The coach from Hahn Airport arrived in front of the main train station in Luxembourg City on Monday morning, so I had most of the day to walk around and explore. Factoid: Luxembourg is a tiny country with a land area about 82% the size of Rhode Island, the smallest US state.
I walked across the city to see the building attached to this tower, thinking it might be the Grand Ducal Palace. I looked up the not-so-exotic name later: the National Savings Bank Building.
I thought this would be a unique photo of the Place de la Constitution with the Pont Adolphe (the city's 105-year old "new bridge") in the background. When I looked up Luxembourg on-line after I got home though, I quickly found three or four versions of the same shot.
A fairy-tale image looking across the Pétrusse Valley toward the...National Savings Bank Building.
Base of the Passarelle viaduct (the city's "old bridge" - circa 1860) from the park which runs alongside the River Pétrusse (which was a trickle the day I visited).
One of the many one-way streets criss-crossing the city.
I couldn't readily find the name of this church, but it might be St. Michaels, dating back to 1688.
This looks like it would be a really fun public park for the neighborhood kids: No pets, no bikes, no eating and no playing games. Probably NO TALKING OR SMILING either. The steel bar fencing adds to the prison yard ambiance as well.
Since I'm not overly familiar with any of Luxembourg's three official languages (Luxembourgish, French & German), I was eternally grateful that the city installed a schematic for the non-readers explaining how to activate the walk signal for this (one-lane) crossing. The big green button by itself would have been
very confusing.
I walked across the city to see the building attached to this tower, thinking it might be the Grand Ducal Palace. I looked up the not-so-exotic name later: the National Savings Bank Building.
I thought this would be a unique photo of the Place de la Constitution with the Pont Adolphe (the city's 105-year old "new bridge") in the background. When I looked up Luxembourg on-line after I got home though, I quickly found three or four versions of the same shot.
A fairy-tale image looking across the Pétrusse Valley toward the...National Savings Bank Building.
Base of the Passarelle viaduct (the city's "old bridge" - circa 1860) from the park which runs alongside the River Pétrusse (which was a trickle the day I visited).
One of the many one-way streets criss-crossing the city.
I couldn't readily find the name of this church, but it might be St. Michaels, dating back to 1688.
This looks like it would be a really fun public park for the neighborhood kids: No pets, no bikes, no eating and no playing games. Probably NO TALKING OR SMILING either. The steel bar fencing adds to the prison yard ambiance as well.
Since I'm not overly familiar with any of Luxembourg's three official languages (Luxembourgish, French & German), I was eternally grateful that the city installed a schematic for the non-readers explaining how to activate the walk signal for this (one-lane) crossing. The big green button by itself would have been very confusing.
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Just got around to seeing your report on the visit to Germany. Interesting Trevor, Seems you have more stories when your well thought out plans don't stay on course. We have been very busy, 4 days of diabetic school and that is plus the 3 days of rehab where I am on a tred mill. ....gramps
Just got around to seeing your report on the visit to Germany. Interesting Trevor, Seems you have more stories when your well thought out plans don't stay on course. We have been very busy, 4 days of diabetic school and that is plus the 3 days of rehab where I am on a tred mill. ....gramps
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