weekend snapshot
Oh you wonderful spring weekend with drives in the country, bonfires with friends and wanders to waterfalls… you and me can hang out again soon.
Luxembourg
the chocolate house, luxembourg
One of the best things about moving to a new city is that you get to start over again with exploring and finding new favourite places. You have longer than a weekend or week’s holiday to find the places that the locals hang out in, but there’s also not that feeling of hurry – you…
Mothering Sunday and Bretzelsonnden
Dear UK readers: please view this as your three day warning that this coming Sunday is Mothering Sunday! Arrange appropriate gift/card/flowers now. You can thank me later. Everyone else: relax. You’ve got a few weeks longer before worrying about being disinherited for forgetting… This Sunday is a double celebration day. Yes, for all British children,…
charlie chaplin at the luxembourg philharmonie
Photo source: IMDB On Friday evening we headed up to the Kirchberg plateau (the part of Luxembourg with all the European institutions and other big shiny buildings) for our first concert at the Luxembourg Philharmonie. I’d bought us tickets to a live cinema concert, which happens just once a year here. Carl Davis, an American…
chasing away winter
The first Sunday in Lent is a special day in Luxembourg. It is known as Buergbrennen and is an old festival connected with the Spring solstice (which is actually not until March 21st) and is a way to chase away the winter and welcome spring again to the country. After the freezing temperatures of February, we…
Vianden
For the last afternoon of my in-laws visit we headed north again to Vianden. Now, you may have noticed that Luxembourg is not very big. Being just 84km long makes it one of the easiest countries to explore from top to bottom. On Monday we were about two thirds of the way up, so still…