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Weekend in Luxembourg

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March 29th 2014
Heathrow airport, early on a Saturday morning. "Where are you heading to?", asked the security man. "Luxembourg", I replied. "Why, there's nothing to see there". This view is probably shared by many people but we were determined to give it a go anyway and it turned out to be a great weekend away. Ruth had booked this as a surprise birthday trip for us but I had a suspicion she would ch ... read more

Europe » Luxembourg

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Founded in 963, Luxembourg became a grand duchy in 1815 and an independent state under the Netherlands. It lost more than half of its territory to Belgium in 1839, but gained a larger measure of autonomy. Full independence was attained in 1867. Overr... ... read more