{"id":2325,"date":"2013-07-21T18:30:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T17:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2026-05-24T08:11:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:11:45","slug":"germany-yesterday-belgium-tomorrow-so-it-must-be-luxembourg-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/2013\/07\/21\/germany-yesterday-belgium-tomorrow-so-it-must-be-luxembourg-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Yesterday, Belgium Tomorrow, So It Must Be Luxembourg Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday morning, after locating Rodney’s second pair of missing sunglasses, we caught the bus in to Luxembourg City Centre.\u00a0 I think I managed to confuse the bus driver and many other locals later on, with my complete muddle of languages; I\u2019m really not sure what I\u2019m even supposed to be speaking in Luxembourg, it seems to be a complete mix of French and German.\u00a0 I\u2019m trying to cover it with a \u2018merci danke\u2019 and half the time I\u2019m just confused and tongue tied, even English is going out the window\u2026!<\/p>\n

When we got off the bus we walked along to the Place de la Constitution and hopped on board a petit train for a one-hour tour around the city.\u00a0 It is an unusual city and really hard to work out which direction you are heading in without a map and checking the sun\u2019s direction.\u00a0 It\u2019s a complete tangle of valleys and promontories; there are two rivers and numerous ruins of old forts and battlements and every so often you get a view across to the Kirchberg area where all the modern buildings housing bank headquarters, the Chamber of Commerce, the National Sports Centre and various political headquarters have been built.<\/p>\n

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Looking towards the Kirchberg area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Cathedrale Notre Dame steeples<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After our bumpy ride around town, we wandered back to the areas that had looked interesting and roamed through the old part of the city to the Place d\u2019 Armes.\u00a0 A huge TV screen had been set up in front of the Mairie and we wondered why so many people were engrossed in watching it.\u00a0 As it was lunchtime, we settled down at a seat outside Brasserie La Lorraine for a seafood lunch and asked the very multi-lingual waitress what was happening on the news broadcast.\u00a0 It turned out to be the coronation of the new King of Belgium, Philip I, after the abdication of his father King Albert II.\u00a0 So we ate our meal while listening to the cheering, flag waving crowds on the telly.\u00a0 When it finished, a couple of very good buskers continued the entertainment for us.<\/p>\n

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The Bock Casements, underground galleries carved in to the rock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Looking south from the Corniche<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We followed lunch with a couple more hours of meandering and found loads more painted elephants, just like there were in Trier the day before, and I really like the way they brighten up little corners around the cities.\u00a0 We ate our ice creams for the day while walking under the trees down in the Vall\u00e9e de la P\u00e9trusse and through the pretty Park Ed Klein.\u00a0 Luxembourg really is a nice city, especially with the sun shining on its neat buildings, ruins and cobbled streets.\u00a0 Finally, with not a whiff of cloud in the sky and temperatures well in the thirties, we plodded back to the bus stop and returned to Eileen, to sit in the shade and relax in the very nice campsite for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n

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With my dancing friends in the Place du Theatre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday morning, after locating Rodney’s second pair of missing sunglasses, we caught the bus in to Luxembourg City Centre.\u00a0 I think I managed to confuse the bus driver and many other locals later on, with my complete muddle of languages; I\u2019m really not sure what I\u2019m even supposed to be speaking in Luxembourg, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8373,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/8373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petersphotogallery.com\/rodneyandlaura\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}