Luxembourg

Even though its the smallest country I know, Luxembourg is not to be missed. The country is a little smaller than the state of Rhode Island, but it is simply quaint. We visited Luxembourg City (the capitol city). Its only a couple of hours outside of Paris, and makes for a good day trip.

The train station is about a 20 minute walk from the center of town. We got a map from the tourist office (always our first stop!) And went to find wi-fi. There was a really nice open square with lots of resteraunts and wi-fi where we spent an hour enjoying people-watching and catching up online.

From there we went to the Bock Casements, which are the remains of a medieval fortress that once kept Luxembourg safe. It was used for cannons, weapons, and soilders (up to 50 cannons and 1200+ soldiers). The main casement area is roughly 110m long and 7m wide (the whole casements cover about 1100 sq. meters)

In WWII it and the other casements in the city served as a bomb shelter for up to 35,000 people.  Nowadays, it is essentially an underground tunnel system that we got to run around and play in! There were tunnels, caves, lookouts and soooo mannnny spiral stair cases. It was a complete maze! Some stair cases just led to dead ends, some tunnels ended in bricked off passages and overall it was really confusing and just awesome!

There is a well that is 154 ft deep and legend has it a mermaid lives in the bottom. Although we didn't see her, it was still really cool. The portholes had a wonderful view of the city and we narrowly escaped through the (even more) underground secret passage (which was used in case the main bridge was destroyed in battle).

Overall it was pretty interesting and down a couple of dark dead end stone passages, I caught orbs on my camera! Ghost Hunters much!? It was a good use of our time in Luxembourg.

After the casements we grabbed sandwiches from Subway (yeah, Subway!). I made up a new sandwich, instead of my usual two choices. Heather was very proud, that way even though it was Subway it counts as something new. :) the Subway also had an orange soda called Miranda! It was delicious.

The only thing I missed in Luxembourg was a postcard! We totally forgot to buy one on our way out! It is the only country I don't have one from. Sad day!

From Luxembourg we headed to Brussels, and here we be!

Safe Travels,
- Kit & Heather