As the
storm-clouds loomed overhead and lightening struck in the distance we
continued on to Luxemburg; arriving quite late at night. This is where
the trouble began. With no directions and no booking we proceeded to
drive aimlessly around the city for about 2 hours looking for a hotel
(big fail Lonely Planet – their recommendation didn’t exist anymore...
but we did illegally download the guides so I suppose we should also
shoulder the blame!!). Finally we found a place near the airport that
suited our budget and gave us a place to recover from the drive.
So
onto Luxemberg... We want to move here so bad!! It is clean, prosperous
and everyone seems affluent (the cars are so fancy I can’t even
pronounce their names!). We drove to the old city; parked; and grabbed
bikes so we could ride from place to place. The city is breathtaking....
I loved everything about it from the river to the mammoth bridges to
the cute pastry shops and touristy crap on every corner.
From
Luxemburg it was a short but increadibly scenic drive to Diekirch –
mainly so we could checkout the ‘Musee National d’Histoire Militaire’ – a
Museum dedicated to Luxemburg’s reluctant contribution to WW2 (think
‘Battle of the Ardennes’) . The drive and the town were amazing and we
highly recommend that everyone put Luxemburg on their ‘to visit’ list.
From
there it was onto the German border near Trier before stopping for the
night at a little town called Schweich – so cute and perfect to sit by
the river with a drink and a sandwich dinner after a long day
As
a footnote – we also discovered the joy of ‘Real’; a chain store bigger
then Bunnings, selling everything you can imagine and cheap as chips.
They had a whole aisle dedicated to Milka chocolate – my fave thing in
Europe!! I think I am going to get fat on this holiday! Haha I know
what you are thinking – not exactly ‘buying local’ and it is hardly
regionally authentic – but it IS incredibly convenient to find a store
like that when you are on the road all day and can’t be bothered looking
for a snack or more soap or whatever.
