Le Pavillon Echternach

... 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.

... Roman ruins and the churches up close. Trier was very nice and I love the feeling there, the Roman baths were also really cool to see. We also had a great dinner in the main square of town. I had Pepper Steak and spetzlah. It was so good. The seats outside were great and I was able to people watch and really just embrace in the culture. Plus a little wine probe, wine tasting, helped a lot.

... 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 ...

... kebab, walk, frantic search for keys, Bella`s ecstatic greeting, internet blog. 11pm On the bus back from the Haan aiport, we met a couple from argentina. The old guy was so cute. He was always smiling. He was one of those people that radiated happiness so that everyone around him had to join in the joy. If they didnt and decided to treat him badly, he wouldnt notice anyway. Ignorance is Bliss. He spoke very little english but eventually ...

... hospital. But he told her that he was getting a stint and was going to be fine. This hit Caro pretty hard though, cuz damn, what an awful thing to hear, especially when you're so far from home. We went into town to get some dinner. We got Kabobs because they're cheap and delicious. Then we just walked around. It didn't appear to have much for night life. The streets were pretty empty. We found a big beautiful church and a very nice war monument/obelisk. Then we went ...

Luxembourg turned out to be one of the great suprises of this trip thus far. While not much of a tourist stop (though it should be) I found plenty to do in the Grand Duche. The old city center sits on a plateau accessed on all sides by substantial bridges spanning the rift between "the main land" and the island that is the city center. Within this rift lies ...

... in the Cathedral for healing but as we are practising nothings, Lucy's foot remained the way it was. Koln is a nice town. We had been on the river two years previously, and to return was good, but to see the Cathedral was better. Sadly though, out time on this trip in Germany was over. The border sign stated, welcome to the Netherlands, and as Germany is the centre of the European universe, we knew that we would be back

... 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.