turn-offs and lanes before I finally found a spot in a ditch which Icould call my own!! The joys of living in a country of a million people.!!! We make it back to Colva 40 minutes later, exhausted but happy to be still in one piece ...

Our family travelled to Luxembourg for a week for a work conference. Was it just me or was there a bank on every corner? I think the trip was quite expensive for my parents.
Assuming it was because there are so many languages spoken in ...

Saturday 23/3 -Travelled from Paris to Luxembourg dept 11.03 arr 14.44. Had a quick look around Luxembourg to get acquainted with the city, then found a church for Sunday mass.

Sunday 24/3 - After mass (in German) at 10am, we had a look around ...