Logis Hotel De La Sure - Restaurant Comte Godefroy Esch-sur-Sure

... and eye shades have never felt just that good.
Quotes:
'It is such a novelty making ones own bed...' Hols as we make our own beds using packs of sheets.
'At least I will die quick if you fall on me...' Jamie to Ed as he took the bottom bunk bed.

Onto Saturday and our Lux exploration...bri arrives hundover after a 4am dance session. We head off in the rain to the best hot chocolate in the world. Chunks of solid chocolate the size of ice ...

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 ...

... sun was setting, and I was pretty tired, so I drove to Bastogne, and checked in to a hotel I like to use there, the Melba. It’s not expensive, right in the center of town, and has free wifi. Bastogne, of course, is where American troops, surrounded by the last-gasp German Arden Offensive (the Battle of the Bulge) around Christmas 1944, refused to surrender. When a German officer was sent in blindfolded to ask the Americans to surrender, General Anthony McAuliffe replied “ ...

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’s supposed to take about 6 hours to get to Luxembourg. We’ll see how it progresses.

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.

Sunday With a bank holiday I wanted to make sure I made the most of the weather so I checked out a destination that had been recommended to me after a plea on the facebook Luxembourg network! I went up to the lakes near Esch Sur Sure - the furthest north I'd been so far. After a drive around trying to find access to the lakes I decided to settle for a nice view of it instead and stopped in ...

... decided to catch a bus to a nearby town to snap some photos and I was set on getting to Brussels still before my appointment with Amsterdam on my birthday in just a couple of days from here. I refused to spend another night in the hostel in Luxembourg, because they are the only hostel in town, there rates are not competitive and their charges where outrageous. I walked Julia to the bus station and headed back to the hostel to grab my gear and go. By 4pm I was off to Brussels.

... holes. Ed hit 94 (Rishi and Chi-Hua, Ed wants you to know this!) and I hit 115. We had betted against our parents (with handicaps) and we ended up winning two holes. After a quick lunch at the club house, we headed south to a nice hot pool swim, dinner, and a good night sleep.

... 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.