Blogs from Luxembourg, Europe - page 17

Tiny tiny country. So small I even neglected to mention it when writing my Ardennes entry :D Ok, it's not as small as Vatican City, which happens to be the smallest country in the world, but it's about 1/4 the size of Puerto Rico, smaller than even Rhode Island. However quite powerful. Over 200 banks, many of them categorized as "Secret" or "Private". While higher in taxes in some areas of business, the many allowances, deductions & exemptions are an interesting draw to many concerning the Luxembourg tax regime. As one can imagine they are presently VERY busy with their attempts to handle the financial crises across the globe. However, while the building slowdown becomes evident in even the more financially viable countries, this little country shows no slowing in bank building. Huge structures springing up ... read more

Well it didn´t take us long to make our way through Luxembourg, being that it is smaller than the smallest US state. As we experienced Luxembourg City and the beautiful countryside, we were intruiged by the mixture of French and German language and culture. What language do they speak here? While sitting on a bus we saw three: most of the ads were in French, all of the signs telling you to 'be good!' were in German, and the "Bus Stop" sign was a mysterious hybrid. In fact, the official language is Luxembourgish as well as French and German. Now, I (Sara) learned French in High School and some German in College. I suck at both, but if I could speak with a mixture of whatever word, French or German, comes to mind first, I could ... read more

From Heli’s place we drove back up towards Salzburg then turned left into Germany, unfortunately we did not fill up before crossing the border because petrol was 10c dearer here. Our route was to take us all the way along the A8 through Munich, past Stuttgart and through Karlsruhe along the southern part of Germany and into The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. The traffic on the autobahn was quite heavy and the number of trucks was incredible. Dobby cruised along at a steady 110 quite happily passing the trucks, and it was impossible for anyone to do more than around 130 in bursts due to the traffic anyway. It was worse going east as the slow lane for a large part of the time was bumper to bumper trucks crawling along at no more than 30, ... read more

Greetings all, from Luxembourg. There is not much to report about today as we didn’t really do much except travel on Autobahns all day from Ulm in Germany to Luxembourg in Luxembourg. I saw a Ferrari on the way and thought I’ll take a photo of that and put that on the blog to keep the masses around the world unfortunate enough to subscribe happy!! Other than that I didn’t take any photos because the autobahn is not that interesting. Over and out. ... read more

I know I said I wouldn't put those online, but some of these pics are too fun....these are some of a great week, with great friends, around Europe. Family life is definitively great! Enjoy, we do.... And for comments on each pic...just send me an email....and yes there are a lot of Christophe involved....smile!... read more