Blogs from Luxembourg, Europe - page 18

Luxembourg ….And the 4 hour train ride! Well…we all had separate cars on the train to Luxembourg. Jeff, Chuck, MB, Willis and I all shared a car. The boys watched a movie while MB and I both listened to music and enjoyed the scenery. After the movie was done Willis was getting a bit antsy, so I gave him Jeff’s camera and told him to have fun! He got some incredible pictures of the others sleeping, etc. Then, he decided to play a few practical jokes on Jeroen. He managed to find an empty Gin bottle and fill it with water and put it next to Jeroen’s head. He also made a blanket out of toilet paper for him, and stuffed toilet paper in his shoes. Needless to say, Jeroen woke up to all of us ... read more

Luxembourg was not a part of my original itinerary but is so worth it! The capital city is called Luxembourg in the country of Luxembourg (go figure); it is a city built layer upon layer with steep climbs from the "valley floor" to the main bustle of town center, which affords nice viewpoints of the below rooftops and church steeples. The roofs are all heavily slanted to allow for the weather (I assume), and all bear a consistent black tiling to make for very pretty pictures. Also, the Luxembourg skies are very clean and apparently characterized by huge puffy white clouds (which change at the drop of a hat, brief spurts of rainfall very common); these clouds in San Diego mean either it is going to rain that day, or is the morning after an evening ... read more

El castillo Beaufort, también conocido localmente como "Burg Befort", está situado en la ciudad que lleva su mismo nombre, en el este de Luxemburgo. Está situado al lado de un bosque muy frondoso y a sus pies hay un lago lleno de patos. El castillo fue construido en los inicios del siglo 10 como un modesto fuerte rectangular sobre una colina. Se calcula que anteriormente en ese lugar hubo una pequeña fortificación en el siglo 9, desde la cual se protegía a la abadía de Echternach, y hasta un fuerte romano unos siglos antes. Alrededor de 1150 los muros del castillo fueron reforzados, y en 1192 Walter von Wiltz fue nombrado Primer Caballero de Beaufort. En 1348 la familia Orley pasó a ser la dueña del castillo, y lo agrandaron considerablemente. En 1477 el castillo fue ... read more

So clearly I've been here quite a few weeks already, but I wanted to do this awhile ago and I'm finally getting around to it. I got to Lux on May 15th and we had an orientation weekend where we went around Differdange (the city in Luxembourg where I'm staying) and Luxembourg city. That weekend we went and saw the American and German burial sights of the Battle of the Bulge. We also went on a walking tour around Luxembourg city so we could start to orient ourselves if we ever make it around that area (about a 45 minute train ride to the city from where I'm staying). We also went on a wine tasting tour and we had a group BBQ at a restaurant. During this trip we stay with host families. Mine speaks ... read more

Bonjour! Sorry it has been a few days since the last update,i have been out of service region for the internet access for the blackberry... Anyway, since i last left you, we travelled from, Lichtenstein to Luxembourg via a teeny town called Triberg. Triberg is in the Black Forrest in Germany, which isn't really that black, but definitely a forrest! also very pretty yet sparked a nu,ber of renditions of Peter and the Wolf by mum hehe... Why did we go to this town you ask???? Well i did anyway! In Triberg they have a store which contains ,ore than 1000 cuckoo clocks!!!! it is also ho,e to the largest cuckoo clock in the world which we hung around until midday to watch go cuckoo... was pretty cool... We decided that since we were in the ... read more