In the afternoon we went by train from Paris to Luxembourg-small and quiet place in Europe. Three and half hours in the train and we saw from the window the beautiful countryside of France:little houses,rivers,grape fields.... Everything is quiet and have some special beauty inside.
The train station of Luxembourg was not far from the hotel,but the hotel was also a tiny small one.Well,quite hot inside the room like in the finnish sauna...Get away from the little steam room, we went to the Luxembourg city and try to find the castles,fortress in the map we got. But we were very dissappoited,some of them are under construction,we could not enter it, so walked through the city we climbed a little hill and got lost, finally on the top of the hill which is the EU conference center. But down to the valley was nice,cool in the forest and we saw some hidden fortress and churches,some of them even not on the map!
Old buildings
Tired! I did not expect to climb hills in Luxembourg,what I imagined was a little quiet place with old buildings and some rivers.... In here there are many old buildings and many hills,also many places are under constructions!
Dinner was good,we were in an Indian restaurant. We were the first customer there so chatted with the Indian owner a little bit. He is quite interested in us because just like us,his wife is from singapore and they are living in somewhere faraway from their country. Food was good and conversation was nice!
Back to the little sauna room,we used the little fan there but did not help much. I woke up at two in the morning because of the heat and sweared to myself I will never come back here in summer!
The next day weather kept being so good! We went to some casemates-tunnels that the spanish built to kill their enemies. These ones are the only left ones,since Luxembourg wanted to be independent they had to destroy most of the casemates. Dark and cool inside the casemates but somewhat I felt scaring,this is the place that the fighting and killing happened. But this is the place to prove the history.
Old buildings along the river
Luxembourg is nice except the heat! It does not like Paris so busy and noisy everywhere. It just kept its own style,it is a special place with histories!
Summer trip in Europe-2 Luxembourg
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Not all summers are hot in Luxemburg, mostely the weather in summer is: "could be"
Like could be hot, could be cold or could be sunny, could be raining.
But ther are nice old buildings. And nearly one age ago Luxemburg was a part of the Netherlands.